Polly Goudvisch in Volewijck

Had some drinks and a few snacks, very good. Would go back.

Food was decent, but they had a great selection of beers and their fries were quite good! Also, service was good! For those visiting from North America, Dutch people are more straight to the point, so don't expect your waiter to serve you the same way someone in Canada or the United States would do. Expect good and polite service.

Cozy setting for hosting a party or reception. Close to Amsterdam Central Station and with parking available nearby.

Nice spot for a drink and a bite to eat

An uncomplicated location for a quick visit.

Nice place in North, close to the ferry behind Central. Friendly staff. Too bad you have to go up a steep flight of stairs to the toilet.

I visited this restaurant at random. The food was very well prepared. The atmosphere was perfect. The service could be improved. The waiters were very stressed and didn't pay enough attention to the customers.

Food was delicious. Not huge portions but definitely ample amounts. Had meat eaters and veggies and choices to suit both Staff attentive and helpful, atmosphere nice enough.

Nice place to grab a quick drink with a portion of bitterballen or a few iesters. Always a relaxed atmosphere and welcoming, friendly service.

I had the steak sandwich, it was really good. The attentive and friendly service was particularly noteworthy.

Fast and good food at reasonable prices. Very friendly staff. Would gladly come again.

Highly recommended. For something quick and good to eat.

We went for a drink before heading home. We were served really wonderfully by a waitress. Delightfully uninhibited, helpful (regarding a mocktail), and with a sense of humor. We would go back there in a heartbeat.

Polly Goudvisch, a modern brown café according to the designer. According to their own marketing, a brasserie. Well, what do you actually want to be? It seems to be little more than just expensive. Not that the staff isn't nice; they are. Not that the service is bad; it is fast enough. What is annoying is that as soon as your glass is empty, you are immediately asked again what you want to drink. Not whether I want another drink, but what you want to drink. If you do need service, it takes a long time. They look across the terrace without seeing anything, and there are many people walking around empty-handed. What puts us off are the prices. A croissant without butter or jam for €5. A Caesar for €20. Really??? The coffees and teas are also on the high end. Everything is geared towards minimum turnover per customer. Because I didn't feel like a guest here. A shame.

Anyone taking the ferry directly from the train station simply must stop at this restaurant. You sit with a view of both the harbor and the canal. We had a delicious meal here on Friday evening at sunset... the eggplants were perfectly prepared. The starters with fresh tuna were delicious. The very friendly service deserves special mention.

Highly recommended - superb food.

These are the best fries I've had this year. Unexpectedly. Attached is a photo taken by A'DAM.

If I could give the service 10/5 stars I would they were very helpful and kind. - English speaking staff made it so much easier and comfortable. Food was great to stop the hunger, got there at 9:40 and was told to order in the next 5minutes. - The English menu is on the QR code. - Sit outside if you want 1 of 2 beautiful waitresses to serve you. I’m sure their sweet smiles will bring returning customers. - all sizes of groups welcome from myself of 1, to family’s an larger groups enjoy a night out.

Very cool Dutch restaurant. Generous portions and delicious food. Very friendly service.

Enjoyed a tasty lunch. Prices are quite high compared to the rest of the Netherlands.

The food was so delicious, the cheeseburger, the service was so good that I could give it five stars, it was incredibly tasty

We went to ADAM lookout first with a group and then came to Polly for dinner afterwards. We had a table outside and very pleasant service. The price for the food is very reasonable. Can recommend for groups of friends for a nice casual drink and good food.

Nice Dutch restaurant with a decent range of local beers and snacks. Everything we tried was delicious and the service was good. Nice terrace right in front of the ferry.

Delicious food. Friendly service and a cozy atmosphere.

Great location to grab a quick drink and bite before crossing the IJ, or simply because you like the location. Also, for the first time in ages, I wasn't addressed in English by the staff 👍🏻

Great place for lunch before our boat/bike cruise

Nice place away from the city center. Just 5 minutes from there. Prices are high (regular for Amsterdam) and dishes are small. Food is very good. Steak was interesting.

Very nice pub 👍🏼 Cozy and friendly staff.

I've had the Polly' breakfast: warm French toast with banana, avocado toast with poached egg, granola bowl with fresh fruit and warm chocolate mouse. All super delicious!

unfortunately had a rather uninspiring meal here — ordered the steak frites and the steak came EXTREMELY DRY and tough (it was also less red than in the picture), i genuinely am confused about how a steak can be literally bone dry, it felt more like an overdone roast beef. fries were very good though i must admit... service was also quite inattentive as the crew rarely came to my side of the restaurant and i asked for tap water once but it never came.

Great food! Welcoming and proactive service

Very nice terrace right by and with a view of the IJ ferry. Great food. Friendly service.

We had a super delicious meal, very flavorful. Good wines and pleasant service. The restaurant has a nice location, and if the weather is nice you can eat outside, which I think is even more relaxing. Inside, however, it is a bit noisy and echoes quite a bit.

A really delicious sandwich with poached eggs and avocado, served with a spinach salad! Absolutely fantastic! Or a steak sandwich. The service was friendly, but she had trouble with the math.

Fast and good service, good food quality, tasty house wine, and great prices. Highly recommended.

Most of the experience was nice - except the part were the youngest waiter forgot my drink order 2 times

The good: Very atmospheric and cozy restaurant at the head of the IJ. Nice hustle and bustle with the ferries and the various bars and restaurants. 5 stars for the staff; friendly folks, neat and attentive. They also speak Dutch, which is a definite plus. Polly's Blondje is a tasty beer! Salmon crudo and steak tartare were fine. The bad: Then there is the food, which is what it's all about in the end... And I'm actually not super enthusiastic about that, just like the business model. We were here with a large group and we could let them know in advance what we wanted to eat. Afterwards, on the bill, you simply pay (royally!!) for side dishes you didn't order. Apparently, the meals came with: - a Caesar salad, a small bowl, which wasn't much more than a few heads of lettuce swimming in a greasy dressing with cheese (at €7.50), without it being ordered and placed on the table; - small bowls of spinach with, once again, a load of cheese. Apart from the fact that it wasn't ordered, this too was really not tasty and cost another €7.50; - apparently, the half chicken didn't come with fries, but the steak did. For a small bowl of fries with mayo, it was another €6.50. Apart from the fact that it wasn't even tasty or a salad—more like a bowl of yogurt with lettuce leaves—the prices were therefore quite bizarre and not ordered. As for the rest: the half chicken was very dry and in parts even tough (even though it is chicken). For €23, there was no side dish included, so you would just be eating a dry chicken. - Steak frites not very special, with a super salty pepper sauce; - for dessert, the sticky toffee was a brownie with a scoop of vanilla ice cream but *no* sticky toffee; - the dame blanche seemed to have the sticky toffee of the sticky toffee, was otherwise not very special. In short: nice location, you pay for that location, the food doesn't live up to it. Quite nice for a drink.

Nice, cozy restaurant... we had a delicious steak sandwich.

Enjoyed a great lunch and coffee on the terrace

Good spot for watching the ferry, good drinks friendly staff

Nice spot. I come here often. It's super cozy here, both inside and out. Good location and a tasty lunch menu. I did find the avocado a bit sour the other day, somehow.

Dear reader, A seemingly small building, with surprisingly many seats. And from an Amsterdam perspective, it includes a relaxed (free) ferry crossing. It is located right next to the ferry terminal, the IJ promenade, and Eye Filmmuseum. A relaxing journey. Michèl

Lovely beer garden, nice atmosphere, delicious food, friendly service

Ordered a chicken bites and they wasn't good at all. Great ambience!!!

The food was great. The bell pepper soup was amaizing. Interior has a nice vibe. The servers were great. Would recommend

After some hesitation about where guests are allowed to park their bikes there, we had a lovely, relaxed business lunch on the sunny terrace. It was a Monday, so fortunately it wasn't packed, ordering went smoothly, and the food was good. The service was good too :-) Dutch-speaking staff and even willing to chat, which is almost a dying phenomenon in Amsterdam. A BLT with fries, just as you would expect. Nothing to complain about.

A coffee...a dessert...my family loved it. I don't eat gluten, so I had a hot chocolate. The service was very quick and the young waiters were all smiles.

Uninteresting taste. Nice place. Poor service. Dog friendly. 6 euros for a small and 10 euros for a large glass of beer. Got the burger with fries. Not impressed. Waiter brought water without glasses. Second waiter brought food without utensils. Third waiter brought glasses and utensils. Nothing personal but the stuff is not trained even to perform the basics of hospitality. Don't seem also to care. Used to be a nice place with good food. It's really a shame.

Trendy place. Cozy atmosphere in a prime location. I find the prices on the expensive side.

Great spot anytime of the day. Staff are so friendly and helpful, especially when Dutch is not your native tongue. Well worth popping in for a cheeky half and bittenballen.

A lot of noise. Cramped space. Few dishes.

He brought our drinks quickly. The food was good, we ordered: half a chicken with spices and a double cheese burger. There was a lot of noise in the restaurant, the service was slow

Great atmosphere and good portion sizes. Excellent value for money.

Good location with good fries, the food doesn’t make you full and the steak pepper sauce was very salty. Would recommend for a drink and a snack.

Very good restaurant. The food is exceptional- the price meets the quality. There isn’t a wide range of food, but we had the soup which was super good, the Caesar salad was delicious and the beetroot scads with burrata was amazing. I would definitely recommend coming,just be prepared to wait for the table and food for a while. The service was also great 😇

Very pleasant place, with an authentic personnality. I liked the atmosphere, and the music. Our beers have been served with a warmful smile. I will come back with pleasure.

Good sandwiches in a great location. Free ferry in 5 minutes from Amsterdam Central Station. Almost like being on the islands.

Steak with fries, taste very good, but the portion size was a joke.

The burger is delicious. The steak is good. The pasta is so-so. The fish is bad.

We found this place has a nice rating and checked it out. It turned out to be a typical amsterdam tourist overpriced bare minimum place. Food dry, tasteless. We ordered a steak, for example, - we were not asked how do we want it, was just brought a super rare and 10 fries in a tiny glass with it. Its hard to describe the bare minimum attitude but you feel so unwelcomed there. Everything says “finish your business and bye see you never” Also, all prices are 20-30% higher from the last year or from the menu pictures you see about this place. Im wondering why this place has a high rating - dont trust it. We didnt see any food from pictures, we got a Temu version of it. Overall just very careless attitude in food and in service. Too overpriced for that bare minimum attitude. When you pay 30-50€ per person for dinner and the experience was bad…. Never again

An intimate place, the food is good. The waitress is very courteous and friendly.

Incredibly friendly service. The snacks, or as they call them, Bar bites, are also great. And you can still go there after 9 pm. That is really nice.

Friendly service and good food. The eggs Benedict was nice.

We had oysters, steak tartare, and a whisky sour. I can absolutely recommend all of them. Very pleasant atmosphere and friendly service.

Super convenient location, delicious coffee, and great service. I sat on the benches myself, which were a bit hard for me. But the service makes up for everything.

We had brunch at this cafe. Doesn’t look like much from the outside but has a nice interior and vibe. All the food was very good in value and taste. The staff were kind and friendly. Coffee was exceptional. Worth a visit if your looking for somewhere to eat after going to the Amsterdam lookout.

A lovely place to enjoy coffee and delicious apple pie. Friendly service.

Always friendly service. Wonderful place!

A great place to meet up and enjoy some delicious food and drinks. Friendly service and a pleasant atmosphere.

Nicely decorated restaurant. Sandwiches costing 12 euros plus have kept pace with inflation. It's nice to look forward to the ferry departing.

Friendly and welcoming staff. I had burrata and melanzane, both delicious.

Lovely terrace, friendly, relaxed staff, and delicious food. Also includes vegetarian and vegan options. Fantastic.

What a brilliant place. Came here twice because the first visit was so good. First time, 11 of us arrived and were a bit of a nuisance, but the service was great and the food was fantastic. Came a second time just two of us, and it was just the same. Loved my food, and looked after as you’d want. Lovely pub even for just a drink.

I tried this lovely restaurant right on the ferry from Central Station with two friends. Because of the good overall rating, I decided to accept the recent negative reviews about the food quality. The service was attentive, enthusiastic, and pleasant. The food arrived quite quickly. We unanimously ordered the half chicken for €25. It came with some vegetables, but the fries had to be ordered separately for €6. To our great disappointment, the chicken wasn't very flavorful and, above all, seemed undercooked. It was a real struggle for all three of us to get the meat off the bone. This, while with a properly prepared chicken, the bones should be easily pulled off the meat. It's truly disappointing how a simple dish like grilled chicken can be served so poorly.

very cold the food was rubbish drinks weren’t very good either a very over priced place

Great staff - very friendly. Cosy atmosphere. Nice food. Gewoon gezellig.

Very cozy atmosphere and nice vegan option.

No fuss, just honest and tasty.

Loved the quality food and cosy local atmosphere

Polly Goudvisch was a fantastic choice for our team dinner and easily accommodated our group of 15. The ferry ride over was incredibly easy, though tourists should note there is a last return ferry, so don’t book too late and risk missing it. The food was absolutely incredible, matched only by the outstanding service throughout the night. One thing to be aware of is that the bathroom is up a very steep set of stairs, which could be challenging for anyone with accessibility needs, though this didn’t impact our experience. Overall, this is a must-stop spot with amazing food, great service, and a memorable setting.

The breakfast croissant was warm and crispy, delicious! However, I only got a knife and no fork, so it was a bit of a mess. The cappuccino was okay. The kids' mini hamburger only had a plain bun with a plain hamburger patty. No lettuce, tomato, or cucumber. One drop of sauce. That's it. With a small portion of fries, which my son thought were okay, and a small container of mayonnaise for €10, I thought it was ridiculously bad. The banana cake was quite large and tasted good. The service is very friendly and goes above and beyond when it's busy, recognizing you when you return. The restrooms were spotlessly clean.

When things get busy they get stressed and panic

We ate here yesterday on a company outing. The service was excellent and the food was delicious! The confit duck leg and the mushroom pâté were my personal favorites. We also enjoyed the delicious cocktails; definitely recommended!

A very pleasant atmosphere with a beautiful view of the water. The food is good, and the service is friendly. A separate room can be reserved for groups of up to about 12 people. Excellently organized.

Great location at the Centraal to Buiksloterweg ferry exit. Stopped by for a beer and a late-light lunch, sat outside on a rare sunny day in December. Good selection of beers on tap, the crispy chicken sandwich and Parmesan and truffle fries were delicious.

Good selection of taps. Pricey though.

Great location, separate room for our group, waitress very professional :)

Visiting Amsterdam again, came across this plave which is right next to the river. What can I say aside from absolutely lovely, the food was very good (bedt steak sandwich i habe EVER had) lovely staff, great atmosphere!! Highly recommend!!

Great food, excellent service. Keep up the good work.

Delicious food, relaxed atmosphere, but noisy acoustics. That's the only thing you have to be able to handle.

All round great. Breakfast options were healthy and good for the price.

My favorite shop in Noord. Always good.

Very popular spot. Food and drinks were delish 😋. Friendly staff !!

We had breakfast here, and I had French toast, which I think was the best I've ever had. My girlfriend also had a truly delicious chai latte, which I highly recommend!

Nice and cozy place, quite area, and friendly staff

Great place. Fantastic location. They make amazing coffee. It's very busy though; the bar is always full. They're trying their best, but it's quite chaotic, so they can't do more. So it depends on what you're in the mood for!

They know what they're doing here. They serve delicious classics.

Dessert and truffle fries were quite nice. Food portions are small for the prices that they have. Service was absolute garbage. Waiter was rude on multiple occasions to different people at the table.

Sigh... This is really hard. We went into the restaurant around 2:40 PM, ordered drinks first, and then ordered food at 2:45 PM. It was past 3:30 PM and the food still hadn't come out, so I asked a staff member. They said they'd check and let me know, but they didn't let me know again. I went again around 3:45 PM to ask another staff member, and they apologized and gave me water. The food came out fifteen minutes later at 4 PM; if it seemed like it was going to take a long time to come out, shouldn't they have told me in advance or at least given me an estimate? It's not like I'm ignoring people, and I understand they're busy, but this just doesn't feel right. When the food came out, I was so angry that I couldn't even taste it and wanted to go home. Only go if you have a lot of time; what's the point of having a lot of staff? Haha. Honestly, I ordered two dishes, and I wouldn't know if it was something that would take a long time, but it wasn't and it only took five minutes to eat.

Best oysters I've ever had! Steak not bad either! All good!