Frank's Smoke House

If you wanna try REAL GOOD smoked stuffs this is the place. I am more than happy that we have Frank’s smoke house in our neighborhood. Everything they have absolutely amazing. I don’t really like smoked salmon because of the saltiness. But I love smoked salmon from Frank’s. They are real good delicious. I love to make a green pea soup at home with their smoke bacon and smoke pork sausage. It is unbelievably tasty. I often order smoked assortment ( brisket, various salmons, pastrami, halibut, sausages, ribeye…) for Christmas. It is perfect for family gatherings.

I've been coming to this place since I was introduced to smoked chicken and smoked halibut in 1999. I have since impressed colleagues, friends, dates and recently my kids with how delicious fish (and brisket!) can be. Thank you Frank for falling in love with Dutch fish smoking and settling here to share it with us!

Extremely underrated place. We went to the place recommended by lonely planet. They had great smoked salmon and eel, the lady was very helpful and happy. Sandwich had great balance and taste.

Great place to chill. There’s outdoor space with good sun to relax, have beers and little bites in; a deli with smoked goods inside as well as a proper sitting space inside for food. They serve a lovely smoked beer here that pairs well with their smoked platters. The oysters and smoked cheeses are decent and the smoked fishes are lovely. If you’re in the mood for wines, Frank and Monique will gladly help you find something up your alley. On Thursday’s after 5, they have a barbecued ribs special.

Freshest of seafood of all varieties. Walt staff friendly and helpful making good suggestions of foods that complement each other. Great atmosphere with pictures from Alaska of fishing boats, maps, and indigenous peoples and relaxing music.

This place is awesome and a true gem! My first time visiting Amsterdam and so I was looking for something that would boast a local feel and resident atmosphere. Well I found it at Frank’s Smoke House. Walking in the door you’ll notice a small refrigerated displace case to your left where the locals can come in and purchase their meats without paying the markup to have them prepare it for you. Then just to the right is a bar you can pull up to and have a drink with your board of meat. Otherwise around the corner there is seating for about 50 people. The menu starts with what they are known for, the smoked fish and meat boards. They also have a fantastic cheese board that in my opinion compliments the rest. The have a selection of appetizers and sandwiches as well if you’d prefer. For today, I wanted to local. First I had to get one of their house brewed beers, the Smoke House Eagle. It was a really good beer. You could really taste the smoke in it. Great job guys! Ok so I started with the local favorite, Smoked Eel. OMG! I have never experienced eel before but this was absolutely amazing!! If you like smoked fish of any kind, you MUST try the eel! It was so buttery smooth and just melted in my mouth. Served with an accompanying toast that is super thin cut and toasted to perfection! Then for the main course I ordered the salmon board and the cheese board. I can honestly say that I have never had smoked salmon that was this good! Wow it really blew me away! There were 3 or 4 different types and they were all really great. The cheese board was excellent as well. The cheese was freshly cut and served along side some blueberry compote and some thinly sliced green apple. Seriously this place is a MUST DO for anyone local or just visiting! If I ever make it back to Amsterdam, I will visit again.

Had a Very tasty and freshly smoked salmon sandwich with crab cake. Just second to none quality. Great and friendly owner and employees. Highly recommended.

Loved the place ! Great for smoked cuts lovers. Going good as a startup breakfast or evening stakeout. Took a cheese and fish plates for two. Loved also the Mackerel salad, horsedish deep and the carrot cake. Definitely will come back soon… maybe tommorow 😊

My husband loves smoked fish so we decided to come here and get stuff for our "Dutch picnic" lol. We're so glad we came to check it out. Their selection is wide and everything we got was delicious. One of the store associates, I think his name was Mark (originally from NY!) helped us curate our meal and let us sample stuff to make sure we like it. Even the baguette was delicious! Highly recommend if you're in the area.

I went to quickly pick up some salmon for my uncle, but found myself glued to the counter looking at all the deliciousness and dreaming away. I had to have some smoked sausage and am still liking my fingers, even though it's been well over 15 minutes since I finished it Frank's smokehouse is a small traditional smokehouse with small area to sit and have a quick sandwich. They have Wild Alaska salmon, grain fed pork, mackerel, trout, organic chickens and turkeys, wild boar and much more. It may cost a bit more, but you are guaranteed of tasty sustainable products.

I had tweeted during a recent trip to Amsterdam that I was having my mind blown at Frank's Smoke House, and you can expect the types of responses I got. Despite what Amsterdam is known for by many foreign visitors, Frank's Smoke House is NOT a coffeeshop, but specializes in something else that's hard to come by in the rest of Europe: Alaskan salmon. Living in Paris, the firm, orange-tinged flesh of Pacific Northwest sockeye salmon is but a distant dream, a rich memory of a past life on the west coast of the United States. The occasional wild North Atlantic salmon makes its way onto my dinner plate or sushi platter, but more often than not I'm turning my nose up at the farmed stuff. So imagine my absolute pleasure when my wife dug up information on Frank's, and my subsequent fish-gasm, if you will, upon getting there and seeing the hundreds of real Alaskan salmon bellies hanging in the back room. That, ladies and gentlemen, was how my mind was blown. I normally try to eat local, organic, and all that other stuff. But I'll easily sacrifice my foodie principles for one bite of delicious sockeye salmon from halfway across the world. A small Chinook smoked sockeye salmon broodtje (sandwich on a roll) isn't exactly cheap at €7, but it's so worth the price for a subtle wave of salmony flavor you simply don't come across in this part of the globe. I don't even want to calculate what the carbon offset would cost, but it's still worth it. On top of that, the service is friendly and despite having a bit of a cold cafeteria setting there's a somewhat "gezellig" vibe to the joint, with lots of locals stopping in to buy varieties of smoked fish, fish eggs, and other things that would go nicely on a buffet table. The lovely lady behind the counter at the time told us that Frank himself is originally from Maryland -hence the Maryland crab cakes in the deli case. I'll be trying those next time, if I'm not stuffing my gob full of sockeye.

I moved here from Chicago, and came to this place looking for a wide variety of smoked meats that reminded me of home. The only smoked meat I found here was biltong, which is a South African beef jerky that is like 3x thicker than regular beef jerky and isn't made with sugar, only savory herbs. It's delicious, but it's so thick that you may find yourself drooling down your shirt while trying to gnaw off a chunk. I also tried their pastrami sandwich, which was delicious but a little weird. The bread was sort of sad and dry, and they put small pickles inside the sandwich, which is good because the sandwich needed all the moisture it could get. I fortified it with more mustard when I got it back home, but it was still good eating. Everything else in the store when I went in was fish related. Dried fish, fresh fish, smoked fish, fish soup, fish cake, fish paste, caviar, giant crab legs, etc., etc. I wasn't in the mood for fish so I didn't try any of that stuff, but next time I'm in the mood for fishiness I'll be back.

High quality smoked fish winkel in Amsterdam that I was finally able to visit because of their limited hours. Splurge: *The Alaskan Chinook Salmon is a treat at €8,50/100g, so sweet that it's almost like candy. *I thought the smoked Halibut at €7/100g had a delicate taste, but just not worth it. Hidden gems: *Smoked mackerel for €3,60/half fish that blew everything out of the water. Best smoked mackerel in the country. *Smoked shrimp. Seriously, just try them and you'll never go back. Makes me think of Calumet in Chicago.

If you like all things smoked, this is the place for you! Try Frank's smoked shrimps, for example. Once you tried one, you're hooked for life. http://www.amsterdambitestodiefor.com/savoury/smoke-shrimps-chardonnay/

Delicious fresh fish sandwich on a warm roll. Only a few seats in the place makes you feel like the neighborhood smoke shop. Maybe a euro or two overpriced for the size of the sand which.