Chefke's — Restaurant in Lisse

Overall friendly, but food quality and wait time for service were horrible. Would never go back and would not recommend. Details below.

Had an early reservation for dinner at 5:30 as we have 2 young kids. Initial welcome was friendly. The waitress helped translate the menu, which was helpful. She recommended the turkey with mushroom sauce, which my wife ordered. Instead, I ordered the salmon. For the adult orders, the menu offered a 3 or 4 course option (in retrospect, a la carte would've been better).

Soup and bread comes first, which was actually tasty and with sharing the soup with the kids everyone stayed occupied and happy. Our salads came next along with the kids' food. We ate the salads quickly, but then sat for well over an hour as we watched our kids slowly finish their meal and move into the restless stage.

After finally inquiring about our entrees, they brought out 2 orders of turkey with mushroom sauce. When I pointed out that I ordered salmon, the waitress initially questioned my recall on the matter before asking if I wanted the order corrected. With 2 restless kids an hour and a half into dinner, I told her I'd just eat it. The turkey was clearly an artificial patty of sorts crafted from turkey parts and the mushroom sauce was eerily similar to condensed cream of mushroom soup. Very disappointing, particularly since the waitress had been pushing it.

Now, both ours and the kids' orders came with dessert. Not much choice here. Kids got the "kid's ice cream", which was a premade portion of vanilla ice cream on a layer of cookie covered in rainbow sprinkles. Adults chose either vanilla with chocolate sauce or carmel ice cream. While I applaud the fact that they appeared to have made their own carmel sauce, it was clearly burned.

As soon as the check finally made it out I threw down cash and we beat a hasty retreat. You won this round, Chefke's. There will...

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