Ristorante-VaBene — Restaurant in Voorschoten

Nice location. Friendly staff.

We ordered an antipasto misto. It took a while. Both cold and warm antipasti were tasty but cold.

For the main course we ordered different pasta dishes. We waited one more hour. After 1.45 hours since we first sat I asked one of the waiters for un update. After 10 more minutes we asked again. We have a small baby and in the end we left. If it wasn't for the baby we would have waited a bit more, but anyway waiting times were too long.

I am sorry for them, but my first experience there was not good. It was the first time I left a restaurant being tired of waiting. It will take a while before I think about returning, and before that I will check the most...

I discovered this restaurant in 2022, the pizzas were always amazing until 2024. However, I visited recently (Mai 2025) and I was really disappointed by the pizzas. Way too much flour on the pizza (it was not enjoyable at all to eat the pizza), a tomato sauce that doesn't have any taste, and a mushroom & truffle pizza without any taste of truffle (quite difficult as truffle is quite strong in taste...). So it made the pizza quite expensive for what it was... It is sad to see that the quality changed that much...

Very good and authentic Italian kitchen. Prices are on the higher side but with fresh ingredients every day the menu changes constantly with a very high quality. The 3 course menu is very nice but also orders from the menu are fine. They have relatively large portions so a starter and main could be more than enough. The primi piatti is large enough to be a...