Re: Eating in Amsterdam : Thu Apr 04, 2013 10:17 pm  

the exile wrote:

I had great a week staying in the Jordaan district a year or so back and my top tip would be to make sure you've got shoes with smooth soles on....the amount of dog muck on the pavements there is remarkable!

check that youtubey thing for Mojo Nixon and The Amsterdam Dogshit Blues

Re: Eating in Amsterdam : Fri Apr 05, 2013 8:28 am  

Question.

In Amsterdam, is it customary to "go Dutch" on the bill?

Re: Eating in Amsterdam : Fri Apr 05, 2013 1:02 pm  

Mintball wrote: Might look at that – thank you. There's a couple in the Jordaan we've eaten at in the past, but I'm afraid I cannot remember the names. I like the ones I mentioned earlier simply because they're small, they have a sense of the local and do local food. Sometimes that does cross over with the touristy – but I'm very, very much looking forward to eating here on my trip, which starts a week Saturday. I want to eat regional food. Damn. I don't usually do desserts so just askked for a coffee when offered the menu. Looking at the review imeediately above mine, I wisj I'd have taken a look!

Mintball wrote: Might look at that – thank you. There's a couple in the Jordaan we've eaten at in the past, but I'm afraid I cannot remember the names. I like the ones I mentioned earlier simply because they're small, they have a sense of the local and do local food. Sometimes that does cross over with the touristy – but I'm very, very much looking forward to eating here on my trip, which starts a week Saturday. I want to eat regional food. Damn. I don't usually do desserts so just askked for a coffee when offered the menu. Looking at the review imeediately above mine, I wisj I'd have taken a look!

Re: Eating in Amsterdam : Fri Apr 05, 2013 1:14 pm  

I tend to have dessert when dining out, but at home, it's once a week at the most.

Re: Eating in Amsterdam : Fri Apr 05, 2013 1:17 pm  

Mintball wrote:

I tend to have dessert when dining out, but at home, it's once a week at the most.

You're female! All women like desserts. I prefer starters wheras most females I know would give up a starter for a dessert.

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Re: Eating in Amsterdam : Fri Apr 05, 2013 1:45 pm  

3 pages on Amsterdam.

Do not bother going there , there are far more interesting cities in Europe to go to. Dont wast your money or time !!!!!!

Re: Eating in Amsterdam : Fri Apr 05, 2013 1:47 pm  

Ah well, there you go.

I don't actually have a very sweet tooth. The chocolates I bought for Christmas – top-quality ones – still haven't been finished. And that's quite my norm.

I bought some exceptionally special ones from Bruges at the beginning of May last year – loved them. But the box still lasted until the end of the year.

Re: Eating in Amsterdam : Fri Apr 05, 2013 3:06 pm  

I know you shouldn't laugh, particularly as I only speak a bit of Italian and a modicum of terrible French, but I do love a translated menu.

My favourite was a place in a little town in Slovakia that featured "Chicken Of The Neighbourhood" and "Spit On A Plate".

Re: Eating in Amsterdam : Fri Apr 05, 2013 4:25 pm  

Dally wrote:

You're female! All women like desserts...

More than one waiter has been severely withered by one look from La Senora after that sort of comment.

Re: Eating in Amsterdam : Fri Apr 05, 2013 6:31 pm  

Mintball wrote:

I don't actually have a very sweet tooth. The chocolates I bought for Christmas – top-quality ones – still haven't been finished. And that's quite my norm.

Thats just weird.

I bought a box of Cadbury's Roses for the wife for Easter last weekend, nice of me wasn't it ?

Anyway, she's like you, likes chocolate but she'd expect to go back to that box of Roses in September and still find plenty left.

She'll be lucky, I scoffed the effin lot myself, threw the box out on Tuesday, don't think she's noticed yet.

I'm dead when she does.