Restaurant 't Zwaantje in Grachtengordel-West

Disappointed because this restaurant does not accept children, we lost our table because we were 15 minutes late and the fries were very average (we were in Brussels at lunchtime!)

Waiters are unpleasant and not welcoming. If you arrive 15min late they will give away your table. You’ll pay for frozen fries, frozen fish. Be careful if you ask for bread they won’t tell you that it’s extra charges… SURPRISE on the bill you have to pay for it and such a salty price for a disgusting frozen bread. The meat was not good either. Disappointed by the place and the people. If I were you I would walk away. Btw you eat on rugs … not tablecloths. Don’t they teach you hygiene rules at school ?

It was very, very nice! We went there as a family. Making a reservation was no problem. The staff was more than friendly. Very accommodating. The atmosphere was very relaxed and traditional. We'll definitely be back!

A wonderful experience on our first night in Amsterdam. A small, quaint, family-owned Dutch restaurant with great food, service, and atmosphere.

food was great but in a hurry to get us out

Amazing time - great food, huge wine and drink menu and personable staff!

't Zwaantje has been a household name for many years. Located near the center, near "the 9 streets". Delicious food!! Soon again! 😀

Delicious with great price. Highly recommend

Great home cooked feel to the food and several attentive and unpretentious guys paid attention to serving us in a friendly way and quickly.

Nice Amsterdam restaurant Small, full, but very cozy Nice, fast service and the food is very good The menu is almost too extensive, there is plenty of choice in both meat and fish From stew to sole, and everything in between

We decided on Café Restaurant 't Zwaantje based on the comments of people visiting this restaurant. To avoid any problems, we booked a table for 6 people well in advance. After arriving at the place, we had no problems choosing dishes and drinks. In addition to beer and a bottle of wine, we ordered soup and 6 meat dishes including: 2x Entrecote ± 250 grams, 2× Tournedos (± 225 grams) with chips and salad 27.75, 1× Veal liver with bacon and onions, 1x Cordon bleu (pork schnitzel stuffed with ham and cheese). All these dishes, as stated in the menu, were served with potatoes or fries and cooked vegetables or mixed salads (The main courses are served with chips or baked potatoes; steamed vegetables or a mixed salad (two choices). After about 35 minutes of waiting, the restaurant staff brought the ordered 6 meat dishes, 3 plates of fries, 1 plate of boiled vegetables and 1 plate of salad mix. When we immediately asked the staff where the missing plates of fries and vegetables were, we received an answer that they were still being prepared and we would get them in a few minutes. After 15 minutes, we had not yet received the ordered additions and we started an intervention with the room manager. Only then did we get the missing elements of the dishes, although not all of them. We didn't want to continue the discussion so as not to spoil our joy of being in Amsterdam. To sum up: we ate cold meat with warm fries. The quality of the dishes was correct.

Didn't have a reservation, but the staff was so kind. Food was phenomenal and the servings were large. We were excited to try it! Shrimp Appetizer, Lobster Bisque, Fish Soup, Grandmother's Meatball, Plaice Fillet - all fantastic!

Very good discovery, the dishes are very good, plentiful and the atmosphere is warm. We highly recommend!

I had a lovely meal here, great food, lovely staff, great service and a lovely atmosphere. It gets busy so best to book.

Do not go to this restaurant if you speak Spanish and do not know fluent English. We went to dinner and just for saying good night in Spanish they treated us terribly throughout the service. They never tried to make us understand each other, I speak a little English and none of my companions, but knowing it they spoke to us as if we were native English, without any empathy on their part, all the time ONLY ENGLISH, they told us. At the end of the service we reproached them for their attitude and they told us what would happen if they entered a Spanish restaurant speaking Dutch, with all due respect, Spanish is a language spoken by more than 500 million people and Amsterdam is a very touristy city and this is a typical Dutch restaurant, we would not be the first Spaniards to dine there, even so, with a little education on their part and my little English would have been fine. The food was average but I think it was because we made the wrong choice and we felt worse, they didn't help us at any time.

My favorite restaurant here for 12+ years! Grandma's classics - delicious. Always enjoy!

I dined at this restaurant on a Friday night with my boyfriend and two friends visiting from out of town. We had an 8:30 pm reservation but were left waiting outside for 20 minutes because our table wasn’t ready—the restaurant was full. To make matters worse, a group of three who arrived after us was seated before us. We were told it was because their table was for three, but once inside, we saw it was actually a four-top. We were finally seated just before 9 pm and placed our order shortly after. Unfortunately, our first course didn’t arrive for another hour and a half—by which point most other tables had cleared out. While the food was good, the long wait made it hard to fully enjoy the experience. The staff was friendly, but while I understand things can get busy, waiting that long—especially with a reservation made a week in advance—was really disappointing. Unfortunately, this wasn’t my first poor experience here; a previous visit with a group of three also involved waiting outside despite a reservation. The food is good, which makes it all the more disappointing—but regrettably, this will be my last visit.

Ottimo cibo locale in un contesto famigliare e accogliente. Il locale è caratteristico e il servizio professionale e gentile. Consigliato.

Excellent food and sublime service. Thank you for your kindness

Here you can find typical dishes from Holland, we tried grandma's stew and it is very very delicious 😋 (you can share this dish with another person). The place is very intimate and the decoration is very authentic (the tablecloths are rugs) with antiques. If you can make a reservation, do so because it fills up very quickly and has a very short schedule of 4:30 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.

Very good traditional cuisine, owner and servers very welcoming and smiling. Fair prices. I recommend

Great restaurant, great quantity and excellent quality. Impeccable service.

Very good restaurant. Emile took great care of us even thought we were very late for our reservation. They were able to accommodate us. Wife ordered the schnitzel and it was delicious. Other items we ordered were also really good. This was a great stop for our first night in Amsterdam!

A typical brown café where reservations are strongly recommended. Very popular with locals. Vast choice on the menu, generous dishes.

Zoals altijd weer uitstekend gegeten. Bediening is vriendelijk. Druk en klein restaurant. Helaas is het wel een komen en gaan restaurantje geworden. Men wil de tafels weer snel leeg hebben dus de bediening werkt op turbo motor. Maar 't Zwaantje blijft een aanrader!

The worst restaurant in my one week in Netherlands. The maître d, if we can even call him that, was not only clearly high as a kite, he was incredibly rude to me and my husband. We walked in at our reservation time at 8.30pm. He made eye contact with us, walked up to us and stared at us, during which we told him about our reservation. He said nothing and ignored us for the next 10 minutes while he popped by multiple tables to chit chat (it would have been acceptable if he was clearing dishes, etc). It is worthy to note that the people he was happy to talk to were white; we’re of Asian descent and look so. When we finally asked him if our table would be ready soon, he had the cheek to retort curtly, “Are you in a hurry?”. We wanted to walk out then and there but decided to stay since the restaurant had good reviews and it was getting late. Turns out, the food is just as horrible as the service. Totally bland and tasteless, something I could have cooked myself (read: tossed in a boiling pot) on a busy weeknight even if I had no culinary experience but clean water and cookware. Hard pass. Patronise if you hate yourself and want to waste money.

Arrived to restaurant, everything seemed fine until we had to wait forever to get served. Waiters kept standing over you with trays, talking extremely loudly and leaning over you to get to reach the bar...once the food arrived... Soup arrived very watery and main was bland. Considering fact of slow service, there were more waiters than actual tables in the restaurant and almost all of the staff were behaving extremely strange, like they are in the fairy world, making weird noises, grinding teeth and constantly clicking fingers... definitely most weird experience I had...

I am from Puerto Rico and I have been able to enjoy many restaurants in my 62 years in various parts of the world. When you go to a restaurant you want to enjoy FAMILY service to be able to taste the culinary art of preparing food. Emilio and his work team were a family serving all their guests in their home in the Netherlands. The food can be compared to a work by master Van Gogh, it is definitely exquisite Dutch food. Thanks Emilio 4/25/2025.

Llegué al restaurante, todo parecía bien hasta que tuvimos que esperar para siempre a ser servidos. Los camareros seguían parados sobre ti con bandejas, hablando muy alto e inclinándose sobre ti para llegar a la barra... una vez que llegaba la comida... La sopa llegó muy acuosa y principal era sosa. Teniendo en cuenta el hecho de la lentitud del servicio, había más camareros que las mesas reales en el restaurante y casi todo el personal se estaba comportando extremadamente extraño, como lo son en el mundo de las hadas, haciendo ruidos extraños, rechinando dientes y constantemente haciendo clic en los dedos... definitivamente la experiencia más extraña que tuve...

Great place for an amazing experience in Amsterdam. Great service and delicious food! Will definitely recommend it to friends!

It's definitely something special, eat on carpets and waiters are a little strange but super friendly. Food was really great!

This place is SO good. The staff is so friendly and super kind. They want you to have the best time, and the food is SO good too. Would highly recommend coming here - we went for dinner and got the chicken in a pot, Grandmas Stew, schnitzel, and the chefs special that night which was lamb kebabs and they were delicious! Definitely make a reservation and you will love this place.

Great place to eat for local cuisine. Family owned and operated. Very good service and food. Recommend Grandma's Beef Stew. Apple pie for dessert. Restaurants fills up quick recommend reservation.

A great local Dutch restaurant that is definitely worth a visit. You should reserve a table in advance. The owner is really nice, receives everything himself. The food is really good, you should try local dishes and the restaurant also takes into account people with food allergies. Some of the younger waiters are a bit in their own worlds when serving food/drinks. I won't go into detail about it. A great local Dutch restaurant, definitely worth a visit. It is worth booking a table in advance. The owner is really nice, welcomes everyone himself. The food is really good, it is worth trying local dishes and the restaurant also takes into account food allergies. Some of the younger waiters are a bit in their own worlds when serving food/drinks. I won't go into more detail about that.

Very nice place, the food was good and prices perfect for Amsterdam. I will repeat for sure.

Ce restaurant est dans quartier calme d’Amsterdam, sorte de bistrot typique avec des spécialités néerlandaises excellentes, que toute bonne grand mère doit servir à ses petits enfants en Hollande. Le patron parle même un peu le français et l’ambiance est chaleureuse et conviviale. Nous avons très bien dîné et passez une agréable soirée. Merci au Concierge de L’InterContinental Amstel de nous avoir conseillé cette très bonne adresse. Nous y retournerons lors de nos prochains séjour à Amsterdam.

Great place with great food! Try pork ribs, it’s delicious!

Good ribs, they were delicious but sides weren’t that good, tried few popular places for ribs in Amsterdam, this was the best, atmosphere is also good and stuff was friendly, also great beer

We found this place when reviewing which of the restaurants in Amsterdam still offered typical Dutch cuisine. This place is highly recommended because they have a large number of typical dishes from the area at a fairly good price. It is advisable to reserve because quite a few people usually go.

Great local food, kind waitors, nice, quiet place and good atmosphere.

Everything we had was delicious and the staff were incredibly friendly.

Amazing experience: super-tasty typical dishes and wonderful staff! Definitely a must while in Amsterdam.

Loved this experience, food was amazing and such a cosy traditional feel.

The food was very delicous and the atmosphere at the restaurant was fully matching the vibe of the food. If you want to try good dutch food - this is your place. Would recommend a table reservation as it gets pretty full after 7.30pm

Very good restaurant in Amsterdam. Impeccable service, wonderful cuisine, and a very good atmosphere. We had a good evening.

ambiente tipico, piccolissimo ristorante con pochi tavoli; curato nei particolari. Consigliato; ottime pietanze. Personale poco empatico

The grndma beef stew was really good

Wonderful restaurant for a dinner, casual atmosphere, tasty food and great service, great! No fuss, just fun.

The welcome is very warm from the team. The cuisine is delicious and far from limited for bon vivants. An address to try.

A bit of a delay in getting our table ready. 15 minutes. Very good restaurant.

Great food, good price, friendly staff

I loved this place! I went here on my first night in Amsterdam looking for a traditional Dutch meal. Emil was so kind. He was able to seat me at the bar (even with a booked evening) and helped with ordering. He also helped with other local spots to visit. The food was delicious. I’d high recommend making a reservation before going!

Delicious food. Extensive map. Very friendly and pleasant service. Small point... we were 15 minutes early and had to have a drink somewhere else. It was worth the wait.

This is the best Dutch restaurant in Amsterdam by a good margin. Not pretentious by any means, just a wholesome, old fashioned Dutch establishment serving familiar Dutch and European cuisine in a cozy environment right in the heart of Amsterdam. Reservations are a must for this popularity amongst Jordaan's locals. Each night features specialties along with the nightly menu items. Great beer and wine selection. Quiet and cozy atmosphere ideal after a long day exploring or a romantic evening with somebody special. Also very welcoming for solo dining. Tell Gabriel, Sarah and the entire staff hi, who are the best wait at staff in Amsterdam!

Not a touristy place, family atmosphere, great service, food like at home.

Feels like the dutch grandma you never had is cooking for you! The place is incredibly comfortable and cozy, but the staff truly makes this restaurant amazing! Attentive and genuinely incredible waiters that took care of us like we are family. We will come back as soon as we can Tip: Make a reservation, as they are quite known now and always well visited!

Milking the so-called old-fashioned Jordaan pub into a restaurant with mediocre food. Friendly service, but all very dirty. Old-fashioned could be cleaner.

Traditional Dutch meals that were very comforting!

Absolutely AMAZING experience!!! Can't recommend this restaurant enough. The food was incredible, well cooked, extermely homemade and delishious! The place in itself is really cozy and traditional looking, but over all... We have to say the service is the best. Everyone in the restaurant was really attentive and kind but especially the waiter that took care of our table Gabriel was really excepcional... He made our night truely special, speaking with patience and love to our mom, being on top of every little detail of our meal.. honestly without words with this dining experience... Felt authentic, food was so yummy and a service that made you feel at home. Thanks so much for making our last dinner in Amsterdam so wonderful. Don't miss out and go enjoy this place !!

Well, an Amsterdam classic. Still, it was a huge disappointment. I used to go here as a teenager with my godparents, so I had high expectations. Uninspired service, food was reasonable, but not good. All fine, but I won't be back.

Friendly staff, fast service, very good dishes of both meat and fish, normal price. Recommended.

amazing little place. i highly recommend making a reservation we got lucky & only had to wait 10 mins to get a table. very lucky. also we had 2 entrees & a drink cost was 44Euro. very affordable. thank you for having us.

Honestly this place was super cozy, service amazing and food was impeccable. This has absolutely become a go to place for me whenever I'm in Amsterdam. Highly advise calling ahead and making a reservation.

Cozy and always full. Nice service and quite tasty food.

Love this place! Food is great, amazing atmosphere

The service was excellent. We stumbled across this gem unexpectedly while traveling and were glad to get some authentic Dutch food. The place was popular and every table was taken, but the servers managed to get us in without a reservation. Great service. The apple pie was particularly good and beautifully presented.

Very good homemade Dutch cuisine and very good attention from the staff.

Excellent service, very charming and well decorated place and the food is impressive, a 10!

Restaurant in the atmosphere of an estaminet. Simple but good food. The small problem: the waiter did not start the order in the kitchen, so the service was very long. Offering coffee could have been the minimum.

Very good food and a great atmosphere, very cozy.

True Dutch cuisine, excellent soups and meat accompanied by purees and vegetables. Cozy place, fast and precise service

Very characteristic place, we ordered a truly delicious single dish from the specialty menu, super generous portions, young and friendly staff, excellent value for money!

I love to bring visitors here for a real taste of the Dutch kitchen. Staff are lovely and a really nice ambience.

Very nice restaurant. The spare ribs are amazing!! Also the steak is very nice. Mushrooms not so much. Would come back!! Very good price/quality.

Very tasty food, with nice choices and very nice decoration. I would go again for sure.

I was able to celebrate my birthday in a super fun, no-nonsense way. Nice large card, lots of choices and everything 100 points

"We chose this place based on the good reviews it had and, honestly, we were very happy. The atmosphere is very calm and familiar, which made our stay very pleasant. The service was excellent, the staff always friendly and making sure that we were well and that we were not missing anything. In addition, the food was delicious, which made our experience even better. We would definitely eat here again."

We went for a romantic dinner on the canals of Amsterdam. We recommend booking, although the very friendly staff works hard to find a free table. The dishes were excellent and plentiful (we tried the Dutch meat specialities). Paid the right amount. Highly recommended

Great place to relax and grab some food. Big portions. Easy 10/10 from me! Great service. Would like to return!

I just stopped in for an appetizer, passing through and wanted a drink. Everything was good. No regrets everything was great.

Super good food, super kind service and super pleasant ambience. Very recommended!!

A cozy bar restaurant with delicious food, large portions, very friendly staff. Fast service, reservations are recommended.

So incredibly delicious! Enjoy old-fashioned fun.

Great place to enjoy traditional Dutch cuisine. The food is hearty and satisfying, and the atmosphere is incredibly welcoming. Perfect for a relaxed dinner!

Нам этот ресторан порекомендовали жители Амстердама (правда не голландцы:)) в ответ на наш запрос где можно попробовать настоящую голландскую кухню. Столик бронировали заранее. Вечером без бронирования попасть проблематично. Мне понравилось. Еда вкусная (хотя, конечно, голландская кухня на любителя:)). Обслуживание отличное. Атмосферно. Рекомендую.

Very good atmosphere and very attentive staff. The food was very good

Amazing traditional Dutch restaurant. Highly recommend it here. The decor is querky & chic. The service was warm & friendly, Stan looked after us very well. The ribs were delicious 😋

I am from Ecuador and I went to eat with a friend, we had one of the best experiences in terms of service and attention from Mr. Stijn, very friendly and attentive. Mention of course the food, all exquisite, as well as the wine. Highly recommended to come with family or friends.

I always bring my parents here when they visit Amsterdam because it never lets us down. The food is consistently great and the restaurant is so cosy. If you want some comfort food that is not pretentious, this is the place to go.

Excellent food, impeccable service, an address to recommend. Looking forward to going back. I had dinner with 3 other colleagues and it was very pleasant.

¡Qué fantástico restaurante! Deliciosa comida, cálido ambiente acogedor y un servicio súper amable. No puedo hablar lo suficiente de este restaurante. Una necesidad absoluta si quieres probar algo de cocina local!

Cena con la famiglia.Personale gentile servizio veloce,piatti abbondanti e molto buoni sia quelli di carne che di pesce.

Most beautiful restaurant in Amsterdam. Super tasty, incredibly friendly staff. So warm and accommodating. Top price performance. Absolutely recommended

Great time, super good, super delicious grandmother's specialty. thank you for everything

Excellent !!! To recommend without hesitation!!! Home cooking, friendly atmosphere. Everything is perfect

Delicious food in a nice atmosphere

Great service, the servers are all very warm, attentive, and accommodating!! The dishes were also very good, and we did not wait long to be served (Sunday evening - 6:30 p.m.) We recommend the pea soup, and one of the traditional dishes, the last on the list with a ball of meat.

Excelente restaurante con comida fantástica, y personal muy amable y servicial. La olla de sello holandés fue excepcional, y también como postre la sémola holandesa es muy muy bueno. Recomiendo a fondo.

Perfect Fresh and local cuisine Reasonable prices for the quantity on the plate Very pleasant staff We loved eating at this restaurant!! I recommend

Authentic atmosphere. Site with a lot of personality. Sexy and charming staff! Very tasty and well presented food. Very nice music. Good prices! To return and recommend!!!