Comments on: Restaurant Review – Amigos, Roosendaal

By: Breigh

Breigh — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 07:21:15 +0000

Yeah, I’m tempted to send the link for this review to them and see if it even makes a difference. I mean they still got a 9, so I don’t know if giving up the money they make on bottled water is worth trying to satisfy the small percentage of people who would happily just drink tap water.

By: Breigh

Breigh — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 07:20:07 +0000

Yeah the inside BBQ / gourmet thing can be really fun! We don’t have one but some friends of ours do and we really enjoyed it when we did it with them :) It just makes dinner a bit more fun, doesn’t it?

By: Breigh

Breigh — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 07:18:08 +0000

It is a right pain in the butt, and I wouldn’t mind if the water bottles weren’t so tiny. When he told me I couldn’t have tap water he did give me the option of buying a bigger, more expensive bottle of water which I did buy, but not happily.

By: Michele

Michele — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:11:19 +0000

I hated the water-thing in Europe. Always felt so cheap asking for plain water. In Spain they just pretended they didn’t understand the request.

That is a great photo of the two of you, by the way.

By: Theresa

Theresa — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:36:53 +0000

I was watching one of those (boring) round table discussions on TV here.. I think on NCRV. Anyways, it was about what the Dutch are going to do to contribute to the ease of global warming. The number one thing they said they are going to do (as in are already implementing) is convincing restaurants to stop refusing tap water to people. The bottled water still available to those who want to buy it of course.

During the discussion the question was also raised about the quality of Dutch tap water. Like Penny said, it’s very clean and ranks up there amongst the cleanest in the world.

Thanks for the review.. it sounds great. It’s just around the corner from us (Roosendaal) so we’re definitely going to try it out soon!

By: Gaby

Gaby — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:03:12 +0000

Sounds lovely. And I did see differences like you have from restaurants there and restaurants in Venezuela. In Venezuela our water is bad, though, so you usually get tap water when you sit but you can taste it, so I normally do order a bottle… In NL it never ocurred to me to ask for water, lol. I think Roosendaal is a bit far for me when I’m there, but if I am ever up that way, I will surely think of Amigos! What I did do in NL was wokking, that was good fun and also all you can eat.
The exact same thing you did at Amigos we have done at home with my soon to be in-laws, and that was good fun, as well. We would do it outside on sunny days. :)

By: Breigh

Breigh — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:51:13 +0000

I think they aren’t allowed to sell tap water as expensive water, like pass it off as bottled water. The water here is perfectly clean, it really is just about making money… which I totally understand, but it’s not like I went in there and said oh no thanks I’ll just have some of this garlic bread and a few glasses of tap water please.

By: Breigh

Breigh — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:50:07 +0000

Yeah that’s what ticks me off. If you are spending a fair bit of money in there as it is, why not just appease you and give you the water. People who drink coke will still drink coke, and the wine drinkers will still drink wine. It’s not going to start a whole beverage revolution if someone sees you getting a glass of tap water.

By: Penny

Penny — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:04:30 +0000

I was told they are by law not allowed to serve tap water. I think it’s silly as well. When I had Noah our kraamzorgster told me the tap water in NL was so clean I didn’t have to buy bottled water for his bottle, to just use the tap.
So they should make up their mind. Either it’s good enough for newborns to drink, and we can order if for free. Or it’s contaminated and we can’t.

P.S. I think it’s also awesome you buy one bottle first :)

By: Ash

Ash — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:47 +0000

I’m with you on the water. We went into an Indian restaurant near us where we had quite a nice meal before, and when I asked for a carafe of tap water (we had ordered booze too!) I was told it wasn’t possible. When I asked why they said ‘because the taps are unhygienic and we’re not allowed’ which was the biggest load of nonsense I ever heard.

I called them up on it and asked if the taps were so unhygienic what were they doing for cooking water etc? They were at a loss. Needless to say we’ve not been back!