TonTon Club Westergas — Restaurant in Amsterdam

The concept: Arcade gaming combined with dinner and drinks. I'll just give 5 stars for the concept alone. It sounds awesome and it actually is, depending on your expectations of either arcade or dinner/drinks.

Let's start with the arcade. It's on top of the stairs and has about 15-20 games predominately Japanese. You can buy coins at the bar for €1 each. As I went there with my kids, we had a blast. Dancing, fighting, pinball, japanese table throwing etc. Prepare to loose money if you bring kids. Some games were broken or broke down while playing but staff always gave back new coins to play another game.

The place is really chaotic and noisy as well. But what do you expect of an arcade? Which brings us to the restaurant. Noisy and chaos is fine in an arcade, but not in a restaurant in my opinion. People are walking constantly between the tables, hitting chairs or tables in the process. Perhaps they could have done something to build a separate entrance for the arcade, so people don't have to cross the isles in the restaurant on their way to the arcade?

Service was almost non existent at our table, so ordering had to be done at the bar if you really want it.

At some point we wanted to order some bites (around 5PM) but we were told that the kitchen was too busy preparing dinner... Eventually we did get some bites but the only choice we had was sea weed and duck spring rolls. Fine for me, but not for the kids. So, you could ask yourself, if they really expect to have any kids visiting.

Arcade in a restaurant: awesome! Restaurant itself: could have been a lot better...

Food (spring rolls): 4 Service: 2 (extra points for service on arcade) Price: 3 Interior...

Drinks are 4-5 stars. Arcades and boardgames 4 stars. Neither are cheap. Upstairs where the arcades are can get hot in summer due to lack of AC.

Food and service regrettably has steeply gone downhill over the years.

Most food came out very fast and was bland tasting, lack of texture, not too hot. Yakitori very small and drenched in sauce. Burgers came out last so were perhaps the freshest. There were many vegan options.

Service is rough. Personnel is young, hip looking and generally kind, but it’s hard to get attention to your table, dinner mains were brought to table minutes apart, cutlery and napkins were only brought to the table when asked after mains were put down but insufficient for amount of guests, late in clearing the table. Personnel takes their smoke breaks next to the building/terrace.

Remains a fun place to visit with early and late teens! As adults, come for drinks and games, but...

The place itself is great. Had really nice food there before too. This week however, our experience was not good. Waited at table for 15/20 minutes. Waiter ignored us, did not greet us, did not bring menu, did not ask to take our drinks. He gestured that he would come to our table at one point, and even ended up at our table for one second, but then turned around and went on on to help other people every single time without even excusing himself. Rarely have I experienced such rude service. We left without eating anything. He saw, but did not say anything. How weird! He must have had an off-day, but even on an off-day, acknowledging someone's presence and welcoming them should not be too much trouble. The place wasn't even full. Anyway, would still recommend for the great arcade, and also, the service we had previously there...