Amsterdam Restaurant Reviews

The supper club

A recent acquaintance of mine insightfully asked, ‘why can’t we just be friends?’ She wasn’t, in fact, offering me a gentle let-down after I’d just propositioned her for sex. (I...

How to organise a hen weekend, by a foodie

Anyone who’s ever been a bridesmaid will agree that, no matter how long you’ve known the bride-to-be or how much she claims to trust you, the prospect of organising the...

Freudian slip: service where you’d least expect it

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: customer service in Holland leaves a lot to be desired, especially when it comes to restaurants. The prospect, then, of dining...

Ladies who lunch

It’s Saturday. I’ve usually spent half the morning sipping strawberry smoothies and cappuccinos in bed, nibbling croissants and getting crumbs between the leaves of my book. I’m contemplating hitting the...

Food for people on diets

A friend of mine recently ordered a coffee in our local café; ‘I’ll have a decaf cappuccino with skimmed milk and no chocolate sprinkles’, she requested unashamedly from the nonplussed...

A rant about customer service (and a bit about restaurants)

The number of establishments – be they clothing shops, restaurants, makelaars, or indeed any other service-related haven of industriousness – that I can continue to frequent is, rather worryingly, rapidly...

Three courses, two sisters and one homemade tapenade

Having spent an hour and a half being entertained at De Chameleon theatre, an establishment reminiscent of an English village hall with an audience of around 30 studiedly impoverished thespians...

Rosemary for remembrance

After tinkering with my computer for a good hour and a half, my Brussels brother accompanied me to another of my new local restaurants: Bloesem. In a rather quaint location...

A feminist’s place is in the kitchen

Last night I went to Scarlett for dinner with an overpaid Shell engineer who happened to be in town. It’s hard to tell why the establishment would call itself Scarlett,...

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