Kitchen & Bar Van Rijn B.V. in Grachtengordel-Zuid

Friendly service, very good cocktails, great atmosphere

Back on a French terrace in France for a bit. Keep up the good work....

Beautiful cosy setting, great food and very friendly service! We were happy!

Delicious lunch at Chez van Rijn – surprisingly good on Rembrandtplein! To be honest: normally, we wouldn't be so quick to settle down at a touristy spot like Rembrandtplein for an elaborate lunch. But after two previous, positive experiences with Chez van Rijn, we decided to do it again anyway. And we absolutely do not regret it! There were three of us, and we chose to order various small dishes so we could share everything. A great choice, because the dishes were delicious, every single one of them: well-prepared, flavorful, and with visible attention to presentation. Add a good rosé to that, and basically, all the ingredients for a successful afternoon were present. What made this lunch extra enjoyable was the service. Assertive in a good way, spontaneous, and knowledgeable. Exactly how you like to see it. The manager also stood out positively: a spontaneous, knowledgeable man who visibly enjoys his work and, moreover, looked great in his handsome dark red suit. Details like that make a place personal and add atmosphere. And speaking of atmosphere: Chez van Rijn absolutely hits the mark. The location, the energy, the buzz of Rembrandtplein, and the ambiance inside and out ensure that you naturally linger a little longer. In short: another top-notch experience! Delicious food, good wine, pleasant service, and an atmosphere that invites you to come back again. Perhaps precisely because it is located in such a touristy spot, we had our doubts beforehand. But Chez van Rijn has now proven three times that it is an excellent place for a good lunch. So, a strong recommendation from us! We will definitely be back.

The restaurant's interior was simply gorgeous, creating a wonderful atmosphere. The service was excellent, and the food was absolutely delicious. For my main course, I ordered the steak, and it was truly one of the best steaks I've ever had. For dessert, I had a cheese platter, which was also incredibly tasty. I would definitely go back. The service was very friendly and attentive, and it was a truly lovely evening.

It was a fantastic meal; the steak was amazing, as was the chicken. For dessert, we had a cheese plate. This, too, was delicious. The service was extremely attentive and courteous. If I lived in Amsterdam, I would eat here often.

We ate here last night and now we are back again; that says it all. The interior is already beautiful in Art Deco style. The côte du boeuf was simply delicious, and they also have an extensive cocktail menu. Oh, and good old-fashioned service too. So, a really good restaurant, and that on the touristy Rembrandtplein.

Super great experience with Dex! He is fast, thinks along well, and makes sure everything runs smoothly. Truly top-notch service!

Very nice evening! Akash was a very nice server will definitely come back

got served by a guy named akash and he was super kind!! great service

Loved our server akash! He was so sweet and helped us perfectly!

Great service and great guy Akash! Always available when we needed him, person you can count on.

I had a really nice experience at Chez Van Rijn! The service was amazing and very attentive :) I ordered the Steak & Frites for dinner, which is also their signature dish, and I was really satisfied with it! I also ordered the Coffee & Cigarettes, which was absolutely amazing :) The service was truly top-tier and they paid so much attention to their guests. I would definitely come here again! It made my Amsterdam trip even more special :)

Dex was really chill, best waitress I've met in the past few years, a real star.

A perfect spot to spend the afternoon with no plans and no rush. Sem is exceptional as a server and a generous host. Because of him we stayed far beyond what we planned and will definitely be back again to enjoy a lazy afternoon people watching, having good food, and feeling well taken care of. A definite return is in our future.

Very nice restaurant, the people are friendly and the service is good! Tasty cocktails

Great food. The bitterballen were so tasty and saumon super good cooked. About service,Gioele was so kind and helpful. We highly Recommend this place for a calm dinner.

The food was delicious. We ordered steak and fries and it was probably one of the best. Thanks to gioele for the good service and recommendations

Awesome place!! Good food, tasty cocktails

Great guy! We had a amazing conversation and he was super quick with the service. Thank you Akash

Was a good experience with a nice bartender. His name is akash!

Very good! Bartender was nice! His name is Akash

Vibe was really nice! The service especially askash! Great place to get a drink

Great place! Definitely recommended.

Really nice diner, great atmosphere and good service.

Had a great meal! Delicious steak, finally good medium rare. Very nice French style. A gem of Amsterdam.

Great food, great service, beautiful building/atmosphere. Steak frites was cooked to perfection tasten great

Had a really fun birthday, highly recommended.

Beautiful place and that Sem is a real gem!

Very good service, we had Akash and they served us well, great place!

Had a delicious meal. Good service and nice atmosphere

Delightful, delicious and fantastic service.

Delicious dinner and top-notch service! 😊 The restaurant is ideally located in a very pleasant setting. Highly recommended! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Great dinner and excellent service! 😊 The restaurant is perfectly located and we had a lovely experience. Highly recommended! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Super beautiful place and top-notch service Sat on the terrace and didn't miss a minute.

Good beer, good food, and beautiful women walking by, what more could a person want?

Very sweet people and perfect 10-star service. Duco and Sem are super nice and helpful. Top-notch place!

Lovely atmosphere, delicious cocktails, and the service was top-notch.

Sam and Duco are super nice and they have super good cocktails. Everything arrives nice and fast and the food is tasty!! 🤤.

I love the staff. Very friendly! The drinks were amazing !!!

Friendly staff and the carpaccio sandwich was delicious. Nice terrace where you can enjoy people-watching.

Overall I feel the ambiance of the main area of the restaurant was fantastic, and the service was good, but the food was disappointing. Experience started well upon seeing the inside of the restaurant, but was a bit disgusted by the state of the men's restroom. One urinal was plugged with what looked to be vomit, and another was covered by a plastic sheet / was out of service. It smelled awful. I tend to use the state of the bathroom as an indication of the overall quality of the restaurant as well as the state of the kitchen. Regarding the food, it was overly salted (the salad was probably the saltiest I've ever had). Our cocktails were very good, but am disappointed we chose this restaurant for dinner given our limited time in Amsterdam and how many good places there are to eat in the city.

This was the perfect afternoon on our last day of a festival weekend... Fantastic food and cocktails... Simply lovely...

Great atmosphere & service. Food was on point. A particularly good choice 👏🏻 “Trust the process”

Had a delicious meal and good service 🙌🏼

Good atmosphere, the service was top-notch, I go there every time I come to Amsterdam

Just had dinner, the cocktails are highly recommended!

Pleasant evening with friendly waiters, delicious food, and the Pornstar Martini is delicious!

Thank you, Lucas dear!! The best.

Steak 30 euros, just like cardboard. I wouldn't even give schnitzel to my dog. Waitress with a nose piercing, arrogant, bad service.

Had dinner and lunch here. Both were fantastic. Highly recommended!

Beautiful, atmospheric place with good service. We shared the main courses and they were all delicious. Highly recommended!

Excellent food, but unfortunately the service came across as rather arrogant, which took away from an otherwise enjoyable evening on the terrace.

The decor after the renovation is a mix of NYC speakeasy and boudoir style, I love it! The menu has become simpler, though. But the food is still good! Eggs with mayo are a great addition :) excellent cocktails. I've been coming here for years and hopefully for many more years to come.

Fantastic French restaurant! Good value for money and perfect quality. The staff was incredibly kind and attentive. @Dex deserves nothing but praise! We will definitely be back!

Like the service very nice guy Lucas very funny guy !

Beautiful restaurant with live music on Sundays. Food is really good

Ivan and Andrew were amazing!!!

Lucas is a legend, the best of all. The Best!

Great vibe and food. Lucas was our waiter very friendly awesome guy

The food was really tasty, but there wasn't much on the menu for me. Pleasantly surprised by the good taste. There were a lot of old people. No place for me. We were also unnecessarily seated at uninviting tables while we were celebrating a birthday. That was a shame.

I don't recommend this place. We waited a long time for our order, even though the restaurant was sparsely populated. They brought us steak and salmon, but neither the fish nor the steak was well done. We didn't ask before ordering whether we wanted the steak well done. We just assumed we wanted it medium. The fish was rare, so I asked for it to be cooked through. They brought another piece of fish 10-12 minutes later, even more raw. We had to ask again for it to be cooked well done. We took it away, and had to wait another 10 minutes. We even tried to refuse it through another waiter who happened to be passing by and saw our upset faces. They didn't even apologize for the incident; only one waiter, who had nothing to do with our order, modestly said, "Sorry." Overall, the restaurant looks nice, but the service is very poor.

One of the weakest price/performance I've seen in Amsterdam, even though the atmosphere and the looks are just amazing!

The filet mignon at this place was delicious. The Argentinian waiter provided excellent service, and there's a pleasant view of the busy tourist street. Highly recommended!

We sat on the terrace here on a sunny Saturday. There was still plenty of space around 4 pm. The service was a bit slow. I had ordered baguette and iced tea. No napkins came with the bread, so I had to use my own tissues. Then it took a long time again before I could get napkins. Regularly, the wrong orders arrived at the wrong tables. Except for one waiter, they all spoke English. The dinner menu was also taken away while we wanted to order food. The food took a long time to arrive. We had ordered salmon and steak. The salmon was good. The steak was okay. The fries were very crispy, making them hard and not tasty. The salad was a whole head of lettuce with very large leaves, making it difficult to eat and requiring you to cut it yourself. There was also a lot of red onion in the salad. The staff could certainly provide better service. The only staff member who understood the rules was the young man who was also the only one who spoke Dutch; at one point, he ran the whole terrace by himself, and that went very smoothly. The interior inside is beautiful, though. 1950s style. The light in the toilet is very dim. All in all, an okay experience. The bench on the terrace was comfortable.

A very pleasant experience, excellent service, especially from our waiter Lucas, who served us in Spanish, which we greatly appreciated. He was friendly and attentive, always checking if we needed anything. Truly, the service was outstanding. The food and Lucas's recommendations were spot on. Without a doubt, when we return to Amsterdam, we will dine at this establishment again, especially with waiters like Lucas. They make you feel right at home. The service was incredible; 5 stars simply don't do it justice.

Luca gave us one of the best evenings; it's bizarre that a waiter can mean something so beautiful.

Lucas is the best, energetic man!

A very nice place. The cocktails are excellent, the service is quick and friendly. The setting is magnificent. I recommend it.

Beautiful drinks, good atmosphere, lovely bartenders. Would come back. Woop woop to Nathaniel

Very disappointed, we go there very often, normally everything is fine, but today’s waitress was awful, she was very bad, rude, unpleasant and unprofessional.

Cozy Cozy atmosphere Afternoon sun on the terrace

Have had drinks on the terrace a few times already, and now had dinner. Bouillon 3.0! You pay a bit more, still not too much, but you can stay as long as you want. A breath of fresh air, affordable food without being kicked out after 1.5 hours. Steak frites tasty, bisque delicious! Staff amazing, not all of them speak Dutch, but neither do we in Amsterdam.

The place is spectacular! We went twice during our stay in Amsterdam. The service is top-notch. Lucas was always very friendly and kind.

It looks nice, but that's about it. I wouldn't go there again. The wrong order arrived, the drinks were bad, and the staff consistently ignored us. We didn't even get cutlery for our food.

I sat on the terrace alone, but inside it looked beautiful and atmospheric. The wines were delicious. Terrace full of haters. Right in the city center. Great!

The restaurant is beautiful, with an atmosphere that feels both elegant and welcoming. The food was delicious, everything was perfectly executed from start to finish. A special highlight for the terrace, which offers a stunning view, making the whole experience even more enjoyable. A big thank you as well to Lucas, our waiter, for his warm welcome and professionalism. He truly made the afternoon even more special ☺️ Highly recommend!

Beautiful place to enjoy great food

Great bar, our waiter Lucas was so helpful, made our night!

Lucas & Laura their service and kindness gave us amazing energy! Very attentive, lovely place!

Lucas is an amazing person and made my experience even better

Lucas is such an amazing person with good vibes!!!

Lucas, the waiter who served us, was very nice and the food was very good. If we return to Amsterdam, we will repeat

Lucas is the best waiter, attentive and very professional. The interior of the place is charming and elegant.

Lucas was attended to Very professional and attentive Friendly and pleasant

Lucas, very professional, impeccable service. Friendly

Lucas was very professional and friendly, we'll be back!

16€ for "half a cocktail" It's awful

Lucas was great to help. We'll be back!

A nice place. We sat inside but it was too cold because the large windows were wide open. We went to sit all the way at the back. The service was top-notch. The food was nothing special and therefore relatively expensive. The coffee machine was broken, so there was no coffee. They also refused to get it from the neighbors as a courtesy. There was live music, but the clarinet was playing incredibly loud and we really had to speak loudly. All in all, I won't be coming back there to eat. The terrace in the sun in the summer can be nice, of course.

Very chaotic staff; they walked past my table at least 10 times, which made me very uncomfortable. Furthermore, if you ask for a carafe of water, they say no. There are also very few Dutch staff members; I'm done with that too! At the cloakroom, they lost my coat, even though there were only 4 coats there. Very disappointing; I'd rather go to Bouillon, where they understand what real service is and are nicer too!! So, as far as I'm concerned, this place really needs to make a big change or close down!

What a difference after the renovation! The atmosphere has become truly fantastic: stylish, cozy, and with great music. The service was super friendly and fast. Definitely a place you love to come back to!

I have to say, amazing! We opted for the sharing dining concept, which means "And... And." That was truly top-notch! Everything tasted equally delicious: the Sea Bass, the Code du Boeuf, etc. We had the house wine, a Cotes de Cascogne Blanc, which was truly delightful and pleasantly priced! It's also nice for a change not to always pay top dollar for something tasty! Wonderful ambiance! In short, highly recommended!

I spent three nights on the same square in Amsterdam. Three nights I’d never forget: the first two because they were terrible, the third one because Van Rijn was unforgettable. What’s better than good cocktails in an amazing setting? Good cocktails in an amazing setting with GREAT service, love you guys, you’ll be seeing me again ❤️

Great to see Rembrandtplein is elevating its hospitality game. Amazing revamp: food was on point, service attentive - despite how busy it was - and late in the evening it turned even better. Yes, I’m a bit skeptical about touristy squares in Amsterdam but this one is worth the visit.

Its easy to get french cuisine in Amsterdam. Its easy to get a place with a vibe for dinner in Amsterdam. Its not easy to find someone who does both. That was Chez van Rijn

Superb atmosphere! It feels like we've been transported to another era. Truly elegant decor. The food was excellent. We opted for two very good steaks and fries, served with a meat-based sauce and mayonnaise. And their chicken. All accompanied by a warm baguette and garlic butter. Asia, the hostess, was attentive and gracious, as was Emma, ​​the girl who served us at the table. Compliments to the manager and all the staff. I'll be back and recommend it to everyone.

We sat for 40 minutes after ordering food and only once we asked of the status, they realized the order never was processed. beautiful place but very poorly managed

Unexpectedly ended up at Chez Van Rijn on a Friday evening. I used to know this place as De Kroon. Pleasantly surprised by the luxurious, warm atmosphere and the ambiance. Friendly and efficient staff. Dynamic cocktail bar and comfortable sofas. The resident DJ played with the right vibe, and there was also live singing by a very good singer à la “Frank Sinatra”. Super relaxed place with a nice crowd. A great addition to Rembrandtplein and the city!

We stopped to have dinner, but the staff on the terrace didn’t even acknowledge us. In fact, they even suggested that we shouldn’t have dinner there. We asked for the dinner menu three times, and only after insisting did they finally bring it. They were very arrogant and dismissive, especially the young man on the terrace outside. Inside, however, the ladies were very pleasant. The terrace is a BIG NO. I wouldn’t have left this review if we hadn’t been treated with such arrogance and disdain.

We had a really lovely experience! The staff was incredibly friendly and welcoming, which made us feel comfortable right away. The atmosphere was cozy and relaxed, perfect for spending a nice time. We ordered the cheese platter, and it tasted absolutely delicious – a great selection and very well prepared. We would definitely come back again!