Sazanka — Restaurant in Amsterdam

We had a great experience at Sazanka.

The Service is excellent, starting from a nice welcome by the waiter from the reception. We were there to celebrate our anniversary. The waiter first confirmed our reservation and congrats to us. During the diner, the staff are friendly, checking with us is everything okay, how is the serving speed, would we like to have a chill break before having the dessert etc. Right before we left, the staff congrats us again, really sweet. Our chief is great, she is kind, keep smiling while I cannot imagine how heavy the work she is doing, constantly cooking for us for 3 hours almost.

The Atmosphere is really great too. It has soft lighting, decorated with traditional Japanese style.

Now come to the most important part for me. The FOOD, it is amazing. We chose the Classic menu. Started with Tuna tataki (I am too focus on the food and forgot to take picture for it). It has beautifully caramelized crust but super tender inside. Then come with Seasalt crusted sea bass. The crust looks interesting too, it looks like puffed pancake, asked the chief, it is 90% salf and 10% whisked egg. The fish filet stays juicy with the Seasalt crust on top. The chief bake the fish skin separately, make it super crispy (I love chips, also fish chips) The 3rd course is Canadian lobster with Yuzu garlic butter. Beside those 3 words: lobster + garlic + butter, what do we need to say more. (Spoil alert: it come with the fire show) Wagyu steak is definitely the high light of the course. It come with 3 "sauce", himalayan salt, Japanese wasabi and one more (I forgot the name, but that's my favorite match with the Wagyu among all 3) Its provide a bit freshness to compensate well with the grease of Waygu. Btw it come with grilled zucchini and paprika too (I love grilled vegetables!!!!) It also come with some baked Wagyu fat part too. I expect it would be crispy, but the bigger pieces is not crispy enough though (small details) The Chicken fried rice served together with the Wagyu. Do not get my wrong, it is tasty too, but having it together with Wagyu, I could not finish it eventually. Personally I am not a fan of having rice together with steam The desert: Sazanka pancake (Dorayaki, one my favorite sweets, I love red bean paste ) the Japanese ice cream served with it is Matcha icecream. Personally, I do not like dessert to be too sweet, so leave the syrup aside. The Dorayaki is perfect with Matcha together Extra: we also got an extra dessert on the house for the...

We had dinner at sazanka , my wife and I were celebrating our mariage.

The food was excellent, as was the service. Top quality ingredients like lobster, wagyu and bluefin tuna. The food was prepared in an excellent and professional way.

The service was also impecable, as we are used to after visiting Japan multiple times.

A special mention to the sommelier, she was truly remarkable and knowledgable, enthousiastically telling all the ins and outs regarding the excellent wines and sake.

What we really did not like was the fact that you have to share the table with complete strangers! You are seated very close to eachother and you have zero privacy during dinner.

When I made the reservation I had specifically requested some privacy due to the special nature of our visit , but upon arrival we were told that it would be a shared table.

We have visited tapanyaki restaurants in Tokyo, and over there every table had its own tepanyaki heating plate. The chefs walked from table to table to prepare the food and when they were finished with your table they went over to other tables to prepare the food of the other customers. Privacy means EVERYTHING to the Japanese and it is one of the many reasons why we love Japan so much.

I dont mind paying 600 euro for a meal, but I really expect privacy in return.

One of the persons sitting within 80 centimeters of us was visibly ill and coughing constantly. His wife was feeling his forehead to check for fever.

Since I specifically requested privacy when I made the reservation I expected the restaurant would adhere to my request or inform me of the forced shared seating. Had I known this would be the case I would have opted for another...

(book in advance, don’t wear shorts)

Took my girlfriend here for her birthday, our baby was being rather fussy so I had to take him for a few laps to calm him down throughout the meal, but the staff were so accommodating of our needs and the chef purposefully slowed down to make sure we had the best experience possible while we tended to the newborn. Cannot recommend this place enough. A little bit outside my usual budget, without a doubt, but worth every cent. The sake sommelier was excellent, management made sure our baby wasn’t in a busy area which resulted in us essentially having a private chef, and the waiter was attentive and exceedingly polite throughout. And if all of the above wasn’t enough, the food was unbelievable. We had one classic and one seasonal menu: the seasonal menu was no reflection of its slightly lower price than the classic menu: almost every single dish in the seasonal menu was both mine and my girlfriend’s favourite (except for the wagyu beef on the classic menu, of course). If you’re looking for a really good experience, delicious food, or just want to shell out a little bit of money on being treated like royalty for a couple of hours, go...