Description
In the heart of Amsterdam, you find TestTafel serves a completely vegetable kitchen with weekly changing menus. The chefs create a new multi -course menu every Wednesday that evolves during the week based on feedback. The dishes combine worldly flavors with seasonal, local ingredients and traditional fermentation techniques. From refined interpretations from snack stories to experimental flavor combinations such as cabbage breeze or strawberry-sambal ice cream. Test table is a foundation that supports the lilac in building community through accessible food. Guests decide for themselves what they pay via a donation system (€ 45- € 85).
Very nice restaurant. 7 course menu, 100% Vegan. With bread meteor as a course and also a leaf of special lettuce with a slice of special mushroom. Surprising flavors. Most within the “taste logic” but 1 course more experimental: mustard ice cream. My fellow diner didn't like it, I loved it. It's really a shame and actually incomprehensible: everything was in English. So you often have to use Google, precisely because they use quite special ingredients. The nice service was willing to explain something, but... In English, we often had to google what something was in Dutch. Moreover, being a bit hard of hearing, I could not understand it well either. Very simple to solve: also put the menu in Dutch. Makes the experience much better. By the way, it still says cheap, but payment starts at 48.50. So not the previously mentioned €35. Of course you can also pay by cash, up to €100. A very nice idea in itself. The ambiance is also special: the cycling/walking tour on the dike, a fringed edge where there is plenty to see, especially if you come from East. And the view over the water. We saw bats flying! Recommended if you want to eat out a bit more expensively. Price/quality ratio is excellent!
So everything Vegan is not 5 options as there are 100 with animal options. Very surprising. And although really small snacks you will still be satisfied, partly because you can get extra bread if desired. That bread is also in a class of its own. Simple but very tasty. Including rosemary oil.
No Dutch card! Everything in English. And I find it bizarre, and a huge negative, that detracts from the experience. Because what is “Dutch grain”. Ever heard of it? I came a long way, Google was working overtime. Maybe this is whining on my part, but I think that in a Dutch restaurant you should be able to read what you are eating in Dutch. Especially with so many unusual ingredients. This was also expressed as feedback and... don't let it stop you, it's a nice place!
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Test table is my new favorite! Delicious food, great service and a beautiful view over the water. We did order an extra basket of bread because the portions are quite small. It also took a long time for the food to arrive, but that made it enjoyable. Our favorite was the fennel dish, I never knew fennel could have so much flavor!
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We had a very nice meal at Testtafel. A very special place in Amsterdam to enjoy a 7-course menu. You pay between €35 and €85 depending on what you can and want to pay for dinner. Test table falls under the popular kitchen De Sering, but this is the fine dining experience. The dishes were culinary and very tasty. The natural wines also tasted very good and the service was very friendly. Highly recommended if you are looking for something different than a regular restaurant.
Beautiful concept made for almost every wallet. Delicious food, friendly service and good wines.
The dishes were small, next time I would ask for more bread to feel more full.
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Meal: 7 gangen verrassingsdiner (altijd vegan) (vegan)
One of my fave restaurants in Amsterdam. They have a 7 course experimental dining menu that changes every week. The dishes are so interesting and unique, with ingredients like barbequed grapes and Earl Grey tea ice cream. They also have a great selection of natural wines and kombucha to accompany everything. Payment is donation based from 35EUR pp and goes towards a soup kitchen that they run in the same location.
The dishes are always creative and delicious, the venue is super relaxed and the staff are really friendly
Nothing! Love this place
Location & information
- Information
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Kitchen(s)
- European
- International
- Sustainable
- Meals Dinner
- Price range 1
- Glutefree Yes
- Takeaway No
- Location
- Address Dijksgracht 6, 1019 BS · Amsterdam · Centrum
- Phone Number (+31) 613396194
- Website https://testtafel.nl/
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Opening hours
- ma Closed
- di Closed
- wo 18:00 to 23:00
- do 18:00 to 23:00
- vrij 18:00 to 23:00
- za 18:00 to 23:00
- zo Closed
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