Ristorante Italiano - Oude Hoogstraat 9

The best Italian food ever! Greetings to the chefs!!! You won't regret if you eat here!

Wonderfull meal nice staff

Good food and nice welcoming service

Visiting Amsterdam from London and I was very hungry so was looking for a place to eat. I found this place and was very happy with my experience. Tasty food, quick service, and very polite and attentive staff. Good prices too. I definitely recommend this place.

With guests visiting from home, we decided to go safe with an Italian Restaurant - how wrong can you get Italian food? We were served quickly and the menu was pretty extensive, offering pizza, pasta, tostis, salads and everything else you would expect from an Italian restaurant. The service was quick but not the friendliest, we were asked gruffly what we wanted and not really acknowledged past that. When we arrived the restaurant was empty, which initially hid the fact that they didn't have anywhere near enough menus for all the tables; even when there were only 4 tables full we were rushed to order so that they could give our menus to the newest guests. As well as a lack of menus, they seemed to be short on many other basic items on their menu. We ordered a gin and tonic to drink, but as they had run out of gin we decided to go for a vodka tonic instead. Surprisingly we were actually given a vodka and lemonade (or the sweetest tonic in existence), which was a glass of lemonade with far less than a full shot of vodka in it. Even more shockingly, when we asked for ketchup with our food we were given a single sachet of ketchup while being told that it was the last ketchup they had...at 7 o'clock on a Saturday night. As for the quality of the food, that too left a lot to be desired. Our group ordered two pizzas, a cheese pancake and some fries. The Borromeo (ham and cheese) pizzas should have been a safe bet but they used so little cheese that you could see the base in some areas, and the cheese they did use was more like styrofoam than cheese. The same was true of the cheese pancake, which was topped with a miniscule amount of the blandest, most tasteless cheese in existence; definitely not worth the 7 euros they charged. The fries that we paid 3.50 for were almost certainly the cheapest frozen fries they could find, and as such tasted and felt more like plastic than potato. The only saving grace for these fries would have been a ton of ketchup, but the single sachet they had left in their restaurant was not enough to save these. Overall, we would certainly not recommend this restaurant to a friend and would not visit again. The price seemed reasonable for a restaurant in the middle of Amsterdam, but considering the quality of the food it is far from good value for money. Despite the extensive menu, you will likely not be able to order much of it because of their poor stock organisation. To answer our earlier question, you can get Italian food very wrong.

the place looked small and cosy from the outside, inside the waiter was quite rude and all the staff were dressed very casually and carelessly. we ordered and our food came quickly, but it was of an extremely low standard. I had the spaghetti fruitti de mare and all of the fish was rubbery and much chewier than it should have been, there was minimal sauce and it looked like a shop bought ready meal. furthermore, I came across several small fish bones which I had not been warned about and would be a choking hazard to children and some adults! my boyfriend ordered ravioli which came hard and not defrosted properly, indicating that the food was in fact frozen and not fresh, the meat inside was rubbery and extremely salty. upon collecting my boyfriend’s half full plate the waiter asked me if I was still “working on it”, and later proceeded to clean a table in between handing us the bill and fetching us a card machine which should have been done immediately as my boyfriend had told him we had somewhere to be. he did not check or ask if it was nice, if he had have done I would have told him how appalled we were. thoroughly unpleasant experience, very disappointed.

This place is unassuming and fabulous food! Great value in the area!

Unassuming little place food was great and the front of house staff member was a gentleman as well made us feel very welcome