Stadscafé Blij in Wijk 10 Binnenstad

Very disappointing. First of all they were racists. The girl who took us over didn't want to speak English, so she had another colleague take us over. They sent my friends and me to a booth, even though there were plenty of free tables. My food was cold, they also forgot about the appetizer, even though it was on the bill. They made fun of one of my friends' choice, related to his choice of food ordered. And of course they also forgot about the food added to the package, leaving us waiting 15 minutes outside. Terrible, I don't recommend it to anyone.

The food was mediocre and lukewarm/cold, partly due to the order of service. Serving the food first and then having to wait a long time for the cutlery certainly doesn't help. All in all, we were not left "happy".

Received with a group of 9 without a reservation on a Saturday. Truly excellent. First the positives: The first round of drinks went at a good pace, as did the starter and main course. The food itself was good. The meat from the mixed grill was tender and the mustard soup was daring in terms of flavor, but therefore really tasty. My colleagues' hamburgers didn't look very appetizing; I wouldn't recommend those. Two negative points that really ruined the evening. A fellow diner hadn't ordered fries, but received them anyway. When he pointed this out, they made a joke of it, typical of the hospitality industry. Of course, the fries were still added to the bill. After the main courses, our table ceased to exist. Main courses were no longer cleared, drink orders were not taken, and there was no option for dessert. We had to walk to the cashier ourselves to pay. There was also no question asked if everything had been to our liking.

Got the wrong roll, mentioned it a bit. The first thing they asked was: have you taken a bite yet? Which clearly wasn't the case. Then she had to go to the kitchen to consult about what they were going to do; well, it could go back... but getting a new one was going to take a while... so there you are, eating alone with your company. It can happen, of course, no problem, but absolutely no apologies, as if I was a burden to them. I had ordered a brie roll. It was generously topped with brie, but it was only half a small roll, which, by the way, was swimming in honey. Not for me again.

Amazing date night at Stadscafé Blij in Zwolle! ✨ What a fantastic spot on the Grote Markt. The 3-course menu was delicious, the atmosphere is super cozy, and the staff were incredibly kind. An extra surprise: Blij is much bigger than it looks and has multiple rooms for parties and drinks. We will definitely be back! 🥂❤️

We arrived on time (5:00 PM) with 8 people because we had a performance at De Spiegel in the evening. We immediately ordered drinks, bread, and food. The drinks and bread arrived after about 20 minutes, but the rest of the tapas still hadn't arrived. After asking twice where they were, and after 1.5 hours, still nothing. We were assured three times that it would be here soon. Finally, after asking for the third time, we received our tapas after 2 hours. Something had gone wrong in the kitchen. The food was good, it's just a shame that it didn't arrive until after 2 hours. We heard that this happens regularly 🥴

Delicious food, but the service was less than ideal. It started drizzling just as we sat down, and both the lady at the table next to us and I are wheelchair users and therefore cannot go inside. However, they made a huge fuss about putting out a parasol so that we could sit dry too. I found that really a bit unpleasant. So we just have to get wet? Also, the water I ordered for my medication didn't arrive. That really needs to be handled with a bit more urgency. Hopefully, it will go better next time, because my boyfriend and I thought the food was very tasty and offered excellent value for money! :)

Had a delicious fish lunch. Tip: put a little less onion on the tuna.

I am not easily dissatisfied, but this afternoon was a less than pleasant experience. The four of us sat down on the sunny terrace. It was busy, so we knew we would have to wait a bit. That is logical when the sun is shining and half of the Netherlands is sitting on the terrace. However, after half an hour, no one had come by to take our drink order. This was also the case at the other three tables next to us. Finally, when the waiter arrived—who was left somewhat to his own devices—he didn't quite manage to take our order. Unfortunately, it also took a very long time for the drinks to arrive. By then, the drinks were finished and our food arrived, which was lukewarm. During the meal, no one asked once if everything was to our liking or if we wanted another drink. All in all, it was a waste of money. Additionally, the wait staff wouldn't have noticed if we had simply walked away. Very disappointing.

We came here for a nice lunch and the food tasted really good! Unfortunately, the rest didn't go quite as smoothly. We had to wait an incredibly long time for two rounds of drinks and our lunch. When the plate finally arrived, the food was unfortunately barely warm anymore. What also really bothered us were the pigeons on the terrace. Because empty plates from previous guests were left standing, there were pigeons constantly sitting right next to our table eating those leftovers. That doesn't exactly make for a fresh-looking meal.

Waited 10 minutes at an empty table. Still no one. Bye.

Had to wait 1.5 hours for food and drink. Once and never again.

Sit back and relax, and enjoy tasty snacks with your drinks. Butterfly prawns this time. Delicious.

We wanted a light meal and ended up at the Stadscafe during our stroll. The service was friendly and quick, and the food was perfectly fine. The payment process, however, was rather odd. They read out our order, but didn't show us the individual items; they simply told us the total amount. Since I also wanted to pay the tip by card, they entered the entire sum into the card reader without showing it to me. I then asked for the bill. It showed that I had been overcharged by €10. According to the server, she misunderstood me. I was told to sort it out inside with a colleague. The colleague promptly gave me the €10 back in cash. Judging by his expression, this wasn't the first time something like this had happened. Mistakes can happen, but the fact that they didn't itemize the bill or show me the card reader left a bad taste in my mouth, at least as a tourist.

Had a delicious meal, beautiful location in the heart of Zwolle, and a spacious venue. Also available for rent for weddings, meetings, etc.

We were falsely accused of not paying our bill in front of a full terrace. Even though, in hindsight, we actually paid €20 too much; after this confrontation, the staff offered no apologies… but we were humiliated in front of a full terrace…

Sort of okay Upon arrival, I asked outside if there was room inside. I was laughed at as if I were speaking another language... that I should do that inside. Nice spot inside, efficient waitress. She had her act perfectly in order in that regard!! Ordered a bread board and a couple of main courses. The dips on the bread board had been prepared a few hours earlier. Color difference after spreading, juice on the pesto, etc. No shortage of spare ribs, though a bit tough and not really warm... chicken satay more sauce than satay... fries were great, but when asked they acted like they were included. Subsequently paid a polite €5 twice for them. All in all, the food is a minus point, atmosphere is a nice spot in the city and the interior is nicely decorated.

Wow! What service. Last Saturday, after a wedding with 80 people, we sat here for drinks and snacks. The staff were so sweet and so patient. Thanks to them, we had a fantastic day/evening. Everything was perfectly arranged!

Upon entering, it took quite a while before we could order lunch. After waiting for half an hour, no one had come, so we spoke to the staff and placed an order. Something had gone wrong with the order, so after a long wait we spoke to the staff again and had to order over... When the sandwiches finally arrived, the Pulled Chicken was cold. We returned it. We ate the 'warm' sandwich together, because waiting for the new pulled chicken sandwich took so long again. After speaking to the staff again, the sandwich still hadn't arrived. We paid and left. Very disappointing. Not happy at Blij...

The coffee is absolutely not at the right temperature. For me and my friends. Drink it immediately when it arrives. It just depends on what you like.

My daughters took me out for my birthday. A high tea at Blij. What a disappointment. We had reserved in advance and clearly stated our wishes. 1 person wanted vegetarian and 1 person wanted fish. Unfortunately, nothing was done about this. Many fish sandwiches (6) for 1 person, which was way too much. This is just one of the things that went wrong. At a high tea, I expect something different!! It is such a shame that the whole situation put a damper on what should have been a pleasant afternoon. Tip: If you want to visit Blij, make sure you have time and patience!

We had reserved a high tea and were fortunately able to sit outside. The tea arrived quickly at the start, and there was fresh mint and ginger, which we really enjoyed. Additionally, there were various tea bags to choose from. Personally, I had expected a bit more fresh tea or fresh herbs for a high tea. When making our reservation, we had clearly indicated that one person eats fish, one person is vegetarian, and the other two do not eat fish. Initially, we received a platter with various sandwiches, but unfortunately, there were no fewer than six sandwiches with fish, two vegan sandwiches, and a few with meat. Everything was mixed together, and the sandwiches were also touching each other. As a result, three of us couldn't eat the fish sandwiches anyway, while the person who does eat fish obviously didn't need six sandwiches with fish. We therefore asked if we could get different sandwiches. Unfortunately, we had to wait about 30 minutes for this. Eventually, we did receive tasty other sandwiches, some fruit, and some sweet treats. However, this too was all thrown together. Consequently, it unfortunately did not look like what you would expect from a high tea: cozy, well-presented, and atmospheric. Additionally, we received no explanation about exactly what was on the sandwiches. When we asked about this, the answer we received was: “Can’t you see?” We found this very disappointing and not very hospitable. We simply wanted to know what we were eating. We also had to ask for new tea ourselves several times. In total, we received tea three times in two hours. For a high tea costing approximately €35 per person, we found this to be very little, especially since we had to ask for it ourselves multiple times. Ultimately, in our opinion, we mainly received two small sandwiches per person, some fruit, and some sweet treats. All in all, the high tea was unfortunately a major disappointment. In our view, the communication, the handling of our reservation requests, the waiting time, having to ask for tea ourselves, and the presentation of the food could really have been better. To be honest, for about €35 per person, we had expected more from this.

There was a major staffing problem that evening. My mocktail, filled to the brim with crushed ice, arrived without a straw, so I couldn't drink it. After asking twice, with two different waitresses, a straw finally arrived after 10 minutes. After a long wait and several more requests, the menu arrived. More waiting and asking again to order. The food arrived after a reasonable amount of time (15-20 minutes), but without cutlery. More requests. I also asked to pay and waited. Eventually, I got up and asked a server where I could pay. All the servers were friendly, but they were new and simply too few for the number of tables outside. It was a real shame; it was a lovely summer evening that turned into a very frustrating experience.

I ordered a carpaccio which I sent back because it had an excessive amount of truffle mayonnaise on it. And the Parmesan cheese was replaced with young matured cheese. I find it a bit expensive for the quality.

Very bad experience, never coming back here again. We came here for lunch, a pulled chicken sandwich and 2 veal croquette sandwiches. When we received the food and my girlfriend went to try a piece, she immediately said that it didn't taste like a veal croquette and it didn't look like one either. I received a small piece and it indeed did not taste like a veal croquette. After waiting 5 minutes to speak to a waitress, we asked her if this was correct, and she doubted it, so she took the plate back to the kitchen. After 10/15 minutes, a waiter returned with the news that this was supposed to be a veal croquette and said that we had ordered this when he was told that it certainly didn't taste like one. He very nicely told us that we could get a beef croquette if we wanted; to which we replied yes please, because this one is now cold and not tasty at all. We waited for more than 20 minutes and received nothing, while others around us did get food even though they had ordered later. We got up, paid the bill, and the waitress was astonished that we hadn't received a new bread roll. Of course, we had to pay the full price for everything, even though we managed to leave an entire dish untouched due to how the staff treated the guest.

Helped by the enthusiastic Kim, you're a star! Super nice girl who loves her work! All the love to you ❤️ Greetings from the girls who asked for your name!

Just having lunch at Blij Zwolle... hmmm, what can I say? Ordered drinks for two and got them for one... that happens, so I just ordered another drink. The food went wrong too; ordered veal croquettes twice and, yes, you guessed it, served incorrectly at the table as well. Instead of veal, we were served vegetable croquettes. A couple of young ladies were sitting next to us and received the wrong order too! Well, a missed opportunity. It is a nice place to sit, though.

It didn't really make me happy. The fresh mint tea for €3.90 wasn't hot water but almost cold water with 1 sprig of mint that was already brown and dead yesterday, yuck, so it didn't taste good either. I had ordered a flammkuchen with sun-dried tomatoes and related ingredients, which was very meager and hardly recognizable anymore. Small flammkuchen (the smallest ever) adapted to the wooden cutting board on which it is served. Soggy, moist, and undercooked. The service was friendly.

Had a delicious meal for a good price. Very friendly staff.

The staff is busy with everything and anything except the guests. Setting up the parasols seems to take ages. The food is terrible... please fire the cook... This location should be a 'Top-notch' establishment, not a 'nearly-but-not-quite' one.

Every time I come to Zwolle, I go to this restaurant to eat, and the food there was always good. But unfortunately, that was not the case today. Yes, there were a lot of people on the terrace, but that is no reason for such bad service. We ordered tomato soup and a Caesar salad with chicken. Regarding the salad: the chicken was tasty, but the salad itself was simply terrible. There were large chunks of onion in it, but that is bad enough. The tomatoes and cucumbers still had their stems on. Additionally, we found a hair in the salad. When we told the waitress about this, she said she was going inside to ask the manager what she should do. The waitress came back and said that we had to go inside, because they were waiting for us there. Inside, there was only a woman behind the bar. We said we wanted to pay and told her again about the situation with the salad. She didn't respond to anything, acted as if it didn't interest her at all, and just said: “Yes.” We would have liked to hear at least a simple “sorry.” After all, it concerns food, and it was truly a very unpleasant experience. I would prefer not to return here in the future.

Had a drink outside on the terrace. Prompt and friendly service. Serving the food took a bit long.

We waited for a soup for 40 minutes. Thats unacceptable.

Had a delicious lunch with the four of us, carpaccio toasties and the happy chicken.

You have to pay extra for this if you order with a QR code You have to pay to pay, ridiculous

My partner had asked if it was wild salmon. The answer was, "Yes, fresh every day!" It arrived on my plate and turned out to be just farmed salmon! Very disappointing. I've been coming here for 18 years but you won't see me back again. I explained to the waiter the difference between wild and farmed salmon! Luckily, the salmon was deducted from the price after I insisted! After all, they charge the price for wild salmon...! while farmed salmon is half the price, that rubbish. But I am really disappointed. I've been 18 for 18 years but you won't see me back... I just feel ripped off.

The terrace was full, unlike the surrounding restaurants... a good sign in general, you would think... Man, what an incredibly bad place!! Wine and beer from the bottle warm😡. According to the waiter, the cooler is broken!🤔. Messy service! Food served was slightly different from what was ordered, and already lukewarm because the servers just couldn't figure out who ordered what... all in all, just downright bad!!

Nice place to have a drink! The terrace is wonderfully central, the atmosphere is good, and the staff always helps you with a smile.

It takes a long time before you can order, and it also takes a long time for your order to arrive. Otherwise, it's a pretty decent little place.

The cola was not cold and had no fizz, but the deluxe nachos were very tasty.

Great place to eat, nice and busy

The staff is friendly. The food is really tasty. However, the staff is difficult to reach. We had to wait a long time before we could ask someone if we could pay. We didn't get any eye contact.

Always a nice place to visit , good food and drinks , great also as nice place to sit outside and enjoy the city of Zwolle. Staff are friendly and helpful.

Highly recommended. The service was super friendly, attentive, and fast. The food was incredibly delicious! I had the marigold with salmon and have rarely eaten better pasta 😍.

Tasty apple pie. But cold coffee and tea twice. The owner does not bother to offer his apologies personally. The staff is also not impressed by the complaint.

The best goat cheese sandwich in the Netherlands! We often come all the way from Alkmaar during our holidays to come here for this sandwich. Beautifully situated and a real treat in the center of Zwolle.

The terraces on the square look inviting, so we take a seat for lunch. I order and pay for the sandwiches and drinks via the QR code. The table is filthy beyond words and the menu is completely sticky. Well over half an hour later, and after asking three times, the sandwiches finally arrive. The toasted sandwich is lukewarm and the drinks haven't arrived yet. Time to ask again. I am snapped at in a totally unfriendly manner that it is simply busy at the bar. When the drinks finally arrive after 45 minutes, they are no longer warm. They are unresponsive to my complaint. Once is enough, never again.

We enjoyed drinks and delicious snacks here today with five people. The snacks did not arrive at the same time. We were missing two snacks. Without us having to ask, this was checked with us and passed on immediately. A little later, we received them after all. That shows good service. The patio heating was also pleasant. The only downside was people smoking on the terrace. I don't know if that is allowed. This was just a minor detail.

Nice and busy on the terrace, the staff some friendlier than others. You order something to drink and some fast food: chicken nuggets, meatballs with two sauces, and butterfly shrimp. The meatballs were served incorrectly—which can happen—and I received bitterballen with mustard in a small pot. I pointed this out politely, but the friendliness quickly diminished. 15 minutes later I received the correct portion: the meatballs were lukewarm, and one pot of sauce was already cold and had a layer on top. I just left this alone; I suspect it had simply been left standing there and those bitterballen belonged to a different order. For the sake of peace, I left it like that to avoid further unfriendliness. When settling the bill with a genuinely friendly waiter, we heard that everything was being charged, including the misordered bitterballen. This was quickly rectified, though, so good try. Happy ???? We were not happy about it.

We were there today, July 20th. The service was good, even though it was packed around lunchtime. They had bitterballen, fries, tarte flambée, and mustard soup. Everything was hot and very, very tasty. We'll definitely be back.

Reserved for lunch. Upon arrival, we were walked past three times without even saying 'hello'. We were served drinks quickly; unfortunately, Bradley's tea was very tasteless and lukewarm. Lunch proved difficult due to allergies (nuts and peanuts). The first waitress said that everything would contain nuts and peanuts. The second waitress was able to qualify that statement, and it turned out that they couldn't completely eliminate traces, which is understandable. The food was disappointing: one thin slice of bread with a little ham, lettuce, and sauce. My husband had a different dish, but the ham had been replaced with chicken. It wasn't expensive, but the portions were very small. Feedback went unanswered, not even a 'what a shame that it was disappointing'. Nothing to be happy about. We certainly won't be coming back.

Nice terrace, but otherwise mediocre.

Beautifully situated, with good seating options both indoors and outdoors. Well-coordinated and friendly service. All in all, very good.

Thank you for your part in a more than successful surprise party! Special thanks to Jesse, who also did a fantastic job with the children present 👌🏻

Friendly staff, but the food wasn't really great.

Ball pit, paid a deposit for a pitcher but absolutely couldn't get it back.

What a disaster last night. We are never coming back here! Bad food and bad service. Tucked away in a room, we finally received our lukewarm wine, cola, and iced tea after 25 minutes. Then we had to wait another 20 minutes to order our food. The starters were still tasty, but the main courses were downright bad. Personally, I had the mixed grill, with a pork tenderloin that was cooked to a greyish hue, a steak that was still almost raw in some places but already grey in others from the heat lamp, and a piece of chicken that was half so black you couldn't eat it. Only the spareribs were good. When the wait staff finally comes to ask how the food was after 30 minutes, after you've signaled multiple times for them to come, they make a fuss about the fact that you actually ate some of it! Eventually, you are offered a laughable 20% discount that they ultimately don't apply at the cash register, meaning you have to go back again. Furthermore, the baked potato was just like a hard-boiled potato with some sauce. Other main courses weren't great either. Then came the rudeness from the restroom attendant about having to pay €1 to pee during a music festival on the square, and her refusal to believe you were a customer, insisting you tell her exactly which table you were on. We always enjoyed eating here, but we will never, ever come back. A music festival on the square shouldn't be an excuse, but the manager clearly thought it was. People: save your money and go eat somewhere else in Zwolle!

Nice terrace, friendly staff, but unfortunately not enough vanilla in the Pornstar Martini.

Too bad, we don't speak Dutch. We ordered, the drinks arrived fairly quickly, but somehow we got one beer too many. Unfortunately, the porters didn't inform the order takers. When it came time to pay, and since there were no receipts, everything was read to us very (very) quickly. And the Dutch speak incredibly fast, anyway, we paid for three drinks and only got two. Fifty-fifty mistake. Tip: pay attention. The Spritz was also too weak, but the house beer was good.

Slow service and incomplete orders. Not recommended!

Went out for dinner with a group of 18 people and had to wait half an hour for drinks every time. The food was cold, and we didn't receive any salads with the main course. We didn't get dessert at all; we were done with it so quickly. Not recommended for large groups!

The food was fine, but the service was appallingly bad. We had to wait longer than half an hour for drinks on several occasions, despite repeatedly asking the staff about the status. Also, after everyone had finished eating, they brought out large bowls of salad. No one had an appetite for it anymore. Not recommended.

I found the food mediocre. The mustard soup was very salty and I left it. The mixed grill was lukewarm. The location, atmosphere, and service were top-notch and made up for the evening!

You are waiting a very long time for your bill, last time.

Very poor service. We had to wave our hands around for about 40 minutes before a waiter finally came to let us pay.

What a sad Caesar salad. An egg, a bowl of lettuce, and mostly nothing but pickles. Not recommended.

It doesn't make you happy. What a disaster. Even a portion of bitterballen is a struggle.

We 'ate' here on Thursday evening, June 4th.... For starters, carpaccio... very bad!! Sliced ​​way too thick... loaded with truffle mayonnaise, not a pine nut to be found... I left my plate untouched except for 3 bites... then the waiter comes to ask if he can clear the plates. We say that of course that is allowed... he asks if we enjoyed it. ...uh, can't you see the plates are still full... I explain my complaint... then the man says... shall I pack it up for you... I reply... don't you understand what I'm saying... oh right, he says and walks away... no reaction or anything... later I speak to a waiter about the incident... she seems to understand and said she would just check in... then the waiter in question comes over asking what he can do for us.... I politely tell him what happened and that I find it remarkable that nothing is being done about it... then he says again... yes, and what do you want me to do for you now.... sorry, but I really don't understand this..... you take 1 full and 1 half-full plate off the table... with a complaint.... and then you go ask us what we want ?????. I find this way of handling complaints really veeeery peculiar..... eventually they 1. took the Carpaccio off the bill because none of it had been eaten.... we left our main course untouched. We paid the bill and got a snack elsewhere. In short... do something with it... never again for us.

The carpaccio was brown and the bread hard, stale, and dry. The frozen cappuccino and the smoothie are practically never in stock. Unfriendly staff.

Sten.. he made our lives better, really good service, beyond perfect! Hope i can get this kind of service every time 🤜🏼🤛🏼

I'd like to order something else, but no one came to take my order. Spoke to the waitress, she'll be right there. Fifteen minutes later, no one. Glass turned upside down, finally, would you like another one? Cleaning a dirty table, never heard of it.

Not recommended. Terrace cushions filthy with bird droppings. Menus (all of them) dirty. Tables all dirty. Someone wipes it down, notices something a bit more stubborn but it isn't fixed. Downright, everything was basically filthy. But it was busy, so we'll give it a chance from here. 15 minutes later, and the second time we asked for service, we were helped. Ice tea green and sparkling didn't see a fridge today, lukewarm to warm. Nothing else was mentioned about this. Staff are very poor communicators, lack transparency or honesty, and are not welcoming. The waitress feels no (positive) social pressure and looks quite lazy. No action, no welcoming, you see hands raised everywhere, and this lady is standing there quietly chatting with colleagues. Downright unsuitable for the hospitality industry. The owner is very lucky with the location. 1 star for the hardworking young man who ran the drinks today. Great job, keep it up!

We attempted to grab a bite and a drink on the terrace this afternoon. Downright bad. The young waitress is absolutely not well-trained and doesn't seem to know what she's doing. We asked to order, to which she replied that we had to wait a moment. After that, she still didn't come, so we asked again if we could order something; she had forgotten. That can happen, of course. The drinks arrived quickly but were almost warm from the outside temperature and I don't think they had been in the fridge for a moment. You obviously can't serve it like that. The Udon noodles and chili nuggets were very tasty though! The benches were covered in bird droppings and every table we wanted to sit at was dirty with sticky menus. In short, train your staff and make sure the tables are wiped down regularly. It's a nice location to sit, but that's about it.

Waited well over 2.5 hours for food. At one point, a waitress walks by and says "enjoy your meal" from a distance, but no one asks if it is to your liking. Waiting for the fries that never came... no, not coming back here.

Beautiful building, a nice labyrinthine passage. Had a delicious lunch. Attentive service.

We arrived well in advance before the rush, having a nice chat with my girlfriend, and saw tables around us who arrived later getting their food earlier than us, even groups of 6 people before us. In the end, we just had to wait more than an hour for the food... the atmosphere is okay, but the waiting time could be shorter.

We had a great lunch here. Everything went smoothly and was tasty. The tea could be a bit warmer.

Had ordered a cocktail but didn't get it, don't go!!!!

A ‘HAPPY’ compliment! We were warmly welcomed and were seated at a reserved table with our party of 6. The service was prompt, attentive, and ensured that we wanted for nothing. Both lunch and dinner were wonderfully prepared — so good, in fact, that we were happy to return later in the evening to dine as well. A cozy atmosphere, hospitable staff, and delicious food: highly recommended!

I had reserved a table for 2 people online for King's Day, for 8:30 PM. The reservation was confirmed by email. When we arrived at 8:30 PM, we saw that people were already sitting at the table we had reserved. When we asked the waitress about this, she said that a reservation doesn't mean you actually get that specific table...😳?! Why make a reservation then??? This isn't mentioned anywhere. She kept repeating this. She did have another table available... She walked with us to a small room with a few high tables. I cannot sit there due to my pelvic instability (which is why I reserve a table). And I am not going to sit in some weird little room while I have a reservation. We left... We didn't eat or drink anything. We had been looking forward to this. So, making a reservation means nothing here...

Deeply, deeply insulted by this company. We were scammed by a local con artist with whom we thought we were having a nice day; in the end, we had to pay for all his food and drinks, and we were treated very disrespectfully by Cafe Blij.

We ate at Blij tonight. My boyfriend had a mixed grill, but the meat was really cold. The staff took his food away and he did get warm meat in return. Anyway, it's about principles; furthermore, we had to pay the full amount, as it wasn't resolved with a discount or a drink on the house. We also had to wait a really long time for everything. This was a one-time thing and never again! The food is definitely not worth the money either!

Great atmosphere and a lovely view of the main square. The deluxe nachos are beautiful to look at, delicious to eat, and generous in size. Stan is great: smiling, friendly, and always professional.

Grand! Delicious salads, friendly and helpful staff. A very good experience.

Great place, great food,wonderful people

Had lunch today at city cafe Blij in Zwolle. Blij egg with carpaccio served with a slice of rustic brown bread. The food was tasty but not very special. The atmosphere, right in the middle of Zwolle, was very cozy. The only thing that bothered me was that the staff addresses you informally and asks "how did it taste?". Of course, that could be the concept or the generation, but I still prefer a slightly more polite form. Otherwise, I enjoyed the lovely weather.

It's a great place to sit when the weather is nice. Having a nice beer here is highly recommended on a warm summer day.

Had a training session all day. Super well organized. Friendly staff. Enjoyed some drinks on the terrace afterwards. Well-prepared snacks.

We went for dinner here a while ago with a group of 15 people. The atmosphere was very pleasant, and later in the evening the music got a bit louder, which made it even more fun. Overall, we had a delicious dinner. However, there were a few downsides. Unfortunately, for a few people, the food was cold or a bit dry, especially the dishes meant to be shared. This was possibly due to the crowds. The service regarding drinks also left something to be desired. We regularly had to wait a long time, and orders sometimes arrived incomplete or later than expected. On the positive side, however, this was resolved properly when settling the bill. All in all, we had a pleasant evening, but there is still room for improvement.

Had lunch and ate well; the staff was busy but we received full attention.

Cozy place in a beautiful location; I recently painted this watercolor there.

Had a delicious crispy chicken sandwich. Tasty and fresh, friendly service in a lovely ambiance. Unfortunately, the outdoor terrace was full, but you can also sit comfortably inside. Highly recommended.

We were here on Monday, March 23, 2026, and ordered two toasted sandwiches. If the quality of the sandwiches is representative of the rest of the menu, then I would never eat here. The sandwiches were lukewarm, the bread was only toasted on one side while the other was still white, the cheese was not melted, etc. How difficult is it to make a toasted sandwich? Moreover, it took a long time for the sandwiches to arrive. We were on the verge of leaving. If only we had…

A huge disappointment, although I would like to add that I actually never write reviews. The food was fine, nothing to complain about. However, the staff, terrible! Not once did they ask if everything was to our liking. I had to ask for a drink or food order myself time and time again. They couldn't manage a smile, and I actually wanted to mention this when paying. However, that wasn't possible because they didn't ask if everything was to our liking. They could only read out the amount. Never coming here again. I am so disappointed.

They call it Stadscafé Blij themselves..... I haven't been able to figure out where that name comes from.... It is Market Day in Zwolle today. In between shopping, it is time for a drink. I walked past an inviting terrace. Tables equipped with candles, ashtrays, and the menu displayed invitingly. And to top it all off, the patio heaters are already on. I sit down and enjoy the warmth. I see that there is a sticker on the table to order online. That saves taking orders and, therefore, theoretically, staff costs. Okay... not my preference, but I get it. What I don't understand is that I subsequently have to pay an extra €0.35 for the fact that I take my own order and settle it online in advance. Big mistake. But what is truly appalling is that an extremely grumpy person then walks out and says nothing but: "I see you ordered via Wero? We don't open until 11:00 AM.... nothing gets made until then!" When I then say that they should indicate that before I order and pay, this woman just walks away.... Eventually, at exactly 11:00, we get chilled fresh mint tea and a lukewarm cappuccino. If you don't enjoy working in the hospitality industry.... then quit! But don't take it out on your customers who pay your salary through pricey drinks.... When asked if we also want to order something to eat, I don't have to think long...... Never again for us.

Had a delicious lunch, super friendly staff. Definitely worth repeating.

If you're lucky, you might get a spot. The food took a long time, and dietary requirements weren't met several times.

We weren't thrilled; it all seemed a bit nonchalant. The service was okay, and the food arrived quickly. The curry was watery and undercooked. The chicken satay was tasteless. The fries and nachos were the best.

We had a nice, cozy atmosphere and the prices were reasonable. One glass of wine and a Bacardi and Coke were 15 euros.

The ham sandwich and tuna sandwich were fantastic again! When we visit Zwolle, we usually have lunch here; it's a lovely central location in the city. The terrace is also nicely situated in the middle of everything, and there's plenty of shade when it's hot.