Indonesian Ristaffel

Restaurant Jun in the Jordaan area is a great, neighborhood place. We loved our rijstaffel experience there. Friendly staff and in a nice location too.

In my experience the Ristaffel is often characterized by volume rather than quality -- lots of kind of awful cheap dishes mixed in with the winners. As a result we like to select from the menu fewer dishes that we actually like. Most tourist Indonesian places make this cost prohibitive; they really want to shovel out the cabbage and rice and such in their standard rice table and so make a la carte ordering difficult and costly. We liked the classic Kantjil & de Tijger where we had a decent Ristaffel one night and then returned later in the week and could order half a dozen of our favorites at less cost and less volume. We have tried a couple of other places over the years the names of which escape me and always return to this one.