5x Christmas dining in Amsterdam with a group
Making a Christmas reservation can sometimes be quite a challenge, especially when you’re with a large group. At these Amsterdam restaurants, you can bring the whole family and extended family, or your group of friends if that’s who you’re spending Christmas with. You can easily make a reservation online via OpenTable.nl.
De Zagerij
This restaurant on the Westerstraat serves classic dishes. From vitello tonnato to Holtkamp shrimp croquettes and salmon tartare with beetroot and horseradish mayonnaise. For €31.25, you can enjoy a three-course menu here with the whole family. The restaurant itself advertises that it is child-friendly, so don’t hesitate to bring your little ones along.
Mama Makan
If there’s one cuisine that’s suited to large groups, it’s Indonesian cuisine. At Mama Makan, you don’t feel like you’re in a small toko, but in a beautiful and spacious restaurant. All the more pleasant during the festive season. Have the table filled with an entire rijsttafel. From gado gado to rendang, Mama Makan has it all. They’re also happy to whip up a botanical cocktail. During Christmas and New Year’s, they also have special offers, so make the most of it!
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Mamouche
Why not get acquainted with a somewhat lesser-known cuisine, now that the whole family is gathered together anyway? Mamouche’s menu features the most delicious Moroccan dishes. From stuffed pastry with chicken, onion, raisins and cinnamon to spicy oven-baked sea bass fillet with couscous, pumpkin and chickpeas. And have you ever eaten hadia? A marzipan fritter with honey and homemade date ice cream. You’ll want some!
Cinema paradiso
A fixture in Amsterdam’s hospitality scene for years. The restaurant on the Westerstraat has been serving the best Italian dishes for as long as anyone can remember. Be sure to have the table filled with antipasti: vitello tonnato, tuna carpaccio, various bruschetta and, last but not least, spicy salami. When it comes to the pasta and meat dishes, it’s every person for themselves. Will you go for the truffle pasta, pasta carbonara, sea bass with vongole, mussels, prawns and olives, or saltimbocca alla romana? Plenty of options, in any case.
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Texas barbecue is best enjoyed together, so you can sample everything on the menu without having to stagger into a taxi home feeling sick because you can’t move another inch. The ribs here are so tender they fall off the bone, and the barbecue sauce is made according to a secret family recipe. Try to pry it out of them, but we haven’t managed it (yet).
For a full selection of Amsterdam restaurants during the festive season, visit OpenTable.nl
