Lokale in Amsterdam

Travel-inspired jewellery and homeware concept store

Plant-filled all-day café-tropique in the Indische Buurt

Literary all-day café and cocktail bar facing Oosterpark

South-East Asian sharing plates in the Ten Kate market

On-site craft brewery and tap kitchen in the gasworks

1786 tasting-room brown café on the Egelantiersgracht

Bohemian circular-economy café on a former shipyard

Quality neighbourhood pub-kitchen on Spaarndammerstraat

Organic-minded brown café opposite Artis

The city's benchmark biefstuk, served in its signature jus since 1977

1642 brown café on the Brouwersgracht corner

French neighbourhood lunch-and-wine canteen at Westergas

A 1920s art-deco cinema reborn as an all-day café

1702 grand café with a vast Amstel-side terrace

Sculptural film museum and cinematheque on the IJ

Immersive digital-art hall inside the Westergas Zuiveringshal

Nine-screen arthouse cinema with a UNESCO-listed art-deco hall

Amsterdam's photography museum in a Keizersgracht canal house

Upmarket food hall inside a restored 1902 tram depot

Arthouse cinema with a sourdough-pizza cafe in a former pathology lab

Charcoal-grill Turkish kitchen on the De Pijp border

Playful Noord craft brewery and taproom

Antakya-rooted Turkish kitchen on Hugo de Grootplein

Shipping-container culture hub on the IJ at NDSM

Part cafe, part homeware store on a pretty Nine Streets lane

Half-century patisserie, chocolaterie and tearoom on Huidenstraat

De Pijp's refined-but-unpretentious French-leaning neighbourhood brasserie

Organic specialty roaster's flagship cafe in the Nine Streets

Amsterdam's first Syrian kitchen, mezze and home-style stews

No-fuss fresh pasta from time-tested Italian recipes

Amsterdam's modern and contemporary art museum, the 'bathtub' on Museumplein

The world's largest Van Gogh collection, on Museumplein

Charcuterie-and-natural-wine café in the Zeeheldenbuurt

1724 jenever distillery and tasting house

Australian-style brunch and serious flat whites on Atjehstraat

The looser small-plates and wine sibling across Javaplein

The original Javastraat brasserie, brunch to apéro

Greek-leaning restobar with a tight, smart wine list

The Amsterdam School cathedral of social housing

Authentic Iraqi kebab and mezze on Javastraat

Ferdinand Bol neighbourhood kitchen, contemporary global plates

Nameless all-day cafe-bar with noodle soup and coffee