Hoopman Irish Pub

Really good fish and chips. Salmon dinner was good. Very enjoyable beer selection and nice rest on sidewalk.

This is a great place to sit outside in the open while having some bar food and a beer. It’s especially good when the sun is out. During the warmer months sitting out here is also pleasant at night. It’s also a great spot from which to people watch. The food is okay and the beer all right. The service was okay. They required us to pay for each round when it was served. Nothing really special but a nice place to hang out.

I love Pub breakfasts. And breakfast generally. This was an enjoyable one.
We enjoyed a late breakfast (12:30pm) here mid-​week, and (first high point), they still served us the breakfast menu. The pub was quiet and the service attentive, plus free WiFi (although, negative, one of those «free» that makes you like the business on Facebook AND post to your wall to get online, which I do not love).
The Irish breakfast consisted of two fried eggs (I ordered mine «soft», so they’d be nice and runny; my partner’s that were regular were relatively well-​done), two sausages 3 pieces of ham/​bacon (nice and not too fatty), a small hash brown and beans that were not as tomatoey and bland as I’ve become accustomed to when places make an «English» (or «Irish») breakfast. (The meal came with a basket of toast that we forgot to decline, all at a slightly expensive 9,20 Euro).
Overall, I was very happy and we’ll likely enjoy breakfast here again.

Restaurant is in a great location right in the middle of everything in Leidseplein. It’s a typical pub that you would see anywhere in the US. Typical bar food and beer selection as well. We came here to grab some food and a few beers before going out for the night. I kept it simple with some wings and fries, both of which were fine but nothing special. They have a nice outside seating area also.
This is the kind of place you come for a few beers and much on some food while you’re drinking.

A beer is a beer everywhere … given the same brand … the difference is the location of the pub and the service you get.
This pub is placed in the most crowded and touristic place in Amsterdam.
They have a very nice terrace, like all the surrounding bars, the beer is good, like all the surrounding bars but the service, at least last night, was BAD. Not bad as in rude, bad as in non existing and faulty. Mistakes form the numbers of beers to take, to the size of the glass to the bill wrongly made. Cherry on top of the cake, the waiter would not recognize the errors he made and came up with an incredible story … according to him, the SMALL glass of beer costs exactly as the MEDIUM !!
Yes, then why even bother selling a small!
Over all, I had a nice relaxed time, and I encourage anyone to stop by if the evening is nice… even if it is chilly and rainy, they have big umbrellas with heaters so there is no weather conditions, except probably for a tornado, which would stop you form getting your drinks outside!