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Restaurant 't Zwaantje
🍽️FoodOpen now · Closes 10:30 PM$$ · Mid-range

Restaurant 't Zwaantje

4.5 ·

Settle into Restaurant 't Zwaantje for a proper taste of old-fashioned Dutch cooking. Spoon into grandma's beef stew in a cosy, gezellig room hung with vintage kitchen pieces.

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Full description

Restaurant 't Zwaantje serves robust Dutch cooking with French touches in a compact room lined with posters and vintage cooking utensils. Reviewers describe a warm, living-room feel and highlight the grandma's beef stew as tender and rich, while pea soup gets a more mixed response.

Staff are repeatedly called charming and accommodating, even to a group of eight arriving without a reservation. Rated 4.5 from nearly 2,700 reviews with mid-range pricing, it opens at 16:30 and is an evening restaurant, well suited to couples after a traditional Amsterdam meal.

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Address

Berenstraat 12, 1016 GH Amsterdam, Netherlands · Amsterdam-Centrum
Website
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Hours

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Booking

Booking recommended

Duration

1h15

Best time

early evening or evening

Intensity

Easy pace

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Good to know

  • Reserve ahead rather than counting on walk-in luck
  • it opens at 16:30, so aim for an early table
  • order the grandma's beef stew, the dish reviewers praise most
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Reviews

Restaurant 't Zwaantje was a wonderful dining experience, highlighted by the Grandma's beef stew, which was incredibly tender and packed with rich, hearty flavor. The Pea Soup was good, but more watered down instead of the thick style. Although we didn’t have a reservation, we were lucky enough to be seated around…

C

CJohnson

2/5

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