Pont 13

(Atmosphere: ⁴⁄₅)
The coolest thing about this place is that it’s literally a ship. We started off dinner on the gorgeous terrace (deck?) then when it got cold, moved inside to a table placed beside the little round windows. So adorable.
However, the seats both outside and inside were quite uncomfortable. Outside were teetery little barstools and inside metal chairs at a table that was way too wide for comfort, so the other person felt really far away.
(Service: 3.5÷5)
The service was fairly friendly but excruciatingly slow. We were there for hours and we only ordered one starter and two mains! This is why we had to move inside: after an hour and a half we realized that we were not going to get our food before we froze off our seats.
(Food: ⁴⁄₅)
The food was quite ok. Not exceptional, but good. Fairly simple seafood and meat dishes, like any mid-​range Amsterdam restaurant. Nothing too inventive or interesting but the quality was good.
Overall I found it a bit too posh for what it really was. It would be a lot nicer and more fun if they dropped the pretence — and the prices — by about 25%.
Worth a visit if you’re with tourists or someone you want to impress (a client?), but perhaps not a date or a great place to go with friends.

We spent a long weekend in Amsterdam with my family and picked this restaurant based on the unique experience of location and history of the venue. The food and service was excellent. Seasonal ingredients and the range of dishes on the menu, should make it easy to pick something for everyone.
Overall the restaurant totally met my expectations.
Thanks

This restaurant is a typical example of how bad service and worse management can ruin not only one’s evening, but also a restaurant’s review. Pont 13 has everything –in potential– to score 4 stars easily: great location –on a former verry– and okay food. But then the –probably– students (law, medicine, business, NOT hospitallity) serving you… They’re not interested in you as their guest. They just want to make a few euros and hate the fact it means serving you. We finished our starters, but our main courses never came… After an hour (!) I politely inquired if perhaps they had forgotten us. And yes, they admitted, they had, but the kitchen would now cook us our meals anyway, which would take another half hour. Alas we had other arrangements for the rest of our evening. So I truly politely told them –no hard feelings– that we’d rather skip our main courses and have our desserts instead. The student serving us went back to the kitchen and returned to us with this message from the owner of Pont 13:…WE COULD NOT ORDER DESSERTS IF WE WOULD NOT FIRST WAIT FOR AND EAT OUR MAIN COURSES (YES! THE ONES THEY FORGOT TO SERVE US IN THE FIRST PLACE!)…NO KIDDING! Pont 13? NEVER AGAIN.

yes, the location is exceptionally gorgeous, inside an old ferry. also the food is reeeeally great. we’ve had the dinner 3-​course menu for only € 35,-pp which is a great price for the quality of food you get.
Only downside to pont 13 is their unattentative service. they could have made easily three times as much with drinks at our table — if only they’d asked.
we’ve waited at least 30 minutes between courses in which not once we were asked if we wanted something else to drink. after the courses we sat another 20 minutes in front of our empty plates before somebody finally cleared our table. really annoying.
also: check the bill at the end! they’ve charged us for each course instead of just 35 € for the menu! but then they’ve forgot a whole bottle of wine. So we just let it slip and didn’t say anything — as this probably would have taken them another hour to sort out, which is really a pitty to an otherwise great restaurant.