Saigon Caphe CS — Restaurant in Amsterdam

The worst experience ever! Super baby unfriendly! Super rude waitress!!! We are four plus a baby, so we required a baby chair for the baby. The waitress immediately said we had to sit in a table which is next to the door and the baby had to sit behind us and in front of the door. Otherwise we can leave. Inside there were many tables available. We tried to explain that the baby would be afraid if he could not see our faces and it would be too cold for the baby to sit in front of the door. We asked for one four person table inside and the waitress said that specific small area was not open. But there was no closing sign at all ! So we asked to put two small tables which are in the open area together, the waitress said those two tables were only for two persons and refused to move them together. She was super rude and tried to kick us out all the time. I have been to many restaurant with the baby in the Netherlands and other countries and this is the worst experience ever !!! If you would like to try Vietnam's food, I would recommend all other Saigon Caphe locations expect for this one in central station. All the other locations have the same food but way...

I am not knowledgeable about Vietnamese food, so take everything I write with a grain of salt.

Tonight we visited this place with my friend for dinner. I ordered 2 Chicken Spring Rolls, 2 Prawn Spring Rolls, a fried softshell crab and a beer.

First they delivered 8 spring rolls, 4 from each. I didn't want to make it too big of a deal, math is hard sometimes, I know... But the real problem started when I couldn't tell the difference between chicken and prawn spring rolls they were all very tasteless. And I have had spring rolls before, so I kinda knew what to expect.

Then they served softshell crab, it didn't taste at all, could have been fried paper as well. While I was complaining, my friend suggested I should try the sauce that came with the crab. Oh my god... it tasted like fermented dirty sea water.

Before writing this comment, I tasted a couple of things from the fridge, just to make I'm not sick or anything and my tastebuds work normally... so yes I can still taste.

Again, maybe the Vietnamese food is not for me. But man... I'll mourn for a long time for the 39.50 Euros I spent for...

I always give a place a second chance, but when the second experience is worse then the first bad experience it's time for a bad review. The only thing Vietnamese is the name and the pretense of Vietnamese food. It misses out totally on the delicious Vietnamese cuisine. Whether it's the banh mi with sausage which was very blend with a slight taste of fish (??) and without pickles and coriandre but with some strange yoghurt (??) sauce, the tofu with rice which was done in a Chinese way (wonder where the cook is from? Or the che or ice coffee, which had nothing to with the originals. No ice in the ice coffee is quite peculiar, no condensed milk visible. Also the che looked colourful, but tasted like pop soda without the pop. In short, my advice is stay away. Unless you're a tourist which is willing to pay way too much money for strange food. The service is also so so... For some reason the staff is not able to speak Dutch (in Holland), which is a sign this has turned into a tourist trap. Please have a proper restaurant here, the view...