Ritmeester Bistro & Grill — Restaurant in Veenendaal

We had reserved with a large group and upon arrival were pointed to the wardrobe and then our seats. The wait staff was friendly, attentive and polite. The atmosphere was warm and cozy, as if walking into a nice, warm shed after a long walk through snow.

We were quickly asked to pick out some drinks, of which there was a good selection of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages (see images).

It took a while for our drinks to arrive, and when they did we were asked to order our starters and mains. I ordered a dressed Carpaccio for my starter and the ribs with their original sauce for my main. The dessert was a surprise dessert. For the three courses it always took quite an excessive time for the meal to arrive, which I can partially forgive because we were a large group, but even then it took too long. The wait staff, while friendly, also seemed quite clumsy and unfamiliar with the menu, although this can be understood, considering that this restaurant is fairly new.

The Carpaccio was delightful, the flavours were well balanced and all very clearly present, it was a simple but good dish. The ribs were sadly rather disappointing, the sauce was barely present and quite bland. Sadly the ribs were also unevenly cooked, one side being a little charred while the other remained undercooked. While I really quite like the concept of a surprise dessert, I felt the restaurant had taken too much of a risk as to what the surprise was. The dessert was a small cylinder of whipped cream, a mocha jelly and a chocolatey crumble with garnishes of white chocolate mousse, caramel and meringue. While generally tasty, it was quite intense and the textures did not blend well.

Overall, I think I might give The Ritmeester another try as, while I was disappointed, I see how much potential the restaurant has and how much wonderful care there is put into...

The service in the restaurant is the most weak point in my feedback. Food and prices are good, reasonable and affordable. But the service I swear is the worst to compare all places I ever saw in my live. You will be waiting for waiter longer than you would be eating a dish. Afterwards possibly you will be ordering coffee and again waiting for it will be about 25 minutes for a damn cup of coffee. It wasn’t busy time, around dinner time and the food hall is completely dirty, pieces of food lying around, sofas are in crumbs from previous visitors, disgusting… So overall I am disappointed in the restaurant meanwhile the food was really tasty. So all together makes me feel that I wouldn’t be coming back and advise to...

We had a 'heavy' lunch (most Dutch people eat sandwiches for lunch) and it was nice. It tasted great and the atmosphere was lovely. The portionsize was a bit confusing to me though. I ordered the chickenthighs with french fries and my friend ordered steak, but we had to share one tiny bowl of fries. It didn't make any sense to me. I got three huge slices of chickenthighs which is way too much for lunch, and we had to order another bowl of fries. The bowl of fries that we ordered was bigger than the one we got first. If we had that one to share it would've made sense. It took them a long time to bring the fries, our meat was almost cold when the fries arrived. My son had the poffertjes and he...