Amsterdam Eats

[prizat]

Anyone have a favorite spot for Indonesian in Amsterdam? Looking to sit down to a rijsttafel and experience some serious small plates. Thanks, ZOT

[LindsayH]

I'll be in Amsterdam this fall and am also looking for a good rijsttafel restaurant. The only recommendations I've seen on the blogs are for Blaw aan de wal and Sama Sebo which both seem a little pricey. Anyone suggest something a little cheaper??

[zuriga1]

Just another name to throw out into the mix.... Samo Seba. We had a very good rijstaffel there a few years ago. The waiters explained each dish to us, and I thought it was delicious.

[linguafood]

FWIW, don't let them convince you to order a bottle of wine w/out asking the price.

While we were quite happy with our rijsttafel, we were offered a 2 ltr. bottle of rosé (we were 6) which was nothing special, but quite drinkable. So we had another bottle.

Turns out they charged us 65 Euro for each bottle, tacking on a hefty extra 130 Euros. Bit of a rip-off, if you ask me...

[linguafood]

both our resident dutch experts, dutchgrub and eat_amsterdam recommend blauw an de wal.

[prizat]

Although blauw de wal looks like a great spot (which I am adding to my list), it looks like Mediteranean cuisine. Anyone out there have a reccomendation for Indonesian?

[linguafood]

Blauw IS an Indonesian restaurant, and it serves rijsttafel....

http://www.dutchgrub.com/2010/06/16/r...

maybe I confused two different spots. if so, my bad.

[charlesbois]

I think Blauw aan de wal is on Zeedijk or Oudezijds Achterbergwal. Dutchgrub's post links to a restaurant on Amstelveenseweg, way over on the other side of Vondelpark away from the Centrum.

FWIW, there are a lot of posts for Indonesian. My only experience is at Tujuh Mahret on Utrechtsestraat, which was very good (although I didn't have the rijsttafel) and I would recommend. I've posted before I've heard it called touristy, but I did not find it to be so.