Fa. Pekelhaaring in Nieuwe Pijp

This restaurant is simply delightful. The bean ravioli dish and the fish “stew” were exceptional dishes. Would highly recommend. Deserves a full star.

Really good all-around restaurant.

Lovely evening with beautiful oysters. Delicious dishes such as the turbot and rabbit shoulder (had to think of Flappie for a moment ;-) ). White chocolate cheesecake and Sgroppino. Good wines and top-notch dishes at your table. See you soon!

Amazing food quality , great service .

We had a wonderful meal; the service was super friendly and personal. We didn't know what we wanted and said we trusted the kitchen's recommendations, to which they immediately said, 'You know what, we'll just put two dishes down at a time and then see what the next one is going to be.' They asked what we thought of every course, and not in a superficial way, but out of genuine interest in the food. Superbly seasoned, classic cuisine with a twist.

Had a delicious meal and drinks

We had a delicious meal and lovely wines. I had the mozzarella dish with strawberry; really good, fresh mozzarella and unique fresh flavors. After that, the broad bean ravioli, which was also very tasty. I especially loved the dessert: olive oil cake with chocolate ice cream, olive oil, and salt; highly recommended. The wines were also very good (but I’m also very happy with good Italian wines). The only downside I found was that we had reserved for 5:30; logically, the table would still be occupied afterwards, but the food order wasn't taken until 6:15 PM, and we were informed during dessert that we had to hurry up.

Friendly service, but mostly overpriced meh food (exception: asparagus with cheese and vinaigrette were pretty amazing!). Tagliata di manzo was well cooked but mediocre quality and smothered in bland parmesan(?) without even a leaf of rocket to make it appear more than a slab of meat. Other dishes did not lead to an 'Mmmm' either, which is my personal test. For some or other unfathomable reason this seems to be one of the 'places to be', and the acoustics do not keep up. Later in the evening you will find yourself shouting to be heard by your table mates.

Some of the best oysters I’ve had in a long time. All the flavours were balanced. Food was excellent.

We had lost sight of Pekelhaaring a bit. Too far away, and many new places have opened up in the meantime. But it was a joy to be back. A lovely, relaxed atmosphere in a space where we immediately felt at home. The menu offers many dishes with seasonal products: asparagus, strawberries, wild garlic pesto. That always makes me happy right away! A well-balanced menu for plant, fish, and meat lovers. I had delicious fresh gnocchi myself, while enjoying the grilled white asparagus and pan-fried whole turbot of my neighbors. It looks beautifully presented and is really well prepared. For me, this is how I like my food 😍 A crisp Pinot Grigio from Alto Adige to go with it, and knowledgeable and friendly Pekelhaaring staff who gave us good advice and kept refilling the water without question. Top notch!

Pekelharring in le Pipe neighborhood is a gem of a spot showcasing the best in season Italian foods one would ever dream of. The cocktails to start would be that of a cosmopolitan or expresso martini. Then move into a starter of the light bite sort such as the meatballs then cascade thru the menu with razor clams and linguini and the lamb ragu pasta. Both are excellent and for desert the tiramisu or the apple cake. This was from start to finish one of my favorite meals I have had in Amsterdam and I think you will love it, as well! It is beautifully curated menu that awaits you at Pekelhaaring. Its upwards flavors match their beautifully crafted wine list. Fresh, Fun and Well paced.

Great rabbit shoulder, amazing olive oil cake. Really nice that the kitchen is open for lunch

Stopped in here for lunch because it started raining. What a happy accident- had some absolutely incredible pappardelle with lamb ragú. We were in a bit of a rush but wish we could have stayed to enjoy a longer meal.

Excellent! Fantastic food, lovely service and fantastic value for food of this quality.

Atmospheric restaurant, delicious food, good service! I would especially recommend the starter with the sea bream crudo and the primi parpadelle with lamb stew!!

Loved every bite. Classic Italian flavours done so that Nonna would eat there. The bakes lemon chicken was my favourite. Recommend it for a casual dinner with good friends.

The staff was very friendly and the meal was excellent and innovative. That appetizer of little ships was incredibly flavorful! Thank you!

We had a super delicious meal! Pekelharing is our regular restaurant and we enjoy it every time. There are also plenty of options if you have allergies. I don't eat gluten myself and was able to get a gluten-free pasta!

Had a delicious meal. Arancini is highly recommended! Very generous portions and very helpful staff!

Fa. Pekelhaaring is a standout in Amsterdam’s dining scene and a well-deserved Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand. It strikes that rare balance between high-quality cooking and accessible pricing. The menu leans modern European with Italian influences—think perfectly cooked pastas, bold yet clean flavors, and excellent use of the grill (Big Green Egg dishes are a highlight). Nothing feels overcomplicated, but everything is thoughtfully executed. The atmosphere is relaxed and unpretentious, with an artsy, local feel that makes you want to linger. In short: serious food, zero fuss, great value. Exactly what a Bib Gourmand should be.

I think this might be the first review I’ve ever written in my life—and unfortunately, it’s for what I can only describe as one of the worst places to go in Amsterdam. I’ve been living here for about five years now, so I don’t say this lightly. After ordering a cheese and prosciutto platter, we waited for over half an hour, only to be told that the prosciutto wasn’t available. Instead, they brought us a plate of cheese that cost €15, served with what looked like basic supermarket crackers. There was no apology or real effort to make up for the inconvenience. Overall, it was a very disappointing experience. Between the long wait, the lack of communication, and the poor value for money, this stands out as one of the most unpleasant dining experiences I’ve had in Amsterdam.

Had a delicious meal! Everyone was very satisfied! The staff is friendly and the atmosphere is pleasant.

Had a pleasant evening, good food and excellent service

Wine totally fits the course, amazing place to eat!

Undercooked pasta dish, my mussels were raw and a few not even open. I felt very rushed by their 2 hour sitting policy.

Delicious food, a lovely space, and friendly service, perfect for families. The food was surprising, with unique dishes, superb ravioli, and delicious quail. Delicious white wine, Grune Veltliner from Let, and the lava dessert were incredibly delicious—in short, we had a wonderful time!

Fantastic restaurant with excellent service and delicious food. Highly recommended and our number one favorite in De Pijp!

The food was delicious, the service was excellent, the wine was wonderful, and the restaurant had a lovely atmosphere. A definite must-see in Amsterdam!

Pekelhaaring to me is a perfect example of Bib Gourmand at its best. Creative dishes with fresh, seasonal ingredients, expertly prepared, in a casual environment. I had arancini, fresh tagliatelle with deer ragu, and a poached pear tart, all for under €35 (if you share the dessert).

Fantastic food! Excellent service and a beautiful restaurant with a lovely atmosphere. The food quality is excellent. Definitely worth going back.

It was delicious again this time.

Delicious Italian-oriented cuisine with an interesting wine list.

Creative Italian dishes with a twist - we really enjoyed the food quality and the cozy atmosphere 🥘🍲🍛. Recommend & compliments to the chefs 👩‍🍳 👨‍🍳!

Delicious food, great selection of dishes. The drinks were good. The foie gras was delicious when you combined every element. The Rabbit leg was good as well. The ravioli was a bit salty with all the cheese but delicious if you didn't scoop all of it up.

Yesterday I had tagliatelle in a stew sauce: excellent!!

Absurd to wait 45+ min between appetizer and main. Portions are ridicullus, some cold and non existing. Avoid.

Nice place, delicious food in a cozy atmosphere. What more could you ask for? Definitely worth a return visit.

The best food we had in Netherlands. It might be a little bit more expensive but it is worth every penny. The service was really nice and the food amazing. Thank you for the lovely evening. ❤️

The food is fantastic, the menu is varied, and the wines are delicious. One of the best restaurants in Amsterdam.

Six people ate here for a birthday. The food was delicious and the service was very friendly.

Has been a favorite for many years!

Lunch. Ravioli with cheeks and capers taste so wonderful that I almost cried with emotion.

This might be the best in town if you want nothing complicated. Just really good food, a nice wine list with decent service and a great vibe.

Service was excellent and I enjoyed my main course a lot. The wine recommendations were great as well!

A pleasant place to eat well. No nonsense, and friendly staff. The service is attentive and refills the water quickly. Recommended!

Excellent flavors. 6* service beyond compare.

Magnificent! The rating must be higher because during our visit this evening, there was great teamwork. We asked for menu suggestions and they were delicious. The place is friendly with locals who want beautiful, unpretentious food but with just unpretentious service. We are lucky to be at the back and the attention paid to the dishes is also noteworthy. Yes, go there but book in advance

Great place for Italian food in great atmosphere and nice wine! Recommended!

I am used to go to this restaurant for past 2 yrs, usually (very) happy with the food, the service and the atmosphere

One of the best meals I’ve ever had! The braised pork cheek and deer tartare were top notch! The curd dessert was wow

We ordered a fish and a salad. Both were not good.

Excellent Restaurant Great Food Excellent service Exactly what I expected from a restaurant Thank you

Wow, I highly recommend this tagliatelle with wild boar ragout.

My favorite restaurant in De Pijp. A relaxed place that feels like a living room, where the staff offers genuine tips. The ingredients are always high quality; the oysters are always excellent, and the tagliata di manzo never disappoints.

Great place, with high quality Italian food in generous portions. Great vegetarian options, extensive wine card and creative desserts. They serve starters, primi, secondi and dolces but are flexible to mix and match. Enjoyed it very much! Try the ricotta stuffed courgette flowers.

The food was good tho it came a bit late

The food was very flavourful with the wild Boar stew tagliatelle being really flavourful and comforting and I recommend ordering the larger portion if you have a bigger appetite .The waiter was really kind and gave us recommendations on picking the dishes.The oysters were also very fresh and the portions of all the food were very generous.

Very bad lunch experience - an apetizer called sandwich. Paid 11.5 euros for a small burned bruschetta. All the waitress could say... sorry to disappoint you.

Nice place, nothing more, nothing less

Delicious dishes, friendly service. Top spot!

Bastante excelente - nos habíamos pasado por un par de noches y nos preguntamos lo que este restaurante siempre ocupado era... . luego recibió una recomendación de tuen @ nhow rai ... Wow tan contento de que nos sugirió visitar - gran servicio - gran menú y tan buena comida - recomiendo encarecidamente 👍🏼👍🏼 Excelente salida nocturna

Pickled herring is relatively expensive for what you get. The bill was also incomprehensible. There was a price per piece in the left column, but sometimes it was multiplied to a total in the right column and sometimes it wasn't. That's inconvenient if you're with a group and want to pay afterwards. The starter was absolutely delicious but too small: there was only 1 wild prawn, and when I asked the waitress where the other one had gone, she replied: it's processed in the marrow. That could very well be, but still... I ordered the rib eye medium but it came rare. The meat wasn't of such a quality that it could handle that. Not tasty.

Food: Excellent culinary experience! The dishes are good in portion, and the taste amazing! Prices are normal. Interior: Rather disappointing second-hand furniture store interior with DIY lights that blind you when you sit on the table. The acoustics are another non-addressed matter as the high level of noise makes it impossible to have a conversation. Unfortunately, this is the aesthetic that a lot of Amsterdam's hip places have and is accepted by the market. It really does not reflect the high quality of the kitchen, thus it made me rather upset. The chef's creations are high level thus it deserves an appropriate environment that would allow the client to enjoy them. Service: Polite personnel but not really attentive. The client needs to make an effort in order to catch the attention of one of the waiters.

Cozy restaurant with very good food

Overrated food and experience. Service was terribal, the team didnt have any attantionto to the customer or timing of the service. Waitted over 30 min to main. A very bad experience. Lots of other better value and better experience.

Had a wonderful dinner there with friends. Drinks were great, food was great and service was great. Highly recommended.

The food was super delicious. Portions were perfect. The service was friendly and helpful.

Este lugar en "De Pijp" en Amsterdam lo tiene todo. La ubicación es perfecta en un barrio animado e icónico. Restaurante en sí le da la sensación de que usted es un amigo bienvenido, visitando para la cena. El servicio es amable, al punto y servicial. La comida es muy sabrosa. Tuvimos una cena encantadora. Puedo recomendar esto a todo el mundo.

Quite busy Friday evening, the waiters were struggling to serve all the people within the allocated reservation time. Otherwise, very nice place!

This is one of Amsterdam's evergreens, but without being boring or predictable. Always good and always surprising, highly recommended!!

Extremely good dishes and super preparation!

Restaurant with the best price-quality ratio in de pijp! Good service and good food.

Very good, very good food. Somewhat expensive but in line with general prices in Amsterdam (€47/person)

This Italian restaurant, located in a quiet neighborhood during the week, filled up quickly during lunchtime. We chose to eat on the terrace under an awning, which was pleasant. To compose your meal, you can choose between the menu items or a selection of the daily specials listed on a blackboard inside. The waitress was friendly, although rushed, and we were served within 20 minutes. The dishes were delicious, a real treat. To accompany our meal, we had a glass of wine and a Moscow Mule, which was truly excellent and I highly recommend it. A meal full of flavors that I recommend to anyone longing for Italy!

Toegankelijke en sfeervolle zaak, open keuken en vriendelijke bediening. Gevarieerde kaart en ook voor vegetariërs keuze. De meeste gerechten waren top en heel smaakvol, de artisjok viel iets tegen. Suggesties voor wijnen waren goed. Gewoon fijn restaurant zonder kapsones.

Nice location with delicious food and good wine. Downside: they have a shortage of wine glasses and they are quickly taken away if someone does not drink wine but does drink water and still wants to toast...

Beautiful place. It smells good when you enter. Friendly service. The map is original. I had the tagliata di manzo. Rarely tasty. Good Italian wine with it. I think you need to make a reservation. They are in demand. And rightly so.

Loved the food and the atmosphere- try the wood pigeon 😀

Cannonau - stracciatella - porcini tartette - lava cake, all full of flavours and textures. So so good. The tastebud high comes at a price but it was worth it. Our servers were lovely too.

Nice place with delicious food and pleasant service. I'll be back.

Very good. The atmosphere, the service, wine list and of course the food. Would not hesitate to recommend it to anyone.

How irritated I was with staff who kept asking if we knew it yet. Exactly 2 hours after we sat at the table and had just finished the main course, the monkey came out of our sleeves and we could no longer order dessert because the next guests arrived for our table! This is so customer unfriendly you wouldn't go out to eat for that.

Nice location, good food and a full menu to choose from all day long!

Met een groep vrienden hier gegeten, Ik ging op een houten stoel zitten. Had direct een groot gat in mijn gloednieuwe panty (Falke panty), door een grote houtsplinter van de stoel. Meisje is de bediening zei dat het vergoedt kon worden. Volgende dag gemaild, het bedrijf mailde dat ze niets voor mij konden doen. Volgens mij is daar een aansprakelihkheidsverzekering voor. Slechte service!! Eten is goed, erg prijzig

Had a delicious meal again in December!

Good atmosphere, good prices, excellent food, great wines, professional service.

What used to be a good restaurant is now crazy expensive for food of not particularly skilled cheffing… Disappointing dishes abound. Embarrassingly small pastas at €17 Tagliata at €28 overcooked and dumped on a plate lacking any sophistication. Staff good. Room pleasant but aside from this just not up to standard for the price.

A nice and attractive restaurant on the Van Woustraat. Good menu with less obvious ingredients. Food is really good. It's a shame that tap water costs 3 euros and the potatoes we ordered were forgotten.

Another delicious meal at Fa. Brine hair! One of my favorite restaurants for years! The food is very tasty, the service is top notch and the acoustics also seem to have improved. We had a very nice evening and are already looking forward to the next time. See you soon!

Honest food, simply very tasty, in combination with a relaxed atmosphere, good service and delicious wines. All-time favorite in Amsterdam.

Vroeg of we hier een klein broodje konden eten dat was geen probleem Kregen een kaart waar geen echte broodjes op stonden later kwam ze met een groot bord en rattelde alles op toch maar besteld en was redelijk Ben naar het toilet gegaan naar het naar boven gaan van de trap was het slecht verlicht zodat ik de laatste trap struikelde Bloedend been enkel blauw het enige wat ze zei gaat het. Lijkt mij goed om de trap beter te verlichten voor ons nooit meer

This is my personal favorite in Amsterdam. I lived next to here for years and have been there a lot. Lunch, dinner, everything is always top notch and the staff is really great. Personal attention, relaxed, knowledgeable. I always recommend it to everyone!

Heute Mittag zum Lunch eine perfekte, hervorragende Fischsuppe geniessen dürfen:) auch der Pekantarte mit pochierter Birne und Schokoeis war große Klasse! Ein hochklassiger Lunch in entspannter Atmosphäre mit sehr kompetentem und sympathischem Service. Komme wieder!

The food is tasty. But we find the atmosphere cold. Whether that is due to the windows (as if you are in a shop window) or the ventilation system? We were in quite a draft and the smell of the fragrance sticks from the toilet also drifted past through the ventilation. That didn't make it any tastier. The acoustics are also terrible. With a group larger than 4 people, it is no longer possible to understand each other.

The best cheese cake ever!!! but super pricey Oyster is ok and not that impressive The onion sauce is good btw

I normally never bother to post a bad review, but I thought the service in this restaurant was so bad that I made an exception for De Pekelharing. I made a reservation two weeks in advance and arrived 10 minutes before my reservation. There was no room at that time, which is of course not a bad thing. Would we like to take a seat outside? After sitting in the cold for a little more than half an hour, during which no one even offered me a drink, I decided to give it a try.

Always delicious, very busy so make a reservation before you go!

Delicious food. Nice menu.. very nice restaurant

Now we were already fans of Pekelhaaring. But with Tristan serving it is a real treat. So thoughtful. We had a great evening. The duck liver mousse as a starter is highly recommended.

Really loved the appetizer (raw fish one), the main course duck breast has large portion, the food itself is good (8/10). If you have a small stomach, a main and an appetizer would be more than enough. The service is alright, nothing so special nor disappointing. -Revisit My experience was really good that I had to come and leave a review🥹 I was so in love with the starter duck breast with duck liver. The seasoning was just right and left myself still thinking about the food after I returned home. The main course Monkfish was a little bit too salty but in general delightful, the fish itself was really fresh❣️The staff had a big smile and was really attentive. Forgot to ask his name but he definitely made the night better. Well done!