If you go with your first instinct and stay outside, you'll miss one of Amsterdam’s culinary secrets. Unfortunately the cheap chairs and tacky adverts make Planet Rose seem more like a snack bar than a Jamaican restaurant where the food is exceptional. Once inside it seems more like you’re in the canteen of some obscure football team than in a real restaurant, but if you can ignore appearances, chef Mama-Rose will take you on a culinary journey through our planet’s most relaxed island nation. Each dish on the menu comes with a personal story on its background and all taste delicious, especially the tender goat curry, jerked chicken and ackee and saltfish.