Due Tempi — Restaurant in Uithoorn

Had been invited to a dear friends 50 th birthday bash yesterday. We were pleasantly surprised by the beautiful interior and the warm welcome by the staff. We we accompanied to our table where a nice basket of assorted fresh Italian breads with olives, pesto and yummy bruschettas awaited us. A nice glass of bubbly was served as the owner of the restaurant told us a wonderful and humerus story of Marie Antoinette and why ladies were served the Prosecco in a champagne glass and the gents out of a flute. Very interesting and had a good laugh! Thanx for that up front! The appetizer was amazingly flavorful, very tasty and with carefully chosen details for the eyes as well as the tongue. The in-between scropetto ice cold, heavenly lemony and resfreshing! Main course was authentic ( we chose the meatballs ) with all the flavors of Italy inside a plate! Soooo yummy!!! The dessert was also excellent, lava cake runny inside, baked to the point outside topped with an outstanding ice cream. Tiramisu also very very good. The wines to every single course accompanied each dish just perfectly, carefully chosen and a pure delight! All in all a wonderful experience, outstanding food and a super nice staff! We will definately come back-we live outside the NL and decided it’s worth to take another trip back to Uithoorn to eat soooo well again- and can highly recommend the Esplanade...

Edit in response to business reply:

Yes of course I am reviewing the right business. The point is that you do not display your ice-cream prices where your queuing customers can see them. This is very unhelpful and is not something I have encountered before.

I can try to make this easier for you to understand with an example. A family is standing in the queue and the children are thinking about the ice-cream and ask their parents how many scoops they can have. Before the parents answer it would be nice if they could quickly glance at the prices so they have an idea of how much it is going to cost. This is how it works in every other ice-cream place I have ever visited but not in yours it seems.

I have been a customer of yours on many occasions over a number of years and I know that you did display your prices before but this has now changed. Like I said, I don’t think this is very helpful especially at a time of price inflation when many customers are trying to keep an eye on what they are spending.

The ice-cream prices are not displayed so when they are about to order, customers have no idea what their order is going to cost. Come on, it really is normal to display the prices on the wall above the ice-cream counter so your customers know what they are...

Coffees are really nice, the sandwich with goat cheese and grilled vegetables is amazing. Homemade italian wrap with pancetta egg salad avocado and rocket salad wasnt good, it was so packed with mayonnaise and hardboiled egg you couldnt taste anything else. Additionally pancetta looked microwaved not fried it was chewy not crispy. Service seemed to ignore us, we asked about menus and just got offered coffee, we had to take a menu from an unoccupied table next to us which wasnt even the full menu - we saw other people had the full menu which noone gave to us - finding out anything was impossible as our questionsal were kind of politely ignored and before we could order food we were done with our coffees because noone came up to us, nor even came close or asked whether we needed something. We had to call the waitress to us each time, she went through all the tables and just seemed to conveniently skip...