Relatively few people – including centre-centric Amsterdammers – visit Amsterdam North, and until restaurant Hotel de Goudfazant opened deep in an industrial estate there was little reason for them to. In the intervening five years, Amsterdam North has become hip, hosting restaurants, theatre festivals and artists’ ateliers. Effortlessly leading the way among the northern cool kids, Hotel de Goudfazant combines compellingly low-key surroundings with superb food.