Buurman & Buurman Eetwinkel

Great food, great ambience, fire roasted pizza, super friendly, delicious desserts, ate and drank our hearts out.

Fresh ingredients just thrown on a very very thin pizza crust doesn’t make a good pizza. Also we had to wait 60 minutes!!! For 2 pizzas. The barman wanted to make it up with us by offering a nice limoncello, but they never came either… There’s only about 5 tables inside so one can wonder what this place is like…

I came in with great expectations but was sorely disappointed. First of all, the service is so slow you can measure it in geological eras. Somewhere between the Paleozoic and the Cenozoic eras, our pizzas were served. This was made more of a problem because we were here with my toddler who has a hard time sitting still, so my husband had to spend like 10,000 years in the park across the street with her while civilizations rose and fell, fish learned to walk on land and then to fly, and the dinosaurs became extinct before our pizza arrived. This also resulted in our daughter missing her bedtime.
Secondly, fresh ingredients slapped onto a crust do not an excellent pizza make. One has to have some idea of proportions and flavor blending and balancing to make something special, not just throw some leaves and ham on a circle of dough and call it a pizza. The pizzas we had were just that — stuff thrown on a crust and called a pizza. There was always something falling off whenever we tried to pick up a piece, and the whole pizza eating experience could be summed up as awkward, I suppose. You couldn’t tell if you were supposed to fold it to keep the stuff on top of the crust, or keep it flat so you could still fit in your mouth, but risk all the toppings falling off. My husband resorted to the Dutch solution, which was to eat it with a knife and fork.
Thirdly, I asked if they had a children’s pizza and they said they did. So I ordered one and I got a pizza as huge as ours, and it still had leaves on it and other things a toddler probably wouldn’t eat. It also cost as much as an adult pizza. When I asked about why they called it a children’s pizza when it’s indistinguishable from an adult pizza the waiter told me that their definition of a children’s pizza is one without peppers on it and chewy ham and other things kids can’t chew or might be too spicy. But they didn’t seem to grasp the basic idea of a children’s pizza, which is that it’s supposed to be very limited in flavors and scope, like maybe just cheese and pepperoni, so picky eaters would eat it as well, and it’s supposed to be 1/3−½ the size and price of an adult pizza so a child can actually eat the whole thing. But they really don’t seem to care about the kid demographic here. I think they’re doing the Dutch thing of doing their best effort and calling it good enough.
In conclusion, *if* I were single and *if* I had a lot of time to kill, say, by reading an entire book, or have the longest first date ever, or study for a doctoral degree, and *if* I lived in the neighborhood, then I *might* come here more often. But until a temporal distortion field opens up nearby that allows me to have a pizza here and still do something else with my evening, I’ll be checking out someplace, anyplace else.

Really good pizza and nice beers! Also really friendly staff! I strongly recommend getting a pizza and a beer at the Buurmannen.

Delicious pizza and very nice service. I also liked the decoration of the place. It’s simple but effective!

This kind of place is what travel is all about.
It’s like you are walking into the kitchen of your best friend. As I walked in I asked for his recommendation for a pizza… I’m brought to the kitchen to sample his favorite sausage… makes me feel like I’m at home! After that, he pops the top on a beer while I wait and proceeds to assemble a pizza that is so fresh with every ingredient and attention that it ranks as one of the best you’ve ever had.
Understated, intimate, friendly, and comfortable. This place is now on my list of «must visit» every time I visit Amsterdam.
Go. You WON’T be disappointed.

I probably found the best pizzeria in Amsterdam. Go there and tell me if I’m wrong.
Besides the really nice service, you are sitting in a cozy living room atmosphere like where you see pizzas coming out and everyone enjoying it.
Thin crusty pizza dough with very well balanced flavors and original (non alcoholic) drinks to go with it.
You can also take away if you fancy your living room more.