Jacques Jour

a pop up week-​end restaurant in north amsterdam. i guess one week-​end a month they have a special themed menu. when we were there it was Swedish. i had ordered salmon with a poached egg, i apologize i don’t remember the name but there’s a photo i posted of it. it was very good. nice thicker cuts of raw smoked salmon with yellow beets, arugula, caviar, cream and a poached egg on top. i would give my meal an easy 4 stars. the reason it’s 3 is because of the customer service we received when we arrived. we had a reservation but they couldn’t find it and when we started moving chairs around they were very upset about that. no need to be upset, just politely explain why we couldn’t?
i would be willing to give this place another try and enjoy something off of their regular menu. they give free tap water and bread. the table bread was tasty. maybe they were out of sort but all of our coffee drinks came with no spoon, milk or sugar but they brought it over when we asked for it.
oh and check out the bank vault downstairs when you go to the bathroom. not something you see every day in a restaurant :)

Jacques Jour is a brunch concept that serves their food at Café Modern in North Amsterdam. Since modern opens at 17, if you come earlier, you’ll find Jacques Jour there during the day. The place looks really cool, kinda forties style, with yellow/​green painted walls, school-​like tables and chairs and the kind of tea cups and pots you would find at your grannies house. There are also little vases with flowers on every table; cute! The place is really stylish, I liked it.
Once a month Jacques Jour does a special-​themed day, and today it was Swedish themed. These special days are called Jack Day and if you check their FB page you can see what the upcoming theme will be.
I must say that they went all the way with the theme! The food, drinks, music… everything was Swedish. Very nice. The food was really good and the plates were a pleasure to see, little pieces of art. My only complaint about the food was that I order a dish that also contained potato salad and berries, though I could not find this on my plate. Instead there was quinoa, which is quite different. I liked my food so it was fine, but you should serve what someone orders and not just change it. One of my fellow diners didn’t like quinoa so the dish was quite disappointing for him.
I would have rated Jacques Jour much higher if it wasn’t for the service, which just wasn’t good. Something went wrong with our reservation, so the staff seemed kind of freaked out because we showed up with 12 people, but still, it wasn’t that busy and how hard is it to just keep calm and friendly? Also, there were some small things like; bottles of water on the tables but no glasses, tea arrives without spoons and sugar, coffee arrives without milk, etc. They were quite generous with the bread and water though and after some complaints the owner brought us some pastries on the house which was nice.
I will come back to Jacques Jour because I really liked the food and the café itself. The prices were decent as well, 10 – 13,50 euros for a dish. There is also free parking for your car. Hopefully the service was just a one time thing.