Johannes

6 courses, 6 wines all perfectly made and presented with great skill and craft. No tricks or gimmicks, just perfectly balanced palate pleasing and artistically arranged cuisine.
Set in an understated atmosphere as the food and wine pairing. Unpretentious and casual dining with matching friendly service.
A theme of «balance» which is a difficult feat to achieve or recognize, when it appears to be so easy. All made for an exceptional evening.

Easily one of the top 5 meals I have ever had! Ever bite was a culinary delight of both taste and texture.
We did the wine pairing and asked for our dishes to be without fish/​seafood. I still dream about their potato soup! Each course was better than I could construct — simply amazing. The fact that I couldn’t easily replicate these tasty courses in my own well stocked kitchen made this a 5 star!
I only wished that I Lived closer to have a monthly reservation for every new menu !

Great meal for the adventurous, not for the faint of heart.
I can give you the viewpoint from an adventurous eater, myself, and a non-​adventurous eater, my husband. My husband is a pizza kind of guy. If he could eat pizza for every meal, he would be happy. Therefore, when presented with eel mouse and steak tartare he was not happy. I, mistakenly, thought he could get over his predisposition to disliking different foods. Although he did try everything, he ended up only enjoying the pork belly.
On the other side of the spectrum, I love eating everything. I’ve eaten live octopus, chicken feet, anything and everything that won’t poison me. I really enjoyed this meal. There were two amuse bouche at the beginning which was a nice touch. We went with the 4 dishes, which in my opinion was more than enough. I thought the dishes were well done.
I also liked our server. She ended up being from Los Angeles so we felt comfortable having her serve us our first night in Amsterdam. She was very pleasant and gave us tons of great information on Amsterdam.
The décor of the place is nice. The two people tables are kind of close together, but since there were not that many people there at 7 p.m. we made it through most of the meal without anyone next to us. It got a lot more crowded later on, around 9 p.m.
This is a romantic place that I think is worth it if everyone in your party enjoys good food.

Absolutely delicious food with attention to detail. I could tell the staff work really hard to choreograph the service. They made a fairly large mistake during our service where we missed one of our courses but immediately explained what happened and offered us a wine pairing while we waited etc. Very honest and professional etc. The setting was fairly formal so I felt a bit underdressed but they were very welcoming.

Sweet sweet perfection. This meal was perfect to the letter. I love the surprise menu and all the food was spectacular! I’d come again and again if I could afford it!

Had a wonderful dinner with a colleague here last night! The service was very good and the food delicious. It was not too crowded for a Monday night which was great. I will be back the next time I am in town.

It’s a coincidence that we visited Johannes only one day after Doron made this bad experience. We had booked our table about 2 weeks in advance and were looking forward to it. And we didn’t get disappointed. Re-​visiting Johannes after half a year was exactly the same pleasure like on the first time.
The service is still very professional yet nice. The dishes are still a visual and culinary delight. If you want you can even look up the composition of the current courses on Johannes’ website.
It’s true that it took more time between the order and the first appetizer than when we were here for the first time. But after that the courses were served in enjoyable intervals.
The dessert contained a little surprise: if you were curious enough to turn the plate where the small ice cream was placed on, you found a little crème brûlée in the cup underneath it. Call me simple but I like easter eggs.

I have no idea what happened. Was it just an off night?
This was the worst meal I’ve ever had. The food was supposed to be imaginative and innovative, and it was, but it was also supposed to taste good. Isn’t that the main point of food?
The service was fine, though the meal took several hours (and felt even longer). Each dish both my dining guest and myself kept expecting to get better. Each one was worse than the one prior. The flavor combinations were just, well, not to my (our) taste. And it appeared not to the taste of other guests either. As we sat there between courses, we observed practically every other patron in the establishment pushing their food around their plates and looking at their watches… this was just bad.
I know there are not tons of wonderful restaurants in Amsterdam, but there are some. This is definitely not one of them (at least not from my one experience there). I will not go back.
This is the first restaurant I’ve ever gone to that by the end of the meal, I felt like I had just finished a jail term and was being released. It was actually painful and it just kept on going, and getting worse.
I will never forget how happy I was the second I left Johannes and I took a deep breath of «freedom». (After paying them quite lavishly for this pleasure.)

I enjoyed a wonderfully balanced five course dinner with wine arrangement at Johannes. This deserves at least one Michelin star. Atmosphere is very ok and service is just perfect!