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Where to eat and drink

Eat & drink

Two house rules: book dinner (especially at the weekend) and don't leave eating for late: kitchens here close between 9pm and 10pm.

Start with dessert

Sweets worth queueing for

A tall slice of Dutch apple pie with a mountain of whipped cream, next to a hot chocolate

Winkel 43

Reckoned to be one of the best apple pies in the city, and my favourite. It's right by the Anne Frank house, so you can do one straight after the other.

JordaanOrder it with whipped cream
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Van Stapele Koekmakerij

Said to be the best cookie in the Netherlands, and the shop sells only that one flavour, by the piece or in a box. Go early: there's usually a queue, and when the cookies run out, the shop closes. No tables; it's takeaway.

Go earlyTakeaway only
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De Laatste Kruimel

Very Dutch: quiches, sandwiches and desserts, downtown, near Rokin metro and the Dam. I haven't been yet, but the tuna salad sandwich came highly recommended.

Downtown
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Properly hungry

Restaurants

Inside the Foodhallen: a hall with a glass roof, food stalls and shared tables full of people

Foodhallen

A food hall with all sorts of kitchens and shared tables. This one doesn't need a booking. It's on the corner of Kinkerstraat, a shopping street, and near the Ten Kate market.

No bookingOud-West
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A plate of stamppot: potato mash with endive and a browned meatball on top

De Molenwiek

For the Dutch classic: stamppot, the mash with a meatball. And order the bitterballen to start, trust me.

Traditional food
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Cafe De Klos

For when you're hungry for ribs somewhere very Dutch. Near Leidseplein.

RibsLeidseplein
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Café de Jaren

A restaurant facing the canal, great for a drink and for trying traditional snacks like bitterballen and kaasstengels.

Canal view
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Cami's tip Book restaurants for dinner, especially at the weekend. Turning up without a reservation on a Saturday night is asking to have chips in a cone for dinner.

For a toast

Beer & wine

Most of these bars only serve snacks — have dinner first, toast afterwards.

The packed Waterkant terrace on a sunny day, with a small rental boat going by on the Amstel behind

Waterkant

A bar and restaurant on the waterfront, tucked under a curved multi-storey car park — on paper an odd combination, in practice the best terrace in the city. Our favourite. Perfect at sunset: go early, because it fills up fast. On the menu, warm dishes with an Asian leaning, plus snacks.

House favouriteArrive earlySunset
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A row of draught beer taps with hand-written labels

Craft & Draft

A pub on the Overtoom with a whole wall of taps: over 40 beers on draft from all over, like the ones in the photo. The other favourite around here. It's also the finish line of the Morebeer Tour, just below.

House favourite40+ on draftOvertoom 417
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If you're properly thirsty

The Morebeer Tour

Four bars, 172 taps between them and a t-shirt at the end. It works like this: have at least one beer in each of the four bars, all on the same day, keep your receipts, and finish at Craft & Draft. Hand the receipts in there and the t-shirt is yours.

  1. Arendsnest

    Dutch beer only. It's the place to understand what gets brewed here before heading off around the world.

  2. The Beer Temple

    The American ones, the counterpoint to the bar before it.

  3. Mikkeller at Morebeer

    A good moment to eat something: you can sit down and have dinner here before the last stop.

  4. Craft & Draft

    The finish line, at Overtoom 417: you have to end here. It's where you hand in the receipts and leave with a new t-shirt.

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The De Gooyer windmill next to the Brouwerij 't IJ brewery

Brouwerij 't IJ

A Dutch brewery with an actual windmill out front. Local beer and a relaxed mood.

Has a windmill
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The Hannekes Boom terrace at night, with string lights

Hannekes Boom

A bar facing the canal, with Dutch snacks and an outdoor area that fills up fast on a sunny day.

Waterside
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The facade of a classic brown café in Amsterdam

Eddy Bar

A classic Dutch café in De Pijp, with darts, a pool table and some unusual decor. It's the very picture of a bruin café, the traditional brown bars, like the one in the photo.

De Pijp
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Anna — the church that became a bar

It's in Amstelveen, right next to Amsterdam, and it's beautiful inside. There's another church-bar, Biercafé Olivier, in Utrecht. The food there is good, but Amstelveen wins on looks.

Amstelveen
Anna on the map Olivier on the map

Plan B

For anyone who likes games: board games, pool and darts, with a beer alongside.

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To see the city from above

Drinks with a view

Rooftop

DoubleTree by Hilton

A bar on the top floor of a tall building, with a lovely view over the city. It's pricier, but the drinks are great.

Coffee or a drink

Blue Amsterdam

Worth going up even if only for a coffee: the view is the whole show.

Lounge

W Lounge — Hotel W

A view over the city, DJs and good drinks in the hotel lounge.