Delirium Café

Nach Aushang werden hier 720 verschiedene Biere angeboten, davon 1 alkoholfreies (0,4%) Hamburger und Crokettes sind ok, Atmosphäre auch. Die Bierauswahl ist natürlich super.

If lots and lots of beers on tap is what you’re looking for this is the place. It’s an extension of the Delirium Bar in Brussels. The staff is very well informed on the beers enough to be able to recommend one or more to you since there’s so many to choose from. As you may have guessed their beer menu is a large binder listing all their beers. It’s rather daunting if you don’t know your beers. However, if you’re an aficionado on beers this is your place. And as I mentioned previously you can always ask the server or bartender what they’d recommend.
They have a nice selection of food if you’re in the mood for snacks, dinner or a burger. They even have a nice steak you can order. They also have a couple of desserts but I didn’t see any apple pie.
The bar is relatively new and the location is interesting in that it’s on the waterfront under the highway bridge. If you don’t know where it is it’s easy to get lost. However, if you walk up the highway bridge you’ll see a sign by some stairs leading down to the café. It looks to be a great location especially during warmer weather. It’s spacious inside and there is plenty of outside seating.

Beer was great, one of the largest selections in Amsterdam but the food was terrible. Waited 30 minutes for a burger which came out dry and over cooked, bad even for Amsterdam standards. The snacks are the typical borrel bites you’d expect.

I am a huge fan of Delirium in Brussels so I was delighted when one opened in Amsterdam. First off this location, while close to Centraal Station, is awkward to get to and hidden under the bridge. There is ample seating inside and out. The terrace has a great view of the Ij but it still feels like the atmosphere is lacking.
The beers are great like you would expect from Delirium. There is a wide variety in pretty much any style you can name. Food is decent pub food: bitterballen, krokkets, bread and tapenade etc.
Having been here twice (shortly after it opened then again during SAIL) I have noticed an improvement in the service. On my first visit the service was so slow, it was practically non-​existent. They weren’t particularly busy and seemed to have a decent number of staff so the slowness was bewildering. We had a large group and they came by the table only a few times (mostly to deliver food). The rest of the time we had to order at the bar if we wanted drinks. On my second visit the servers came by regularly despite the crowds. A marked improvement over the first visit.
Overall, I do like this place but I prefer the Brussels location.

This little place was convenient to the hotel Movenpick and the waterfront. If you can’t find a beer here, it doesn’t exist. They have a colossal menu. From the tap, the Scheider Weiss and delirium red were our choices. Both were fantastic.
We started with the cheese and sausage appetizer that was wonderful. In addition, the chef came around a few times with a delightful smoked sausage and mustard to taste.
We also tried the hamburger. This was not what we were expecting or use to. It was more meatloaf/​hamburger helper than just an angus beef patty. It was dry and not good. But we would go back for more beer, sausage and cheese.

Good rough little pub in an alley off the tourist dining street (don’t eat there). Check out Jennekin Pis at the back of the alley on the right. A few outdoor tables host the smokers, or sit inside — plenty of room on several floors.
Lots of beers on tap but the menu is minimally informative; ask bartender for recommendations. I love Trappiste ales and was disappointed with the beers — styles were more like what we can get in the U.S., not uniquely Belgian. The cherry brews are sickly sweet like soda — not recommended. All in all, decent little stop for a brew but not the religious experience that I expected.

The key here is to come in a chatty interesting group, because you will have to wait, a lot, to get any kind of service. Or you could do what I saw some (assumedly) regulars do — order 20 glasses of beer so that you don’t need to order again!
There were a lot of good times had, lots of Dutch snacks and mixed nuts (oh I love those so much!), and of course, diverse beers. To top it, they seemed to have a live band playing some groovy tunes right next to us. All in all, an experience not to be missed. Just come prepared with low expectations for service. The best thing is to just run to the bar and grab hold of a server, because once you do, your order will be brought out fairly quickly.
Seating is on the comfortable side; the views are terrific when the weather outside is nice, and there are plenty of dinner options, inside and out, when those beers get to you. Oh about the beers — there’s a HUGE selection on the menu. They also have a special deal for 5 beers and associated snacks for a measly price. Can’t go wrong with dark beer and chocolate!
Prices were decent. Definitely something to be revisited.

Terrible.
I used to love the original Delirium pub in Brussels, back when it was all about the beer, but something changed in the last few years. That pub took over the entire block expanding to be a monstrous chaotic hang out for people who don’t really care about the beer at all and just want to get wasted. Unfortunately the good folks at Delirium have exported their new ideals north.
The bar is in a really cool spot and the space itself is great, but this is not all about the beer at all. As others have mentioned they don’t have a lot of beers on the menu. The beers they do have are pretty subpar or just kind of boring for the area. The good local favorites are very overpriced. Very overpriced. I saw a lot of Dutch microbrews priced at over 7 euros. Keep in mind that these are brewed in Amsterdam and available anywhere in the city for 4 euros or less.
The staff does not know beer and does not know customer service at all. There were plenty of staff on and walking around, but we were constantly waiting, constantly empty looking for someone to take our order. It was not busy. If you did happen to find a server good luck getting them to answer any questions with any sort of knowledge whatsoever… and then after you do decide on something, they probably don’t actually have it.
Their menu is also a mess. I saw plenty of beers that were miscategorized. To whomever put together the menu– If you see a beer that is 16% its probably not an IPA.
Bonus– The «clean» glasses are all sticky with whatever beer was served in them before you got yours poured into it.
Do yourself a favor and stop trying to find this place (its not easy). Don’t fall for the gimmick that is Delirium Amsterdam. Instead go back to the golden triangle of real beer near Dam square.
Beer Temple, Golum and In de Wildemann are all within walking distance of each other, have better beer, more selection of actual beers that you can order, clean glasses and knowledgable staff to help you.
Rant over.

So I was excited to try out the delirium café for a while now. Since I moved really close and decided tonight was the night. I read the reviews before going there. A lot of poor reviews were from a few months ago when they were just opening. From what I read we certainly had the opposite experience. The service was really wonderful and helpful. One of servers in particular was always smiling and helped us with suggestions. It seems they must have ironed out the initial kinks of opening a new bar.
As for the food, we tried the goat cheese croquettes with honey dip and they were great.
The beer, well you know from other reviews. Around 20 on tap and possibly 500 in bottles. Either way a great selection.
I think the bar has finally come into its own and there was a good group of people around to prove it.

The location is amazing but hard to find. It’s under the bridge across from the Bimhuis. Near the water. With a lovely terrace. The indoors is very cozy. I can’t comment on the table service since we all ordered beers by the bars. The guys on the bar were more than helpful recommending beers (and ciders, YES!!! they have a wide range of ciders! Finally!!!).
I had a toffee apple cider and my friend a chocolate beer for the fun of it!
I definitely recommend this place :)

I went there a week ago, the place is really nice, big and cosy, the waiter was really helpful, when we asked for recommendations of beers he give us good tips, the service take some time but was good at the end, you should give it a try. They have a big beer menu to experiment.

Very disappointed but the place has a lot of potential.
When we got there it took us no less than 15 minutes to have a waiter come over and take our order. The place was not even crowded but they just kept passing up all of the tables running back and forth.
Finally when our order was taken, it ended up that a lot of beers were not available. Sure there are 500 beers on the menu but that does not mean that actually have 500 beers. More times than not we were told that the beer we wanted was not available.
We were there for a total for 3 hours hoping to try a bunch of beers but in the end we only got to try 3 beers (some people in the group less). It was a chore to flag down the waiter each time and even after ordering and him being gone for 5 – 10 minutes he would come back telling us that the beers we wanted were not there. Then we would repeat and repeat the same process until a beer was finally available.
When I went to pay at the end of the night (I walked to the bar because I though this would be faster) even the people at the bar were visibly upset, they also were being ignored by the staff when they tried to order drinks. Again, the place was not crowded at all.
I’m thinking that the place simply was not ready to open, they are a new business in Amsterdam and I think (and I hope) that they just opened too soon.
Here is why it has potential. The place was really cool inside, nicely decorated and quite large. There was a ton a great outside seating right on the river, and the snacks that we ordered were also pretty good and came in a reasonable amount of time. Try the goat cheese croquets! Also, if all the beers do become available, it would be fun to try a bunch of them.
I really was not expecting to give this place such a low rating, but what other choice do I have? I hope to go back sometime in a few weeks/​months and be able to change this review after the place has matured a bit. :-(