Today’s

A friend had recommended a place somewhere around where Today’s is but I obviously got the wrong restaurant and ended up with a sad culinary experience that will not have me going back.
The service was American good*. The guy who took our orders was very nice and the place itself is cozy, with a big communal table, where my party sat down to eat. The setting is simple and the atmosphere is relaxed, and though they close at 20:00 they did not rush my party out of there when it was time to close but let us take our time to finish our meal.
But the food. Oh, the catastrophe of microwaved food. Everything looked delicious and when the server put the first dish in what looked like a microwave-​oven combo, I prayed that he use the «oven» function. Alas, our chicken in sweet wine sauce would be more aptly called «cardboard chicken in goo» and if you’ve never been a victim in the culinary train wreck that is microwaved pizza, let me just recommend you get dental insurance in case you decide to try it because it’s like biting into sheetrock covered in tomato paste jam.
In any case just about everything we ate was dry and for the price my party paid for it all we could have gotten a few delicious, fresh-​out-​of-​the-​oven pizzas at another place I know nearby.
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*If you’re new to Amsterdam allow me to explain that by local standards good service includes a server who acknowledges you at all before closing time and having only some crumbs stuck to spilled coffee on your table instead of someone else’s previous night’s dinner.