Comments on: Everything You Wanted To Know About Danku (But Were Afraid To Try)

By: Friday NOM: Broodje Kroket, Danku, Governor’s Island « Found Connections

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:22:54 +0000

[...] Much-maligned Midtown croquette seller Danku set up some stands to represent (it is a Dutch restaurant), and it was at one such a stand I ended up. Picking essentially at random, I ended up with the Broodje Kroket ($4), the beef croquette sandwich pictured at right. It is easily one of the least visually appealing food items I have eaten this year, but tastewise it’s actually a decent sandwich. [...]

By: Cloggie

Cloggie — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:36:05 +0000

I saw this place on Dutch television (RTL4) the other day and Dutch expats who tried their food, were not impressed at all.
It just doesn’t taste the same like home. One of the owners (a daughter of the alleged Dutch fraud Nina Brink) told the reporter that they’d changed the flavour of the krokets to the “American taste”…

They won’t last for long if they keep up this quality.

By: Annelies Spaan

Annelies Spaan — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:07:53 +0000

Why do they not have REAL Dutch krokets. And why, for crying out loud, do they not have REAL Dutch poffertjes.
Come to Holland and try the REAL stuff. You will find the products to be entirely different all together.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:53:26 +0000

I agree with the anonymous poster above about the packaging. Unless you eat at the place and use their recycling containers, everything has to be thrown out.

My kroket special had two individually wrapped krokets and two dipping sauces in a paper bag, and this was put in a larger paper bag with the salad and sauce. Plus two pairs of chopsticks.

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:51:02 +0000

I had two krokets (tomato mozzarella and artichoke) and their Indonesian beef stew yesterday and was pleasantly surprised. And the food is certainly improving, as I’ve noticed on the few occasions I’ve eaten there. Even if you don’t like krokets, you can at least appreciate the green philosophy behind the place, which makes me feel OK about the disposable containers. In any case, comparison to Panda Express is excessively harsh.

By: Always Hungry...

Always Hungry... — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:22:39 +0000

Their mini pancakes suck huge donkey d**k. They were hard and flavorless…luckily they have syrup.

After reading this review, I don’t think I’ll be trying anything else there.

Waited for months only to be disappointed.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:52:52 +0000

I work right down the street from this place and have given it a few tries because I really wanted to like it as I’m insanely bored with Printon 56, H&H, Au Bon Pain, etc. The staff are super enthusiastic and nice, but so much so that they are not efficient. One time I went, I had my food brought to my table by an employee, other times I’ve just kind of hovered near the door waiting for my fried goop tubes to be served.
Everything I’ve had here ranged from bland to gross. The salmon kroket is a crime against humanity! To make it at home, get some Fancy Feast cat food, blend it with grease, and fry it up burnt-brown. I also need to mention that they are really stingy with the dipping sauces and salad dressings. They only fill the little containers to 1/3 full, so there’s basically only enough sauce for half the kroket or salad.
The fried noodles here somehow manage to taste worse than those microwave chow mein brick things you can get at 7-11s for 99 cents. They are mushy and bland.
The froyo is likewise bland and boring. It’s like it can’t decide if it wants to imitate Pinkberry or Tasti D-lite.
The thing that irks me the most about the place though is its ludicrous claims that it’s a green restaurant. The food comes wrapped in TONS of packaging, even if you’re dining in. Each Kroket comes in its own little paper Kroket garage, the the asian dishes come in a cardboard container, around which a brightly colored cardboard “sash” is secured. Eating a meal here produces TONS of packaging that needs to be thrown away. It doesn’t matter if there’s a place to “sort” your garbage. You want to be green? Make less garbage in the first place.

Take note creepy blond Dutch owner guy who sits in the back of the restaurant on his laptop all afternoon staring at guests while they eat: If you want a return on your investment, you’d better revamp your recipes. Stop trying to be everything all at once. You can’t be a bakery/sandwich shop/salad place/asian place/Pinkberry/Starbucks/Dutch fast food joint and serve any one of those things well. Please get better, I want another place to add to my lunch repertoire!!!

By: wayne

wayne — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:29:35 +0000

Milhouse, you’ve shed your Dutch ways and become a true Dane.

By: Howard Beale II

Howard Beale II — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:09:41 +0000

Dude,
I’d rather take a jackboot to the junk then eat at this craptastic farse ever again. Enough with the colorful cardboard containers…put some f/n decent food out ya d-bags!!!I want my ten bucks and 25 minutes refunded.

By: ben

ben — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:59:53 +0000

So Zach’s final take on it is that it sucks but he won’t come out and say it because he still gives them props for the concept………..oookay then. Between chickening out of the Walgreen’s sandwich and now refusing to call a spade a spade at Danku this is turning into a banner week of mediocrity on midtown lunch.