Dinner and Rijsttafel

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Here is my Amsterdam trip report from last year.See the restaurant suggestions:

https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/trip-reports/amsterdam-trip-report-ten-days-in-april-2022

We had a wonderful experience with our rijsttafel. The waiter will tell you how spicy it is and our waiter organized the plates from mild to spicy. BE sure to get water and/or beer to go with it. The food was more than enough.

@derek ... we're going this year same time as you did last year (mid April) ... didn't see mention in your trip report about the weather, how was it? ... wet? cold? windy? ... I realize one can't predict weather that far out and I've seen the historical averages, just wanted to get someone's actual experience so we can take under advisement ... I just want a nice sunny warm day when we go to Keukenhof ... thanks.

WE did rijssttafel years ago at Kantjil et Tijgre (sp?) and one thing that stood out (and was true at another restaurant years later) is that when you have so many dishes, there are a lot of cheap cabbagy dishes -- quantity over quality. On a later visit we ordered the half dozen things we really liked the first time and that was much better. Unfortunately many restaurants that specialize in. rijsstafel make the pricing structure such that a la carte is much more expensive. These places make their money on huge quantities of cheap bulky food. I don't have a big appetite so I really would like to have less but more exquisite food.

We have friends that want to do a rice table this spring so are also interested in recommendations for a really good one.

To answer your weather question. We had both sunshine and rainy days. Luckily the day we went to Keukenhof was sunshine, but we had one day of pouring rain. So pack for both, wear layers. Even in the sunshine, It was cool weather in April, not hot at all.

to @janettravels44:

for our rijsttafel, We ate at Long Pura. (link) It had good TripAdvisor reviews, that's why we picked it. It was very good, reasonably priced and for us, it was in a good location in the Jordaan neighborhood near our accommodations. Reservations required.

I read a bunch of reviews and booked Sampurna in May with friends. Anyone have experiences with that. It was reasonably convenient to our hotel. Our friends have never done a rice table and this one looked good.

I toured websites and found one for Ron Gastropub for rijstafel. Does anybody have and insight into that one.
Also, is rijstafel better for lunch or dinner?

Dinner, lots of food.