Everything On A Stick

From the Potato Tornado’s (fried potato on a stick) to the chocolate and pop-​rocks dipped strawberries dessert, its a true gem in Amsterdam.
Great if you want to have dinner with a group or a special date without worrying about the price. All-​you-​can-​eat at so sit back and enjoy the tasting!
Staff and the brother-​sister owners are the personifications of this restaurant: edgy and trendy but warm and o-​so-​sweet.

Very slow service, 2 people for the entire restaurant. When we sat down it took 20 min for them to come to our table: the drinks took forever to come as well. The food was ok but not tasty and fresh enough. No, I won’t come back, unfortanatly, because the concept is still orginial and nice.

Good food if you know what to order. Dont get the scallops or fish. Super small portion and not that great. The ribs and rosemary lamb was great and a good portion! And the vegi tempura and sweet potato balls were divine. you cant order anything individually. So its 15 € PP minimum here. we asked to order something seperatly and were told No! Only the 15 € plate or nothing.

Can’t say this place was worth the cost. It was partially my fault because I didn’t understand the concept till after I sat down and ordered a drink. Only then do they tell you and the price is not listed on the menu. You can order 3 skewers per round and one is required to be a side dish (aka not meat or seafood) to fill you up. The side dish portions were larger than the «good» stuff.
I did like my first round: 5 spice beef, gambas with garlic and chili oil, grilled mushrooms. 2^nd round not so good: grilled lamb with sweet ketjap and onions (bland and tough), bacon wrapped scallops in rosemary oil (scallop slivers really and bacon not cooked well), roasted cherry tomatoes (good).
Last but not least Poppin Fruit (aka 2 small strawberries dipped in chocolate topped with pop rocks candy, just odd)
Grand total with cocktail 38 euro… can’t say I’ll be back

For an establishment with such a clear concept (everything except the rice and drinks is literally on a stick) it left me confused. This place was yin & yang, but without the balance.
With the upbeat cheerful male server being the high and the female waitress the definate low. Don’t know what her problem was, but her frequent eye rolling was a serious issue. On the other hand, the guy was very agreeable and regularly checked with our group, requiring about our wishes and treating the b-​day girl to a glass of champagne during dessert.
The fire being the lamb with sweet ketjap & onions, the chicken teriyaki and 5 spice beef. The overly salty bacon wrapped scallops and bone dry cilantro chicken with mango salsa, however, extinguished it all.
Don’t really understand how 1 chicken dish can be succulently (dirty word) good and the other have the texture of shoe soles. Perhaps because they used chicken thighs for the chicken teriyaki and breasts for the cilantro version. But then why not just use thighs for all the chicken dishes?! This is exactly why I’m often hesistant ordering chicken when eating out.
The salmon dishes, jacked potato and gambas with garlic chilli oil were ok, but nothing special. Also the same spicy sweet ketjap sauce was repetitively used on the chicken wings and spare ribs and after already having had the lamb, it became rather monotonous.
While overall quality products were used, nothing tasted really remarkable. When eating out, I would like to say: I can make that or I wish I knew how to make THAT and not leave saying I can do way better than that.
That just leaves me with the name I’m liking about EOAS really.
If it wasn’t for the dry chicken, the burned sweet potato croquettes, soggy greasy tempure veggies (tip: when making tempura, don’t cut the eggplant the size of tree logs!) but most of all the eye rolling waitress, I would have given 3 ***.
Seriously, when you have to beg them not to bring out anymore food half way through dinner in an all you can eat restaurant, something is terribly wrong. So, you can rolls your eyes at that third star missy! And while you’re at it, you can stick…