The bread and butter they offer in the beginning of your meal was some of the best French butter…read moreI've ever had. Our server, Mitchell, was helpful in explaining the menu and gave recommendations. The bartender working that day made an amazing Hendrix martini. And our other friend, from Bangladesh, was giving us lots of information about the restaurant as well as the local area, almost like a personal tour guide. The first course, escargot with herbed butter, was delightful to say the least. Save some bread to absorb the remains. The seasonal white asparagus dish with ham, hard boiled egg and petite potatoes was superb. We don't offer this style of cuisine much in the States; a treat to dive deeper in traditional cooking. The sea bass as a main was swimming with flavor. I appreciate this style of French cuisine in "the Venice of the North". The atmosphere and the staff made the experience terrific. I would enjoy coming back for a second visit. Atmosphere: 10 | 10 Service: 9.5 | 10 Food: 9.5 | 10

Place is super cute. Service was good and friendly. Food was fantastic. Bread was warm and…read moredelicious and they even brought more butter when she noticed I had run out. The shallot tarte was flaky and flavorful. The gnocchi was rich and buttery. Would absolutely come back

After a visit to the Van Gogh Museum and a short walk, we found this wonderful place on…read moreWillemsparkweg. What a beautiful surprise for Italian food. Had the Pesto Tortellini chicken and it was delicious. We also enjoyed the Lemon Mint lemonade that was refreshing and not too sweet. Highly recommended. Loved the service and loved the food.

Forgive me as I do not know the name of this dish but this was probably the most delicious pasta…read morethat I have ever had. I stumbled upon this place on accident trying to get out of the cold in Amsterdam and I'm glad that I did! The aesthetic was homey but with a modern twist-I felt like I was in a family members home eating dinner. The service could have been better which was odd because it wasn't really busy. This was my first time trying true Italian pasta outside of the States and now I can't look back. I would for sure recommend this place for a chill and familiar vibe for a drink or a bite to eat.

Out of all the restaurants I dined at over two weeks in the Netherlands and France, my lunch at…read moreRIJKS® was the single best meal I had -- and I had many excellent meals. But only at RIJKS® was I really surprised, and only at RIJKS® did I find myself obsessing over dishes long after the meal was a distant memory. The dish that really knocked me for a loop was the amuse bouche, a broth of leeks with tarragon oil served as a small shot. I found myself craving noodles with it; the restaurant is really missing something by not serving this with ramen or udon or something. (The young ladies at the next table said the exact same thing.) The prix fixe lunch menu is an exceptional deal with fantastic dishes: The green gazpacho delivers the freshness of green tomatoes, bell peppers, unripened strawberries, and herbs. The optional laab course is fresh and light, with the goat meat having no funky, "goaty" flavor. The chicken thigh course represented Indonesian flavors better than either of the actual Indonesian restuarants I visited in Amsterdam, while the dessert had a restrained, faint sweetness that finished the meal perfectly. Service was warm and friendly, and the room is comfortable and elegant. The wood paneling sets the perfect balance between modernity and the historicism of the Rijksmuseum that houses it. Most importantly, the meal was an excellent price for the quality of the food and service (€55 for three courses, €20 for the additional laab course). Even if one has no plans to tour the Rijksmuseum, no one should pass up the chance to dine at RIJKS® when in Amsterdam.

Went here for lunch and the food and service were amazing!…read more I had the tasting menu and my friend had the vegetarian tasting menu. They made sure that my menu was lactose free. The flavors were wonderful and the descriptions of the food sound so simple, but the flavors are very complex. Excellent pacing of the courses. We had told them that we needed to catch a train and they were very mindful of the timing. Nice modern restaurant with nice spacing between the tables.

Had a great dinner here…read more Had the Salad of Tuscany duck breast and the Risotto Milanese. Both were freshly prepared and delicious! The house red wine was a nice compliment. Staying at the Renaissance and love that I didn't have to go out in to the cold to find great food at a great price (a generous 10% discount if you charge your bill to your room). Will return.

Inside the Renaissance Marriott, convenient when staying here. Nice menu items I enjoyed the…read morecarciofo gritty con s puma de zucca (fried artichoke pumpkin cream) and the Branzino (supposed to be sea bass) but had the look and taste of trout. The flavor was plain on the fish and bones were present so I was cautious. Loved the artichoke, nice pumpkin cream. Slightly skeptical on the "sea bass". Really had the texture, look and taste of trout but was still a good meal. Need to add that the desserts ate nice!!

This place was a great option for Tapas in the area. We had been traveling all day, new to Ams and…read morewanted something not overfilling but just right. Found this place and decided to give it a try! Great, friendly staff and reasonably priced options. I'd give 4 stars. Main reason for 4 stars, is that I really needed a veggie option after eating snacks all day so that was my one note. The food though was fresh and delicious! I'd go back!

Oresti's came recommended by the hotel and several hotel staff. It was fairly easy to locate and…read morewas walking distance close to our hotel. Ambiance was great, well spaced tables, nice furniture and decor. Servers were very welcoming and provided great assistance and recommendations for food & drink. Food... was great! Tapas of calamari, shrimp, ribs and ham... it was just right with the beer and drinks. Come and have an evening of drinks, tapas and nice people...

This place has been remodeled/rebranded to Cecilia for quite sometime. Food is average good…read more Service was very great. Good spot to stop by, especially early morning when nothing opens.

Chicken with bimi (broccoli and cauliflower) was amazing. The restaurant was empty when I arrived,…read moreearly as usual! This was easily one of the best meals of my entire time in Amsterdam. I should have returned but too much to see and too many areas to explore. They're attached to a hotel but don't let that keep you away from trying this amazing place. The gluten free bread was wonderful as was the gravy served over the chicken. The ambiance is quite lovely and upscale. Great for a date night or for a fun night out or a business meeting. If I lived here I'd return weekly it was that good. The staff were super helpful as well and make great recommendations on good wine bars for me to explore in other areas. Great meal, wonderful service and a beautiful restaurant! Highly recommend it.

Really excellent food in a lovely "greenhouse" setting. Everything we had was terrific, and the…read moreservice was as good as you'd expect from Amsterdam. It's also not very noisy in the greenhouse area, so if you're scheduling a dinner (like ours) where you want to be able to have a serious conversation, this is a great place for it. The staff here will work very carefully with any members of your party who have food allergies, so remember to fill out that part of your reservation form. Good wine list, too. They had a couple of Alto Adige wines I didn't see elsewhere in Amsterdam.

We had dinner reservations for 5:30pm on a Friday night. The place is very modern and upscale. The…read moremenu doesn't indicate any items GF but the server gave an allergen menu. We both ordered a glass of wine and risotto. We were brought GF bread with olive oil, but only one piece to share. The risotto was perfectly cooked and very flavorful. The servers changed throughout dinner but the guy at the end was very nice. My friend and I shared 2 GF desserts - the chocolate mousse and pavlova. The pavlova was incredible and the mousse was good but very rich.

Bougainville is the rare fine-dining room that makes you feel simultaneously pampered and curious,…read moreas if you had wandered into a jewel box where every drawer hides another small revelation. We loved it so much that we went two nights in a row, cost be damned, and the team could not have been kinder about it. They greeted us by name on night two, teased us for being gluttons in the friendliest way, and then treated us less like guests and more like friends. Service was impeccable and genuinely playful, and the bread service was mind-blowingly good, the sort of robust, deeply flavored loaf one expects from the north of Europe. The kitchen works in precise, intelligible layers. That fish course in my photos is a good example. It arrived first as a pristine, pearly fillet of turbot, resting on a dill-cucumber crème. Then a second server returned to crown it with a glassy sea-green "chip" that ate like sea lettuce, followed by a modest quenelle of caviar and finally a warm ring of sauce that read like a beurre blanc punctuated with herb oil. Nothing felt showy for its own sake. Each addition clarified the dish's argument, moving from delicate sweetness to briny snap to round, buttery depth. Other plates were equally assured. The opening bite stacked raw tuna with bright citrus gel and a neat cap of caviar on a beet-red base, a small, cool fireworks show. There was lobster lounging in a cappuccino of shellfish foam that smelled like low tide in the best possible way. A spring lamb plate paired a rosy medallion with morels and a glossy, concentrated jus, plus little textural asides that made you pause between bites. On the sweet end, a Mexican-coin of mezcal-laced chocolate sat in a pool of raspberry, the smokiness and the tart fruit punching at the same rhythm, which I adored, the sort of thing that should not work but absolutely did. There was also a very noma-ish dessert built around mushroom ice cream over a dark, crunchy crumble with herbal notes on top. It sounded eccentric and tasted inevitable. Part of the fun here is how often they finish at the table. You can see in my photos a strawberry composition that arrived fragrant and already beautiful, and then two servers layered on chilled elements and an aromatic liquid that sent a cool fog drifting over the fruit. That theatricality is never empty. It helps you register the components and remember the dish as a sequence rather than a blur. Because we doubled up, the team very thoughtfully re-mapped the tasting so that night two had almost no overlap with night one. It felt like peeking into a live sketchbook, the same sensibility expressed across new subjects. We skipped the wine and brought our palates in primed by the impossibly good cocktails from Twenty Seven next door, and Bougainville's menu met that standard without breaking a sweat. Two nights, zero fatigue, and the rare sense that a restaurant knows exactly what it wants to say. Elegant, modern, deeply delicious. If Amsterdam has a table that better balances surprise with coherence, I have not found it. Between the room, the view, the bread, the easy charm of a team who can garnish in concert and still joke with you, and a kitchen that knows exactly what it wants to say, Bougainville won me over twice in forty-eight hours. Stellar work, and a place I would return to again without hesitation.

Went to Bougainville for dinner to celebrate a birthday and had a wonderful experience…read more We were seated at the Chef's Table which was a real treat. Meeting Chef Golsteijn and interacting with him and his staff as each dish came out was truly terrific. Everyone was friendly and the service was impeccable. The dishes were creative and wonderfully prepared and presented. We had a seven-course meal (plus an extra dessert) and there wasn't a miss. Though we weren't seated there, the main dining room also looked very nice - elegant with a great ambiance. Highly recommend!