Night Kitchen

Candlelit Mediterranean neo-bistro where the chef writes the menu around your table.

The trick at Night Kitchen is that you mostly don't order. Tell them what you eat and what you don't, and for €58 the kitchen builds a family-style Mediterranean dinner around your table: sourdough with good things to drag through it, steak tartare, fish skewers off the grill, lamb cooked slowly enough to give up all resistance, chocolate mousse to land the plane. The room at the Vondelpark end of Jan Pieter Heijestraat is all candlelight and clinking glasses, their own photos are mostly tattooed forearms toasting over shared plates, which is exactly what a Tuesday here looks like. À la carte exists if you insist, but the surrender menu is the point: it turns a table of four indecisive people into a dinner party with staff. Open every night, which the name rather commits them to.

Do the €58 personalised shared menu and flag the slow-cooked lamb as non-negotiable.

Photo: Night Kitchen Amsterdam

Photo: Night Kitchen Amsterdam