I first discovered the Kantjil 3 years ago on a ‘boys weekend’ in Amsterdam. I’d asked the girl on reception in our hotel for a recommendation. 7 of us had a great meal and couldn’t stop talking about it when we arrived home. On the 2nd of May 2008, 3 of us lads plus another guy who didn’t come first time around, went to Amsterdam with our wives. The intention was always to go back to the Kantjil and even though we had also looked at other reviews for other places we did get back there on the sunday night. This time, like the last, we chose to have the Rijstaffel and we were not disappointed. each dish was brought to the table with a description of it. Lemon rice, mackerel, prawns, beef, pork, chicken, a selection of various vegatables. That is just a small ‘taster’ of what was put before us.
Don’t you just love it, when the food makes your mouth tingle and everyone of us thought we had a meal to remember.
The service was brilliant and the place itself is extremely clean, well apart form our table. With the dishes being passed backwards and forwards we were bound to spill some
I washed my food down with a couple of glasses of Palm beer, which is a Belgian beer, but other beers and a selection of wines were available. The price, we thought seemed a little bit expensive, certainly compared to 3 years ago, but on this particular weekend everything seemed expensive. Sunday was rememberance day and monday liberation day, so the entire city was packed, so I suppose the prices were increased to ‘make hay’. So how do you get to the Kantjil? The number 2 or 5 tram from central station run past the rear of the place with the stop being quite close. Ask for Spui, pronounced shpow. You also have a great choice of bars around the area for before or after your meal.
I will, when I get round to it post some photos of the trip, so keep an eye on my Qype.