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Hartog's Volkoren Bakkerij en Maalderij
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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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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Long-running family bakery selling sourdough bread, pizza, pastries & breakfast in a cool space.
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Cocktails, draft beers & all-day dining, plus live music, in a 17th-century warehouse by a canal.
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Laid-back bakery & cafe turning out a diverse selection of traditional French pastries.
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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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Scandinavian-style breakfast, lunch & specialty coffee served in a minimal, rustic space.
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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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Classy, whitewashed restaurant with a bar & a terrace, offering lunch, dinner & drinks.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Upscale eatery in the Rijksmuseum, offering elegant dishes inspired by local ingredients.
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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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High-end venue in Hotel TwentySeven, preparing avant-garde meat & seafood plates, plus sake & wine.
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Upscale modern French cuisine served in an atmospheric former 1700s bakery at the hip Dylan Hotel.
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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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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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French-Flemish dishes served in a modern, industrial canteen restaurant with an open kitchen.
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Creative Mediterranean fare for breakfast, lunch & dinner is served in this chic, light-filled spot.
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Posh venue on the 23rd floor of the Hotel Okura offering creative European fare & views of the city.
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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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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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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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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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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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Amsterdam's most walked park, since 1865. Ponds, an open-air theatre, and a Picasso sculpture standing among the trees.
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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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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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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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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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Dark wood & Art Deco accents adorn this Prohibition era-style bar for classic & creative cocktails.
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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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Traditional pub with wood-paneled walls & a canalside terrace, serving hearty food & Belgian beers.
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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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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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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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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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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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Hip venue lined with quirky stained glass for alternative gigs & club nights from hip-hop to reggae.
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