cafe de Jaren

My partner and I wanna find a relaxing and causal restaurant for a simple dinner. This is a great place to go. No need to be pushed for ordering a main or something big, no pressure to be rush. Everyone seems enjoying their time for chatting with friends, reading, writing or just having a coffee to do nothing. Food is good and fresh overall. We love their apple tart very much!

Excellent brunch/lunch spot. Interior is very well decorated and the vibe is great. Banana Cream Cake was light and perfectly sweet. Croissants were great. Goat cheese ciabatta was amazing! Shakshouka was decent. Espresso was good. Great prices for the quality of food.

This place always got my attention from outside with it’s amazing terrace on the water. Finally had the time to go in and was amazed by it. It’s a very nice place. You can work or relax or meet with your friends. The staff is so friendly and nice. We drank cappuccino and were delicious.

Definitely a unique place in the heart of the city center of Amsterdam - spacious seating, cozy atmosphere, and a wide menu selection. The cakes and coffee were great! The only downside was excessive heating inside which made the experience rather uncomfortable. It was also very crowded at midday on Saturday, so reservations are certainly recommended

A mixed experience. Pros ✅: A nice big space/venue, with lots of light and pleasant canal views, a good buzz to it with lots of energy and hubbub. The cake was delicious. Cons ❌: The service was abysmal. We were sat for 20 minutes before someone came and took our order, we tried flagging down waiters dozens of times but they were too few and not very attentive. We then had to wait another 15 minutes for our drinks to arrive, and when they did the coffee was not hot. The decaf coffee was awfully bad, watery, and weak. The latte that was made with it was white not brown and tasted like plain milk, when I flagged this to staff they said that’s normal ‘because it’s decaf’. No, decaf coffee is not supposed to be any weaker or paler than its caffeinated counterpart, you’re serving terrible quality decaf coffee in that instance. The baked eggs were also not good; they were rather bland and tasteless (sadly like a lot of food in the Netherlands). They tasted of basically nothing, it seemed to have no herbs or spices or even pepper, the cheese was also bland. It really needs some stronger cheese, some paprika, some oregano or tarragon or something anything to give it some flavour. They were also very dry as weirdly they didn’t have any sort of béchamel or hollandaise sauce which would be normal for this sort of dish, and the eggs themselves were overcooked. The WiFi also didn’t work. All-in-all we felt this place had a lot of potential, but was let down by the bad coffee the bland food and the poor/slow service from staff.