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The restaurant is not as good as I remember it. The service is not bad but they do not have a separate smoking area, so my food\'s smell was masked by the stench of shag tobacco. The food tasted good, but was very mild and sweet and lacked any bite what so ever. I am prepared to pay for quality, but this place is a total rip-off as you are charged far too much for what you get.

I have resigned myself to letting people think that this is what South Africans traditionally eat. But it is an excellent exotic selection for people whose reference point is stamppot, potatoes or similar (though monkeygland steak -beef, not monkey- is sorely missing). The food is better than I recall from the last time that I was here and the service is definitely better. And like a proper South African style restaurant it is now smoke free! Two thumbs up! I find the salads are amongst the best in Amsterdam if you choose to have a salad as a meal. I thought that the springbok boerewors lacked the coriander that makes boerewors the way South Africans know it. The chicken and mushroom pie was just as good as that of some or other tannie who we used to visit in the platteland. The house red is served chilled and the house white is not that great (personal taste). The other wines are really good but quite expensive so a selection of less pricy wines would be appreciated to reduce the portion of the bill going to wine.

People like Petra below should stick to eating bland foods because complaining that an exotic Thai curry has too many ingredients is not something I can seriously believe. The snapper in red curry was excellent. I also find people who claim to get raw food in restaurants but do not complain immediately about it deserve what they get. I ordered the same dish and found it delicious. On the downside, the restaurant was extremely busy that night and unfortunately some people think it imperative to smoke cigars in an enclosed area while other people are eating.