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Con-fusion, Postjesweg 107 1057 DT Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Con-fusion, Postjesweg 107 1057 DT Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Postjesweg 107 1057 DT Amsterdam

020-6161122

Oh you have to be so careful when choosing a name for your restaurant; it can so easily become a hostage to fortune. It was obviously considered quite a witty name for a restaurant/bar serving fusion food, but the joke soon wears thin. We hadn’t booked and they were full, so we agreed to sit and wait for a table. After about 20 minutes one became free, we got the menu and ordered some drinks. About 5 minutes after we’d ordered our food, the waiter came back and said the monkfish was sold out, so L ordered something else. After another 5 minutes the waiter came back and said, no, the monkfish was on again. So we sat and waited.

After about 40 minutes another waiter came and asked us if we’d like another drink. “No thanks, but we’d love some food” we replied. The original waiter came back, apologised, offered us free drinks on the house and went in search of our dinners. Eventually he returned with our food, by this time we had been on the premises for an hour and a half. We hadn’t even been given – like everyone else – a basket of bread to nibble. My salmon on asparagus with lemon sauce was delicious, but stone cold. L’s monkfish withy home made ravioli was lukewarm. The plates had obviously been dumped somewhere and forgotten. We were ravenous and couldn’t bear to part with it, so didn’t complain.

Apart from one other couple, everybody else in the room was smoking, and the door was open to let the smoke out. But it was a cold, wet, night, and I suddenly hated being there. Instead of waiting for a bill, we went to the counter, paid and escaped. We both reeked as if we’d been rolled in a giant ashtray. The food is nice, the staff are pleasant, but it’s an unpleasant experience. The name is perfect DM June 06

By Daisy Middleton at 17/06/2006 - 18:06 | 2006 | Disabled Access | Europe | Netherlands | Other European | Rejected | Review | £££/$$$ | add new comment | 266 reads