The food here is excellent. Perfectly flavored and nicely balanced. Authentic cuisine. As others have said, the hummus is amazing. The service is good and the ambiance is pleasant. Highly recommend. The best salad I've had in a long while!Saef was a great server!!!!! We will be back tomorrow:-) read more

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While visiting Amsterdam, I stumble upon this place. Being Persian and having Persian foods many times and trying Mediterranean all over the Southern CA, I became curious to try this place since I have never had Syrian food and the place had a nice ambiance. The ambiance and the view is very nice and the sitting area is very warm and welcoming. The food is not that impressive, I ordered two dishes. A) The Rice dish: I enjoyed the rice dish as it had different spice than Persian rice or Indian rice. B) The combination Kabob platter: The ground beef and chicken were both dry but the taste were good and the beef fillet pieces were better than the chicken fillet and the ground beef. I was not too crazy about the Kabob platters. It was a unique experience because I never had Syrian food and I will probably try it once again. read more

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Have never tried Syrian Cuisine before. It wasn't that far from the RLD where we were at that time, saw the great reviews and the rest is history. Tried several dishes, sorry but I forget their names but I did take pictures lol. All of there were delicious!!! Very tasty, spiced just perfectly. Service was very friendly and courteous. Although service was a tad slow, the food and friendly staff more than made up for it. read more

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From the moment we walked up to the restaurant, we felt extremely welcomed--not only by the people, but by the intoxicating aromas wafting through the door. The servers are friendly, and although it may take a while to get your order in, the food comes out quickly and is fresh and delicious. read more

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First I have to admit that this was my first visit at a Syrian restaurant due to allergies. The waiter asked the chef for help. After instantly knowing what the issue was, I got advice what to eat and where to stay away from. Everything was fantastic! The rice had a nice little twist in the spices, meat was perfectly grilled. Have to highly recommend this lovely place near the central station. Please also have a look inside as just from the outside judgement, you will miss out the wonderful place inside. read more

Sham - Wonderful dinner with superb taste - Syrian Near Me - Amsterdam, New Hampshire

You must try this place, the Waitors were friendly and service minded and asked us whether we liked their food, we did...we ordered their two course menu, with 6 different starters and 6 mixed kebabs (meal for 2 persons). The starters was finger licking good and we ate all the plates which was a pity because we could not finish the minced beef kebab, chicken kebab and their lamb kebab. Their meals was perfectly grilled and as I said it was a pity that we ate us full in the starters because we couldn't finish the main course. The Waitors thought we didn't like the food so they asked us if we wanted something else, and they insisted to stay further and have a cup of tea and baklava when we said that everything was more than well done. I've been different places in world but I've never expected a service like that taking the price in consideration (a bit pricy, however not expensive). I am pretty much in love in this place and I am sure I will be here again next time I visit Amsterdam. PS. The best place to sit is near the window where you have a romantic view outside to (a river, don't ask about the name, dunno Amsterdam has after all a lot of rivers). read more

When we arrived, everything seemed nice. The staff let us decorate the room to honor our birthday girl, and seemed happy to receive some friends from the Middle East who were able to communicate in Arabic with them. One of my friends ordered a glass of wine, and few minutes later, she was completely gone. She had no idea what was going on, and it was definitely not because of the alcohol. Was there something in the drink or is your alcohol stronger than it looks? It really made me wonder, because when we asked for a cup of water for her, the manager first refused and wanted to bring her more wine instead, and then agreed but took a white-colorer glass of water. When another friend took the glass away, the manager got upset saying "it was for my friend" -the one who was unconscious. To the manager: you were not only inappropriate but you were completely disgusting. While you smiled at us, you harassed my friend, without even trying to control yourself in front of 13 clients who were witnessing the scenes. Cleaning the stains on her cheek with your finger (full of saliva) is not okay. Sending text messages asking her if she wants to kiss you, and then have sex with you, after dinner is not okay. Grabbing her by the hips is not okay. Blocking her on the wall to ask her, less than 10 centimetres away from her face, to keep the sound down, is not okay. You behaviour was not okay, and since you are the manager, I really hope this message will bring the awareness to whoever has a power over you. As of the food, it was good, as we expected it to be. However, the "really good deal" that we were offered, 21€ per person for "starters and meal" was not what we expected. Only one plate of each was served, and we could have ordered the same for only 15€ if we had ordered it for 3 people. Similarly, some plates such as tabouleh weren't there. Honestly, your deal seemed really nice until we noticed the real prices and until we paid without you checking how much we actually owed. Yes, we had to calculate it ourselves and noticed you charged us 20€ more than we had to. When asked for these 20€ back, you only gave us 14€ because you decided to tip yourself. We appreciate the detail of offering us a cake, and honestly you could have offered us a nice service. However, harassing my friend made me wonder of the real intentions behind all these small-talks. We will never come back again, and believe me when I say I will make my best to make sure this doesn't happen again. read more

Stumbled upon this place while walking around. The food was excellent; never had such good middle eastern food before. Lots of vegetarian choices. Great interior de or and view of canal. Pie table attendant Adnan was super nice and helpful. Must try in Amsterdam read more

The ambience was great overlooking the canal and that was the best thing about the restaurant. At 3 pm there was nobody at the restaurant which should have been a good indicator of food. The white wine we ordered in a craft was diluted. The appetizer, goat cheese and parsley in pastry came out in seconds soggy, obviously from microwave. The bread was in plastic cover, needless to say any further. One of the main course chicken shish taouk was ok and the other Fatteh which was unremarkable. Very surprised with the 5 stars by all other yelpers?! read more

This place was my favorite restaurant during my 3 days in Amsterdam. The food is absolutely delicious, service is really great, and this restaurant is very gluten-free friendly! Lots of GF options, and they also know how to modify any dish to accommodate your allergy without you having to explain what ingredients have gluten (unlike many restaurants here), and they have decent GF bread available. It has a great view near the window, and the restaurant is very spacious (which is rare to find in Amsterdam) and comfortable. The next time I visit Amsterdam, I will for sure come back to this restaurant! read more

Best food in Amsterdam. Visited the city for 5 days and came here 3 times. Fresh meats and tasty mezzas. We ordered the hummus with meat, muhammara and baba ganouj for starters and mix grills as a main. Don't miss their tea too! read more

A hidden Syrian restaurant where everything is freshly made. No need for salt or pepper! The natural herbs give enough flavour to your dish. Ask for the special dish where you can taste it all. Also ask the owner where the name Sham came from. You'll hear some nice history! Enjoy your dinner! read more

Delicious! We tried new things and loved them! We took the staff's suggestions, which was very helpful, we hadn't tried Syrian food before. We tried the appetizer sampler and a chicken dish served family style. Recommend! read more

I ate a late lunch here on a weekday. The seats that are towards the back have a nice view out of a window into the canal. I ordered the lamb kebabs and they were really good. They serve these on huge skewers that are nearly 20 inches long and almost resemble a sword. The meat was flavorful and not dried out. I also enjoyed the pita/flatbread that it was served with, which has a reddish sauce spread on it that was tasty. Overall, a good resturaunt and reasonably priced food. read more

I think I ate here at least twice a week for two weeks. It made a perfect lunch after spending the day on a bicycle.

If I could give this restaurant ZERO stars I would. I can't review the food because we didn't stay long enough to try it so I'm basing this review on service (or lack there of) and their obvious discrimination. My husband is Middle Eastern so I'm familiar with and love Middle Eastern food but have never tried Syrian. While visiting Amsterdam with my son we walked past Sham and decided we wanted to try it. We walked in and were told that the two empty tables needed to be cleaned and would be available in 5 minutes. Fair enough. We went back up front to sit down and while we were waiting a group of people who were obviously friends of the employees and/or owners came in and were seated at the two tables we were told would be available. We were completely ignored while we continued to wait. When it became clear that they were in no hurry to seat us or even explain or apologize for the additional wait we left. If you're not Middle Eastern make sure to take a friend or family member who is, or do what we did and go across the street to ANEKA RASA for fantastic service and excellent Indonesian food instead. read more

Absolutely amazing!! Best meal I've had in Europe for the past 3 months! Real Syrian cuisine and friendly service.