Restaurant: The Seafood Bar
Location: Amsterdam
Date: July 4, 2023
Cuisine: Seafood
Rating: Pretty similar to a San Francisco style seafooder
Our final meal of the trip (not including bad plane food).
It’s always hard to find somewhere that will please our entire large group and so we tried pretty hard to get into this small chain Amsterdam seafooder — which would.
The menu.
This lovely Sancerre that birthday girl Emma chose.
Fried calamari rings with mayo — nice.
Bitterballen. The classic Dutch croquette and I was told an excellent one at that.
Sea bass ceviche.
Salmon tartare with avocado.
Oysters of several types.
This epic plat du mer had lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, salmon, crab (two types), crab salad, Dutch shrimp (the tiny ones), lagostinas, clams (2 types), mussels and more!
Cesar salad with salmon.
Cod filet with pumkin and beurre blanc.
Dover sole.
Fish and chips “kibbeling” style (in small peices).
Fish and chips “whole cod” style — like in England.
Extra fries with mayo because it’s Holland.
Chocolate ice cream.
Chocolate bavoroise with chocolate ice cream. A bit dry.
Lemon meringue pie.
Expresso martini.
Expresso.
A fun and tasty end to our epic trip. The Netherlands part of the trip wasn’t food focused — nor actually was any of this trip — but we did have some really nice stuff. This place is fairly similar to Santa Monica’s Watergrill or many California-style seafooders, but it had a Dutch bent and was quite delicious.