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De Stuisvogel

Illion
Illion
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De Stuisvogel

  • March 12, 2002
  • Rated 4 of 5 by Illion from Amsterdam, Netherlands
One of my favourite restaurants in Amsterdam is the Struisvogel (the Ostrich). Perhaps because this is the first restaurant where I took my girlfriend for dinner, but more probably because of the refreshingly original menu en the extremely reasonable price.
The small bistro-like restaurant is located in a basement on the corner of the Keizersgracht and the Wolvenstraat. After descending from a small and steep set of steps, you will enter a pleasing, somewhat crammed room. When you haven’t made a reservation you will probably have to wait. In fact, this can be quite agreeable when you sit at the bar, drinking a very special Amsterdam beer from brewery ‘t IJ.
When you are taken to your seat by the friendly staff you will notice the only menu is hanging on the sidewall, written on a blackboard. From all the dishes on this board you compose your own three coarse dinner. There are five options for every coarse, at least one of which is vegetarian. There is one other certainty: you will always find a few dishes containing ostrich meat on the menu, hence the name of the restaurant. I personally recommend the ostrich carpaccio.
Amsterdam has a lot of restaurants in every category you can imagine. Only a few of them are capable of surprising their guests and keep doing so. The Struisvogel is one of them. Due to the smallness of the place, which can make it a bit stuffy in summer, the atmosphere is always good-natured and intimate. The staff is courteous and remains in the background. When you take into account the very reasonable price of € 19, - for a three-course dinner, it will be no mystery why this restaurant deserves the highest recommendation.

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