Adresses in Amsterdam

Travel-inspired jewellery and homeware concept store

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

Pioneer Dutch specialty roaster's flagship espresso bar on Kerkstraat

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

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

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

Art-nouveau canal corner where two gracht meet

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

Tess Posthumus's bar in the 1662 Odeon monument

Amsterdam's photography museum in a Keizersgracht canal house

Upmarket food hall inside a restored 1902 tram depot

Decadent waterfront dining in a corrugated-iron IJ hangar

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

Eastern-Mediterranean neo-bistro for shared dining in West

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

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

Organic specialty roaster's flagship cafe in the Nine Streets

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

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

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

The world's largest Van Gogh collection, on Museumplein

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

One Michelin star, a single seasonal menu inspired by Albert Cuypmarkt

Cult Oud-West micro-roaster supplying half the city's good cafes

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

Ferdinand Bol neighbourhood kitchen, contemporary global plates

Grower-Champagne and small-vineyard wine bar on Beukenplein

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