Rijsttafel Dèsa

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A spread of small plates around steamed and fried rice, with rendang, beef slow-braised in coconut, at its heart. Amsterdam's Indonesian rice table, for two.

Dèsa

Indonesian · rijsttafel · rendang · De Pijp, Amsterdam

Ceintuurbaan 103H, 1072 EX Amsterdam

An Indonesian kitchen in De Pijp that cooks traditional dishes village-style, with its own peanut sauce on every plate. The rijsttafel, the rice table, is the reason to book.

The proof, in the house's own words

Why the rijsttafel

Strong evidence

Craft
Every dish comes with the house's own peanut sauce and sweet-and-sour salad.
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Tradition
Traditional Indonesian dishes, cooked village-style.
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Local choice
The rice table the house calls famous, and the one Amsterdam books it for.
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We'd add

Our runner-up

Daging rendang

Beef braised in spiced coconut

Daging rendang on its own, the centrepiece without the spread. Ours for a table of one.

Traditional Indonesian

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