Lugares in Amsterdam

One weekly set menu in a former blacksmith's forge

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

Literary all-day café and cocktail bar facing Oosterpark

Natural-wine corner bar with seasonal small plates on Ten Kate

Fine-dining Indonesian rijsttafel with West-Javanese accents

South-East Asian sharing plates in the Ten Kate market

A modern-classic Museumkwartier institution since 1980

On-site craft brewery and tap kitchen in the gasworks

Daily Zeeland oysters and bubbles in a cosy industrial corner of De Pijp

Piedmontese fine dining and serious Italian wine on Reestraat

1786 tasting-room brown café on the Egelantiersgracht

Bohemian circular-economy café on a former shipyard

Quality neighbourhood pub-kitchen on Spaarndammerstraat

NYC-styled French brasserie on the Leidsegracht corner

Organic-minded brown café opposite Artis

Unpretentious canalside brown cafe locals never abandon

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

Seasonal tasting menus inside a former bank vault in Noord

1642 brown café on the Brouwersgracht corner

The brown café behind the Concertgebouw, since 1901

Fruits de mer on the northern bank of the IJ

French neighbourhood lunch-and-wine canteen at Westergas

Two Michelin stars, 23rd-floor French precision at Hotel Okura

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

1702 grand café with a vast Amstel-side terrace

Amsterdam's original hidden speakeasy

Immersive digital-art hall inside the Westergas Zuiveringshal

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

Tess Posthumus's bar in the 1662 Odeon monument

Upmarket food hall inside a restored 1902 tram depot

Natural-wine room near Sarphatipark, low-intervention bottles and small plates

The original Noord industrial-hall restaurant, since 2006

Modern Dutch all-day dining at the Pulitzer in Nine Streets

Charcoal-grill Turkish kitchen on the De Pijp border

Peruvian ceviche and pisco bar in Amsterdam-Oost

Eastern-Mediterranean neo-bistro for shared dining in West

Playful Noord craft brewery and taproom

Antakya-rooted Turkish kitchen on Hugo de Grootplein

All-day charcoal kitchen and night-time culture hub at Westergas

Wine Bar of the Year on a quiet De Pijp side street

Shipping-container culture hub on the IJ at NDSM

25 connected Golden Age canal houses with garden, on Prinsengracht and Keizersgracht

Cocktail history in a 17th-century canal house

Amsterdam's reference rijsttafel, reopened after a 2026 refit

Modern tasting-menu cooking on the Singel canal

Flemish-French rotisserie in a former domestic-science school

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

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

Music-themed design hotel in the A'DAM Tower over the IJ

No-fuss fresh pasta from time-tested Italian recipes

Curio-filled cocktail den in a centuries-old alley

41-room design hotel behind a Keizersgracht gate

Iconic crushed-ice seafood counter by the Concertgebouw

Neo-bistro in Oost with a 3,000-bottle wine room

Two-Michelin-star dining in an 18th-century canal-house bakery

Modern Dutch, seasonal and regional, on Javaplein

The Noordermarkt corner café known for its apple pie

Charcuterie-and-natural-wine café in the Zeeheldenbuurt

1724 jenever distillery and tasting house

Day cafe, night natural-wine restaurant on Camperstraat

Piero Lissoni glass-roofed atrium inside a 19th-century bank, steps from Museumplein

Greenhouse dining in a working nursery, garden-to-plate, set daily by the harvest

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

Mussels, oysters and creative G&Ts in the gasworks

The Amsterdam School cathedral of social housing

Authentic Iraqi kebab and mezze on Javastraat

Asian fine dining in the Conservatorium's former drum classroom

Five 17th-century canal houses turned design hotel beside Nine Streets

Grower-Champagne and small-vineyard wine bar on Beukenplein