FREDDY’S Leiden — Restaurant in Leiden

I had dinner alone in this restaurant when I had limited time between trains. The service was friendly and fast.

The food however, was unexpectedly bad and didn’t match with what’s on the menu. I ordered salmon and the listed ingredients on the menu were: soy, ginger, radish, red onion, sugar snaps, spring onion, and pepper. So you can imagine my shock as I was served salmon on top of seaweed water. The spoon was also brought in the last minute - so I had no idea I would be getting anything watery until the last minute. Since I can’t stand the smell and taste of seaweed, I tried to rescue the salmon as much as possible from the water to eat, and ordered bread. Fries and bread were good though!

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I came here again between trains for a drink and it was pretty good! Also, service was friendly and fast again, and this time I also noticed how nice the atmosphere is....

Overall the atmosphere is great. The decor is exciting, music wasn't too loud, and the service was good. However, the food was a disappointment. We first tried the smoked burrata and steak tartar. Both tasted fine, but lacked any character. We also had two mains - the chicken and the freddy's burger (though the pictured item is the Burger Rossini because they brought the wrong burger and I only realized after taking the first bite). As with the appetizers, there was nothing unique about either item. The beer chutney on the Freddy's burger was delicious, but the flavors of the cheese and bacon were lacking. The chicken was probably the best thing we ate, but again the description did not match the taste - a bit dry and lightly seasoned. Overall, I think it's a good place for borrel or maybe lunch, but there are better options in...

We ate here once and had drinks a few nights on our recent trip to Lieden. I really liked this bar. it's quite large and a different style to many of the places more towards the centre of Lieden which are on average much smaller and more cosy but the atmosphere in here is great. The food was not the best out there, but for the money I felt it was really good (I had a burger). The drinks are great and the service is really good. They have a microbrewery on site & I think they were serving some beers from this. I had the 'triple' from their speciality beer selection, and it was very good. Just avoid the cocktails, they aren't great, but this seems to be a thing in all of the places we visited in Lieden. They are made very, how do I put it, '1990s'. e.g The Porn Star Martini's don't come with Champagne or proper passion...