Spaghetteria Pasta-bar — Restaurant in Amsterdam

Update: since you asked for details on the rating, I am writing why the experience was not very good. There were two things that kind of ruined the experience. First thing, we waited a long time for the dishes to arrive. It should be noted that we were told it would take time, but we probably did not expect how long it would really take. Even until a waiter approached us for the first time to ask what we wanted, it took a while.

The second thing was more significant. Due to our lack of understanding (we do not speak Dutch) we ordered a spaghetti dish for the little girl which was very spicy. We eat a lot in Italian restaurants, and until this time, it hasn't happened to us. She really couldn't eat the dish. When one of the waitresses came to us to ask if all good, we told her about the dish and that our daughter couldn't eat. The waitress was very nice and offered us another dish for the girl. We were very happy for the kindness and generous service and at this point we didn't care that it took a long time for the dishes to arrive. Because the attitude was excellent and we felt that we were understood. But to our surprise, when the bill arrived we found out that she did offer a different dish but at our expense! It was really annoying. If I want to buy another dish for my daughter, I know how to do it, I don't need fake empathy for that. We were sure, and this is a very reasonable expectation from a good restaurant that she took us into consideration and so that we would be satisfied, she offered another dish at the expense of the house, but this was not the case. In that case, it is better to simply say that you are sorry for the experience and hope that the other dishes were good or something like that, but not to suggest that we buy...

Will do a negative review after a while. I did not have a great experience here for 3 reasons;

1-Service: middle of the course, one of the waiters asked “how is your food?”. I answered like “meh, so so, not enjoying that much”. You know what happened? NOTHING. Soooo why are you asking if you are not gonna do anything about it? We just looked at each other and that is it. First time in years I left a restaurant without a tip.

2- Food: I ordered spaghetti because (come on) look at the name of the restaurant. Disappointed big time. No different than what you can cook at home. I’ve been in Italy couple times, I don’t expect that level but if you call yourself an italian restaurant and name yourself spaghetteria, I would’ve expected better taste. Moreover, portions are small compared to the price and they serve pasta with bread. First time I’ve seen bread next to pasta.

3- Price: Main dishes (different kind of pasta) prices vary between 17-20 Euro which is a bit overpriced to me if you are not like fine dine restaurant.

Overall, nice athmosphere but bad service/food. If you are an Italian restaurant but bad with pasta?...

Unique in its simplicity. A place to eat and socialize. No all night fine dining with table cloths. Small menu with tasteful dishes. We had bruschetta as appetizer which I can prepare better (bread could be softer, tomatoes need some additional taste and mushrooms lack truffle taste). As a main we had gnocchi with salmon and spaghetti with seafood (spaghetti vongole). Both very tasteful and sufficient size. Tiramisu to share (large portion) and a scroppino to top it off. Unfortunately no ristretto available (an Italian restaurant without ristretto?). Friendly service, relaxed atmosphere, good price quality. We certainly...