Amsterdam

The Amsterdam Guide

The most-loved places in Amsterdam, from breakfast to late at night. All on one page, ready to add to your plan.

TripmaniaAugust 28, 2026

42 stops

Breakfast

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Hartog's Volkoren Bakkerij en Maalderij

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Hartog's Volkoren Bakkerij en Maalderij

4.8Google(845 reviews)

Wholemeal only, since 1896. Dutch wheat ground daily in their own mill, and through the street windows you can watch the milling and the bread leaving the oven.

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Bakhuys Amsterdam

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Bakhuys Amsterdam

4.5Google(2,418 reviews)

GoogleLong-running family bakery selling sourdough bread, pizza, pastries & breakfast in a cool space.

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Café Kobalt

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Café Kobalt

4.2Google(1,773 reviews)

GoogleCocktails, draft beers & all-day dining, plus live music, in a 17th-century warehouse by a canal.

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Petit gâteau

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Petit gâteau

4.7Google(953 reviews)

GoogleLaid-back bakery & cafe turning out a diverse selection of traditional French pastries.

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Bakers & Roasters

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Bakers & Roasters

4.6Google(737 reviews)CafeEuropean

A brunch room on Kadijksplein where New Zealand and Brazilian cooking meet, known for pancakes, strong coffee and Navajo eggs under pulled pork.

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The Gourmet Edit

Scandinavian Embassy

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Scandinavian Embassy

4.4Google(1,872 reviews)

GoogleScandinavian-style breakfast, lunch & specialty coffee served in a minimal, rustic space.

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Benji's

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Benji's

4.4Google(919 reviews)

An all-day brunch room in De Baarsjes, with a menu that borrows from kitchens around the world, coffee from a local roastery and cocktails to go with it.

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BUFFET van Odette

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BUFFET van Odette

4.2Google(1,068 reviews)

GoogleClassy, whitewashed restaurant with a bar & a terrace, offering lunch, dinner & drinks.

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Lunch

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Foodhallen

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Foodhallen

4.4Google(23,012 reviews)

A food hall inside a tram depot built at the turn of the last century in Oud-West. The steel beams and the old rails are still where they were.

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Broodje Bert

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Broodje Bert

4.6Google(881 reviews)CafeEuropean

A small shop on a corner of the Singel that deals in outsized sandwiches. The one it is known for is marinated chicken off the grill, with garlic sauce.

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Winkel 43

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Winkel 43

4.5Google(16,417 reviews)

A café on the corner of the Noordermarkt. Its name rests on the apple pie, and on market days the queue reaches the door.

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Sonny

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Sonny

4.9Google(813 reviews)

A small room in De Pijp that puts vegetables at the centre. The plates come to be shared and the menu turns with the season.

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Bar Botanique | Restaurant Amsterdam-Oost

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Bar Botanique | Restaurant Amsterdam-Oost

4.3Google(2,761 reviews)

An all-day café in Amsterdam Oost, planted from floor to ceiling with ferns and palms, with a Mediterranean menu of small plates made for sharing.

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Restaurant De Kas

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Restaurant De Kas

4.7Google(3,693 reviews)

In a glasshouse built as a municipal nursery in 1926. Most of the vegetables come from the garden beside it, and the menu follows the day's picking.

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Rijks

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Rijks

4.4Google(1,812 reviews)

GoogleUpscale eatery in the Rijksmuseum, offering elegant dishes inspired by local ingredients.

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Restaurant Wolf Atelier

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Restaurant Wolf Atelier

4.7Google(1,499 reviews)

Built on an old railway swing bridge over the Westerdok. The room is glass, and the water sits below it on every side.

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Restaurant Bougainville

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Restaurant Bougainville

4.8Google(477 reviews)Every day 18:30 – 22:00

GoogleHigh-end venue in Hotel TwentySeven, preparing avant-garde meat & seafood plates, plus sake & wine.

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Restaurant Vinkeles

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Restaurant Vinkeles

4.7Google(404 reviews)

GoogleUpscale modern French cuisine served in an atmospheric former 1700s bakery at the hip Dylan Hotel.

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Dinner

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Sterk Staaltje

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Sterk Staaltje

4.5Google(205 reviews)

A greengrocer and delicatessen in one on Staalstraat. The vegetables spill onto the pavement in crates, and sandwiches are made at the counter.

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Café De Klepel

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Café De Klepel

4.7Google(705 reviews)

A small French dining room on the Prinsenstraat. The menu changes daily, three courses or four, and the all-French list runs past three hundred bottles.

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Rijsel

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Rijsel

4.6Google(668 reviews)

GoogleFrench-Flemish dishes served in a modern, industrial canteen restaurant with an open kitchen.

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Café-Restaurant De Plantage

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Café-Restaurant De Plantage

4.2Google(3,433 reviews)

GoogleCreative Mediterranean fare for breakfast, lunch & dinner is served in this chic, light-filled spot.

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Ciel Bleu Restaurant

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Ciel Bleu Restaurant

4.7Google(480 reviews)

GooglePosh venue on the 23rd floor of the Hotel Okura offering creative European fare & views of the city.

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Museums

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

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Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

4.7Google(115,236 reviews)

Cuypers finished the building in 1885, and a cycle path runs straight through it. Rembrandt's Night Watch and the Vermeers are upstairs.

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Van Gogh Museum

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Van Gogh Museum

4.6Google(107,884 reviews)

On the Museumplein, the largest gathering of Van Goghs anywhere. The paintings hang in date order, with his drawings and letters beside them.

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Anne Frank House

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Anne Frank House

4.5Google(75,719 reviews)

The canal house where Anne Frank hid opened as a museum in 1960. The Secret Annex stands unfurnished behind its bookcase door, and her diary is on display.

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National Maritime Museum

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National Maritime Museum

4.5Google(13,470 reviews)Every day 10:00 – 17:00

Inside the admiralty warehouse of 1656. Charts, globes and instruments within, and a replica East Indiaman moored at the quay outside.

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Rembrandt House Museum

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Rembrandt House Museum

4.5Google(15,298 reviews)Every day 10:00 – 18:00

The house where Rembrandt lived for twenty years and went bankrupt. Because the bankruptcy inventory survives, the rooms were furnished back to it.

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Parks

Vondelpark

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Vondelpark

4.7Google(61,033 reviews)

Amsterdam's most walked park, since 1865. Ponds, an open-air theatre, and a Picasso sculpture standing among the trees.

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Hortus Botanicus

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Hortus Botanicus

4.5Google(12,510 reviews)

Founded in 1638 as a herb garden for the city's doctors and apothecaries. Plants arrived later from across the world, and the Palm House of 1912 still stands.

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Westerpark

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Westerpark

4.6Google(14,325 reviews)

The buildings of a former gasworks and the park around them. Festivals and exhibitions in the brick halls, grass along the canal outside.

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Amsterdam Forest

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Amsterdam Forest

4.6Google(18,871 reviews)Every day 00:00 – 00:00

A thousand hectares of woodland just outside Amsterdam, with walking and cycling paths, a working goat farm and the Bosbaan, a rowing lake dug in 1936.

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Oosterpark

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Oosterpark

4.5Google(6,872 reviews)Every day 00:00 – 00:00

Amsterdam's first large municipal park, opened in 1891. English landscape curves, and a pond in the middle where the waterbirds gather.

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Bars

Door 74

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Door 74

4.5Google(1,901 reviews)

GoogleDark wood & Art Deco accents adorn this Prohibition era-style bar for classic & creative cocktails.

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Wynand Fockink Proeflokaal - Slijterij - Distilleerderij

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Wynand Fockink Proeflokaal - Slijterij - Distilleerderij

4.7Google(2,261 reviews)Every day 14:00 – 21:00

A distillery and tasting room off the Pijlsteeg, working since 1679. The glass is filled to the brim, and the first sip is taken bending over it.

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Café 't Smalle

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Café 't Smalle

4.6Google(1,563 reviews)

GoogleTraditional pub with wood-paneled walls & a canalside terrace, serving hearty food & Belgian beers.

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Bar Oldenhof

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Bar Oldenhof

4.8Google(955 reviews)

A wood-panelled salon on the edge of the Jordaan where you ring the bell to get in, with a deep whisky shelf and a cocktail list rewritten every season.

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Rayleigh & Ramsay Van Wou

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Rayleigh & Ramsay Van Wou

4.5Google(540 reviews)

On Van Woustraat you pour the wine yourself. Tap a card, take as much as you want, and more than a hundred bottles line the wall.

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Nightlife

Shelter Amsterdam

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Shelter Amsterdam

3.6Google(851 reviews)

In the basement under the tower on the north bank of the IJ. No windows, and a programme built on techno and house.

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RADION Amsterdam

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RADION Amsterdam

4.4Google(2,421 reviews)

A former school building in Nieuw-West, now a cultural venue. A bar and café inside, and in the warm months the outside opens too.

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Club NYX

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Club NYX

3.6Google(1,709 reviews)

Named after Nyx, the goddess of night. Three floors on the Reguliersdwarsstraat, a different sound on each, opened in 2012 where Exit used to be.

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Bitterzoet

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Bitterzoet

4.2Google(1,611 reviews)

GoogleHip venue lined with quirky stained glass for alternative gigs & club nights from hip-hop to reggae.

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