SEN VIET VIETNAMESE CUISINE — Restaurant in Amsterdam

If you want the best authentic true to taste of Vietnamese southern (Saigon) Pho, here is the best restaurant in Amsterdam (maybe also in Holland) where you can find your appetite satisfied👌. Though the restaurant is a bit tiny, the quality of the food is really what you can count on! From a conversation with chef Liem and also the owner (who is very kind and friendly), his Pho stock which contains of oxtail and beef bones is slow cooked in about 10hour long. No wonder why the flavor of the stock is really rich and traditional! Our all time favorite starters we never miss are Goi Cuon Tom & Cha Gio Sen Viet!!! Every bite of the Goi Cuon mingled well with the black sauce can refresh your starving soul for no joke! All ingredients are stored cold in the fridge and freshly wrapped at order. Cha Gio is always exact good browny crunchy with lovely warm flavor. The food quality here is as consistent as our satisfaction every time we eat.

We have tried Pho and Vietnamese dishes in other Viet restaurant in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Groningen, and further to Germany, Belgium, or lately in Barcelona, no where could satisfy us! The Pho stock tasted like cooked with bouillon, sometimes even stinky. Not yet to mention you might be fulled around with so-called Vietnamese restaurant but owned by Chinese. "Saigon Cà Phê Restaurant" in Amstelveen Stadhart, or the "Little Saigon" in China Town/Redlight district are examples.

Yesterday we came back from Spain, and it is Vietnamese Tet Holiday (Lunar NY), we went straight here with hope to have some homeland flavor to celebrate. Regardless that his wife has been back to Indonesia also for Lunar NY there, Liem worked alone but he didn't disappoint us with his service! Everything we ordered was served very quick on the table. Been customers of Sen Viet for years, today we must write a good review they deserves! We are grateful that we have an authentic Viet restaurant to eat now and then. Ps/ we forgot to take photos of Pho the best dish we recommend, sorry we were hungry souls 😅. Then you can discover...

First of all: the food is delicious, the Chef is courteous and friendly. The young woman at the counter absolutely disinterested, unfriendly and possibly xenophobic against people of Afro-origin. When she took our orders I could see the distaste on her face when my husband, who us black with braids, told her his order. This was five minutes in. She just throws the food on the table and barely says anything. My husband dropped a chopstick, when stood up to pick it up she just sat there behind the counter with her earbuds in, looking at her phone. We both knew she saw it as she started to smirk but still looked down. It was vile. The other customer dropping a chopstick didn't get this response. To our surprise she all but curtsied at the Americans ordering food to go and we were reminded of Faulty Towers' Basil. When they came back to pick up their food they received a bottle of wine on the house. For the amount spent? We indeed had a Groupon voucher but if you disregard Groupon customers just ERASE yourself from that website. Disgusting demeanour and favouritism. And that which was meant as a birthday dinner. All the best Sen Viet, good luck with that young lady who absolutely...

Came in at 15:00 and the place was empty. We were the only ones there. The food was really nice and we enjoyed it a lot however it was on the expensive end, if the service was better it would’ve been justified but as it is right now I don’t believe so. The service was alright but the staff were just hanging out in the kitchen since there was pretty much nothing for them todo except occasionally checking up on us. The cook did come out to greet us which is why they got three stars instead of two. We had shrimp spring rolls which were nice, the chicken curry with rice which is my favorite curry that I’ve eaten at a restaurant and the crispy pork belly with...