Yoncalla Restaurant

Interesting experience only if you’ve never been to the “original” thing De Kas does the now classic modern Scandinavian “we grow our own produce, here’s 4 textures of the same ingredient” in one dish thing. And yes the ingredients are fresh and some of combinations interesting (they tried to sell pumpkin and shrimp as original but mushroom dishes were interesting and inventive). But you can’t go playing with ingredients and charging these prices if your basics are not right: béarnaise was way too acidic, pork chewy, oysters drowning in sauce so much you can’t taste the oyster etc.

This restaurant is absolutely amazing! The Michelin star is so well deserved. From the ambiance to the food, everything was wonderful! If you’re in Amsterdam, this place is a must do!

Food is good but the overall experience was underwhelming. Service was terrible, far below what you would expect in this kind of restaurant. We even ended up waiting 45min before we could even get started as the restaurant was waiting for more people to come to our table (I checked and did ask for a 2 people reservation in my original request). That was supposed to be my birthday dinner, very disappointing.