Hasekura Amsterdam

This is a nice place!
I have been here twice; the first time with a group of friends — and we had a «all you can eat» for 2,5 hours.
i like gyoza’s. A lot. so i had a lot of those and also some sushi which is cut fresh and the fishy melts in your mouth. delicious.
The second time there was a new owner so they scrapped the all you can eat part and now they have menu’s.
So that means that there is always something that i don’t like.
But we had to grill it ourselfs which was challenging because i tend to overcook when i have to do it myself in a restaurant. (plate is built in the table)
BUT IT WAS DELICIOUS as well.
People are friendly, every two seconds asking if you want something new to drink ;)
Anyway.
go, eat. there.

All you can eat sushi places you can find on almost every corner nowadays, but to be honest this one is not half that bad.
They offer a combination of all you can eat and à la carte.
I have been to this place about three or four times and not been disappointed. I think the price verses quality is just fine. For instance I like it better than an all you can eat sushi place at Spui.
The last time I had diner here one of the group wasn’t hungry and decided to simply choose one or two items from the à la carte menu. During the course of the diner he wanted more. The restaurant doesn’t allow people to share their ‘all you can eat’ with someone else, for obvious reasons.
It turned out to be no problem whatsoever to have our friend added to the ‘all you can eat’ menu, mentioning in advance that they would still charge the items he had chosen from the à la carte menu.
We really liked this flexibility.
For me one of the most important things about sushi is fresh and crispy nori. However this is often a problem in these types of restaurants (and believe me even in some restaurants in Japan!) as they serve an enormous amount of sushi and most of it is prepared earlier so the nori looses its crispiness.
The handrolls however are made on the spot and the nori is nice and crispy! So if you like crispy nori, handrolls are my recommendation.

Selten so schlecht gegessen gleichzeitig war der Service unschlagbar freundlich. Das hat es aber nicht rausgerissen.
Die Sushi obwohl auf Bestellung gemacht waren geschmacklich nichtssagend und von der Qualität eher unterste Schublade. Das würde ich beim Kauf einer Sushi Box im Supermarkt gerade so akzeptieren.
Da ist selbst das all-​you-​can eat Angebot für 22EUR kein Grund hinzugehen. Wobei die Prozedur sehr mühsam ist: man muss ankreuzen was und wieviel jeder möchte insgesamt bis zu 5 Durchgänge. Was nicht gegessen wird, wird berechnet; das fanden wir gut.
Grüner Tee wird wie folgt serviert: Ein Becher heißes Wasser und einen Teebeutel zum Selbermachen :-)) Auch das fand’ ich nicht prickelnd.
Wir waren zu fünft und kommen sicher nicht wieder.