Birtat

Busy Halal place. Decent Turkish food. During Ramadan it is empty, but at Iftar time it fills up to max. So it seems the local muslims really like this place

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Nov 26, 2025

4

What would you eat first in Amsterdam 🇳🇱? I have been to Amsterdam 5 or 6 times, I think. And I have a tradition: the first thing I eat is shawarma... 😅 Typical, right? 😇 This is not something I exactly chose. But I have a friend from Amsterdam 🇳🇱 whose family is from Morocco 🇲🇦 and, every time I arrive in Amsterdam, he either cooks shawarma for me or takes me out to have shawarma... 😅 I love shawarma anyway so that's fine for me. 😋 This time, he took us to Birtat restaurant, a 🇹🇷 Turkish restaurant that he apparently knows very well and, most of all, that is open quite late, which was key that night cause our train 🚄 from Paris 🇫🇷 was delayed... a lot! 🤬 We ordered a mix platter that had shawarma, koftes, fries, rice, salad and bread, plus some tapas. Everything was good and there was too much food so we couldn't finish. We paid €50 for 3 (including soft drinks and no desserts), which would be expensive for this kind of food in Barcelona 🇪🇸, but maybe not much so in Amsterdam 🇳🇱... We were served in a timely manner and I can't really complain about the service, but we were lucky we were with a local cause English 🇬🇧 isn't useful there (that's probably the only place in the whole country where nothing is written in English nor anybody talks to you in English... 😅). The place is not cozy at all and that's probably the worst part of this venue. You can't expect anything fancy, but you can have a good meal, late at night (for the Netherlands!), and that's what mattered that night. 🤝 . . . Quality & taste: 9/10 Quantities: 10/10 Atmosphere: 3/10 Originality: 6/10 Ratio price / quality: 7/10 Service: 7/10 How I felt afterwards: 8/10