Amsterdam Restaurant Reviews

Alfie's Pies

cecilylayzell@yahoo.com (Cecily Layzell) — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:49:52 GMT

Alfie’s, the first Australian pie shop in Amsterdam, serves top tucker from down under. Located on Ceintuurbaan, it offers a small selection of pies, along with organic coffee, fresh orange juice, Ozzie beer and Spanish wine.

Cheap Amsterdam: Alfie’s pies

cecilylayzell@yahoo.com (Cecily Layzell) — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:46:12 GMT

Alfie’s on Ceintuurbaan is the first Australian pie shop in Amsterdam. The takeaway joint sells a small selection of freshly baked pies, for under €5, with fillings such as chicken with asparagus, salmon with spinach and feta cheese, and a meat-free pie of Thai-style veggies.

Eetcafé Van Beeren

cecilylayzell@yahoo.com (Cecily Layzell) — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 16:56:24 GMT

Eetcafé Van Beeren epitomises Amsterdam’s low-key eetcafé culture for me. A cosy, brown-panelled bar on a quiet street behind Nieuwmarkt stocking the usual selection of beer and wine, it also doubles as a restaurant, serving food that's a cut above most eetcafés.

Restaurant Week: catch it while you can

cecilylayzell@yahoo.com (Cecily Layzell) — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:55:04 GMT

Restaurant Week has released additional seats for its seven days of cut-price cuisine. Tables at the best Amsterdam restaurants, such as Michelin-starred Ron Blaauw and Vermeer, were snapped up long ago. But if you’re happy to trawl the Restaurant Week site and are flexible about when you can eat out, there are still gastro goodies to be found.

Greenwoods

cecilylayzell@yahoo.com (Cecily Layzell) — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 11:18:29 GMT

Greenwoods café and tea room offers Anglophile Amsterdammers and homesick Brits a slice of Blighty on Singel canal.

OCHA

cecilylayzell@yahoo.com (Cecily Layzell) — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 10:35:29 GMT

In an area overrun with Thai restaurants, OCHA manages to stand out from the crowd.

Eetcafé Vrienden

cecilylayzell@yahoo.com (Cecily Layzell) — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:11:03 GMT

De Pijp neighbourhood offers plenty of food options, from Albert Cuyp market, to ethnic cafés and more upmarket eateries, such as Eetcafé Vrienden.

Bar Italia Espresso Bar

cecilylayzell@yahoo.com (Cecily Layzell) — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:15:01 GMT

Bar Italia is an ambitious wining and dining concept that stretches from Rokin to Nes. After visiting the restaurant and caffè (bar), it was time to try out the espresso bar, part three of this gastronomic triumvirate.

Top terraces: Amsterdam's big five

cecilylayzell@yahoo.com (Cecily Layzell) — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:15:49 GMT

Despite unpredictable weather and a general shortage of space, Amsterdam has some fantastic terraces, often with picture-postcard views as an added bonus. Here is Eat Amsterdam's big five for when the sun does shine.

Wine Bar DiVino

cecilylayzell@yahoo.com (Cecily Layzell) — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:16:42 GMT

Wine Bar DiVino’s tagline is ‘not hip and trendy, but cosy, atmospheric and affordable’. Starting out by saying so emphatically what you’re not is an interesting marketing approach but one I find oddly compelling. I’m often disappointed by wine in Amsterdam bars – there’s still much more attention paid to the hop than the grape - so I just had to check this wine bar out.

Aan de Poel

cecilylayzell@yahoo.com (Cecily Layzell) — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 15:04:20 GMT

I was never a big fan of Amstelveen. At least, until I ate at restaurant Aan de Poel. Perhaps it was capital city arrogance; perhaps it was because Amstelveen, a municipality near Schiphol Airport, is popular with families and I'm not at that stage in my life; or maybe I just hadn't been to the good parts.

Vegetarian Restaurant Betty's

cecilylayzell@yahoo.com (Cecily Layzell) — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:32:20 GMT

I was a vegetarian for six years before rediscovering the pleasure of flesh in the most wonderful creamy chicken curry in Asia. I've eaten meat ever since, but have always had a soft spot for vegetarian food, despite being frequently amazed at the lack of imagination most restaurants display in their meat-free dishes. As a result, I was intrigued to discover vegetarian restaurant Betty's.

Cheap Amsterdam: Frozz frozen yoghurt

cecilylayzell@yahoo.com (Cecily Layzell) — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:09:23 GMT

Holland’s first frozen yoghurt bar has opened in Amsterdam. Tucked into a corner of Spoiled Denim Bar in the Negen Straatjes, Frozz serves frozen Dutch yoghurt with three toppings of your choice.

Frozz Frozen Yoghurt

cecilylayzell@yahoo.com (Cecily Layzell) — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:01:26 GMT

Holland’s first frozen yoghurt bar has opened in Amsterdam. Not that frozen yoghurt wasn't available here before; there was just nowhere dedicated to it. Frozz has changed that.

Rutte Distillery launches Europe's first organic vodka

cecilylayzell@yahoo.com (Cecily Layzell) — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:53:17 GMT

Rutte Distillery has introduced Europe's first certified organic vodka. "We knew it was a really good vodka, because people came from all over the place - even Russians came to our shop - to buy our vodka,” says director Myriam Hendrickx.

Taste of Culture

cecilylayzell@yahoo.com (Cecily Layzell) — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:41:31 GMT

What does culture taste like? That was a question I set out to answer at Chinese restaurant Taste of Culture. It is located on Korte Leidsedwarsstraat, a side street off Leidseplein known for its many mediocre tourist traps. On the recommendation of a friend, I decided to give it the benefit of the doubt.

Strawberry mob in Amsterdam - the day after

cecilylayzell@yahoo.com (Cecily Layzell) — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:43:47 GMT

An estimated 200 people gathered on Museumplein yesterday at 2 p.m. for the first ever Strawberry mob. As strawberry grower Jan Robben appeared through Amsterdam’s Sunday traffic in a tractor, a loud cheer went up. “You always score with this Robben,” he joked, making reference to Arjen Robben, a Dutch footballer currently in South Africa with the national team for the 2010 World Cup.

Strawberry mob in Amsterdam

cecilylayzell@yahoo.com (Cecily Layzell) — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:55:15 GMT

Twitter has been, uh, a-twitter with talk of a strawberry mob in Amsterdam for several weeks. We know that the mob will gather on July 4 at 2 p.m., but the location has yet to be announced - sending Twittering foodies into frenzied speculation.

Taste of Amsterdam: photo report

cecilylayzell@yahoo.com (Cecily Layzell) — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:13:25 GMT

Taste of Amsterdam closed on Sunday June 27. Eat Amsterdam was there for the lunch session and has compiled a photo report of some of the goodies on offer.

My Burrito

cecilylayzell@yahoo.com (Cecily Layzell) — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:06:51 GMT

“You don't have to live a perfect life; you just have to live a little better,” is Lasse Nielsen’s philosophy. The owner of My Burrito has applied that philosophy to his Mexican café and takeaway joint on Kinkerstraat with impressive dedication. His menu of burritos, tacos and quesadillas is entirely organic, save for a handful of specific ingredients (chipotle chillies, jalapeños, tomatillos) he can't find in organic form.