Van Rijn - Amsterdam

Van Rijn
Rembrandtplein 17
1017 CT  Amsterdam
+31 20 450 0555

What a stunning place. High ceilings, good location and new staff. With new I mean starting staff. Asking every step if all is oké, little bit too much but hey better than most places that's for sure.

We were with a group and had a small menu :


Peking Quail served with a pancake with hoisin, cucumber, sellery and red pepper

Plaice (Schol in NL) with aubergine compote, dried tomato and capers

Strawberries with creme fraiche ice cream, elderberry cream ice, cabernet sauvignon and basil


Menu was good, the quail was excellent, and for a place this big, holding up so many people it's pretty good. Not too fancy, good food and quality. The place it self is magic, helps too :-) Don't forget the toilets as well. And look around for all the details.

Ron Gastrobar Oriental - Amsterdam

Ron Gastrobar Oriental
Kerkstraat 23
1017 GA  Amsterdam
+31 20 223 5352

The second Gastrobar of Ron Blaauw but now on to the oriental style. Don't really know what to think of it. The place is perfect, nice bar on which lot of people eat, combined with lots of tables, two kitchens and a nice menu card.

Staff is (in beginning) not very helpful. We had to wait way to long for attention and or a drink. While there has been eye contact. Luckily it was better at the end but not very nice in begin. Almost left the place...

The menu is well presented and looks like there is enogh to choose from. For the menu you'll be givin it's quite a high price at the end of yout meal. Especially with prices like € 3,00 for an espresso ... That's too much for this quality. The meal is very high on flavor. Spicy (3 stars) is actually oké not too spicy so if like really really spicey no worries at all.

We had two starters

Shrimp toast with foie (1)
Octopus tempura (2)
pretty pricy for what you get. It's nice but especially the octopus could be better, bit more Octopus would have been nice.

Had some dumplings as well (4 + 5)
Dai Tie Sieuw Mai & Kai Kauw Choi Kau
Very good, fresh made in the seperate kitchen and full of flavour. Beats the dumplings from the well known freezers by miles...
We also took the Soft Shell Crab (3), love this dish ... soft shell crab is sooooo good.

Decided to have an extra go for the
Coquille with black beans (7)
Sweet and sour Shrimps (6)
Coquille was not the best combination as of some other dishes what you get for this price. Could do better. The Shrimps were perfect and well worth the money.


So that's why I started the way I did. Staff is not very well at times, the food is not always what you expect for small plate of € 15,00. So overall it's oké but could do some extra work. Not a place I 'need' to go back to next week.

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