Amsterdam Guidebook

Juul & Ruub
Juul & Ruub
Amsterdam Guidebook

Food Scene

Awesome for breakfast, around the corner!
372 locals recommend
Coffee & Coconuts
282 Ceintuurbaan
372 locals recommend
Awesome for breakfast, around the corner!
Super close-by and we love the food so much! Tiny place, be on time.
52 locals recommend
Mana Mana
85H Eerste Jan Steenstraat
52 locals recommend
Super close-by and we love the food so much! Tiny place, be on time.
Best (Italian) ice cream in town
50 locals recommend
Massimo Gelato
147 H Van Ostadestraat
50 locals recommend
Best (Italian) ice cream in town
Incredible Ramen soup (tiny) restaurant. Must go lunch / dinner!
11 locals recommend
SORA Sapporo Ramen
49 Ceintuurbaan
11 locals recommend
Incredible Ramen soup (tiny) restaurant. Must go lunch / dinner!
Great super cosy Mexican place. Awesome home made dishes and sauces. Cocktails and beers. Love it inside and a tiny terrace for beautiful Mexican snacks in the sun...
Señor Mostachio
183H Ruysdaelkade
Great super cosy Mexican place. Awesome home made dishes and sauces. Cocktails and beers. Love it inside and a tiny terrace for beautiful Mexican snacks in the sun...
Chicken dishes 🍗
196 locals recommend
Van 't Spit
95 De Clercqstraat
196 locals recommend
Chicken dishes 🍗
Try the chicken and avocado sandwich 🥪
158 locals recommend
De Wasserette
27 Eerste van der Helststraat
158 locals recommend
Try the chicken and avocado sandwich 🥪
Fun and delicious typical Dutch bar.
85 locals recommend
PILSVOGEL
14 Gerard Douplein
85 locals recommend
Fun and delicious typical Dutch bar.
Tiny place, awesome coffee!
172 locals recommend
Scandinavian Embassy
34 Sarphatipark
172 locals recommend
Tiny place, awesome coffee!
Wonderful Italian food, medium priced, 15 minutes walk.
14 locals recommend
Impero Romano Amsterdam
25 Amsteldijk
14 locals recommend
Wonderful Italian food, medium priced, 15 minutes walk.
Higher profile style foods. Great kitchen.
61 locals recommend
Choux
128 De Ruijterkade
61 locals recommend
Higher profile style foods. Great kitchen.
Amsterdam Noord is upcoming and this is one of the secret spots. A little cafe restaurant in a park! Also good for a drink on a Sunday and play some petanque!
31 locals recommend
Pompet
Floraparkweg
31 locals recommend
Amsterdam Noord is upcoming and this is one of the secret spots. A little cafe restaurant in a park! Also good for a drink on a Sunday and play some petanque!
Great for brunch / lunch, next to the Amstel Canal and awesome terrace.
399 locals recommend
Café Restaurant De Ysbreeker
23 Weesperzijde
399 locals recommend
Great for brunch / lunch, next to the Amstel Canal and awesome terrace.
Higher profile kitchen, we love it.
410 locals recommend
Hotel De Goudfazant
30 Aambeeldstraat
410 locals recommend
Higher profile kitchen, we love it.
Wonderful space, medium priced kitchen, in fun industrial area of Westerpark.
Cantine de Caron
Wonderful space, medium priced kitchen, in fun industrial area of Westerpark.
Super cosy place, awesome food and wine, medium/high priced.
82 locals recommend
Worst Wijncafé
171 Barentszstraat
82 locals recommend
Super cosy place, awesome food and wine, medium/high priced.
Romantic old house great for food and drinks, next to the water. Easy to bike or boat to the location.
105 locals recommend
tHUIS aan de AMSTEL
45 Korte Ouderkerkerdijk
105 locals recommend
Romantic old house great for food and drinks, next to the water. Easy to bike or boat to the location.
Stylistic cafe next to the city zoo. Great decoration and fine foods / wines.
224 locals recommend
De Plantage
36 Plantage Kerklaan
224 locals recommend
Stylistic cafe next to the city zoo. Great decoration and fine foods / wines.
Fun & funky tiny cafe with awesome fresh lunch (soups) / cakes on menu.
63 locals recommend
Latei
143 Zeedijk
63 locals recommend
Fun & funky tiny cafe with awesome fresh lunch (soups) / cakes on menu.
Our favourite (real Spanish) tapas and great ambiance restaurant
24 locals recommend
Duende Dos
1-3 Nieuwe Willemsstraat
24 locals recommend
Our favourite (real Spanish) tapas and great ambiance restaurant
Upper class dining with superb 3 to 5 course dinner, not cheap.
63 locals recommend
BREDA
210 Singel
63 locals recommend
Upper class dining with superb 3 to 5 course dinner, not cheap.
Great stylistic night life cocktail bar and grill / vegan restaurant (same owners as SohoHouse)
15 locals recommend
Lotti's Cafe Bar & Grill
255 Herengracht
15 locals recommend
Great stylistic night life cocktail bar and grill / vegan restaurant (same owners as SohoHouse)
Our favorite creative cafe in the red light district! Vegan dishes
15 locals recommend
Ivy and Bros
96A Oudezijds Voorburgwal
15 locals recommend
Our favorite creative cafe in the red light district! Vegan dishes
Super high industrial ceilings, unique cafe not too expensive. Must go!
284 locals recommend
Café Restaurant Amsterdam
6 Watertorenplein
284 locals recommend
Super high industrial ceilings, unique cafe not too expensive. Must go!
One of the best coffee / cake places in old church garden red light district
13 locals recommend
De Koffieschenkerij
27 Oudekerksplein
13 locals recommend
One of the best coffee / cake places in old church garden red light district
Surf, fireplace, food, drinks... You might need a car / lift to get there.
49 locals recommend
Timboektoe
1 Reyndersweg
49 locals recommend
Surf, fireplace, food, drinks... You might need a car / lift to get there.
Easy to get to this beach by train. Stylistic sea joint, great foods/drinks beach fun.
99 locals recommend
Ubuntu Strandbar
1 Boulevard Paulus Loot
99 locals recommend
Easy to get to this beach by train. Stylistic sea joint, great foods/drinks beach fun.

Drinks & Nightlife

Best Wines!
146 locals recommend
Glou Glou
3 Tweede van der Helststraat
146 locals recommend
Best Wines!
Foodhall/Cinema/Bars/Shops
615 locals recommend
De Hallen Amsterdam
47 Hannie Dankbaarpassage
615 locals recommend
Foodhall/Cinema/Bars/Shops
Dependance of the main Paradiso venue, but in Noord. Also good restaurant next door!
16 locals recommend
Paradiso Noord
2 IJpromenade
16 locals recommend
Dependance of the main Paradiso venue, but in Noord. Also good restaurant next door!
Artistic industrial area with a couple of unforgettable creative restaurants and bar options.
55 locals recommend
NDSM-Plein
NDSM-Plein
55 locals recommend
Artistic industrial area with a couple of unforgettable creative restaurants and bar options.
Mid-century styles great ambiance live music🎵 bar & Italian food (reserve for the restaurant!) down stairs of (private) Sohohouse Club.
29 locals recommend
Cacao Connections Amsterdam
210 Spuistraat
29 locals recommend
Mid-century styles great ambiance live music🎵 bar & Italian food (reserve for the restaurant!) down stairs of (private) Sohohouse Club.
Cocktails 🍸 the best in town, a real experience. Knock on the closed door and wait for the hostess! (expect €10 drinks)
52 locals recommend
Bar Oldenhof
84-H Elandsgracht
52 locals recommend
Cocktails 🍸 the best in town, a real experience. Knock on the closed door and wait for the hostess! (expect €10 drinks)

Arts & Culture

Art gallery around the corner of our location, representing upcoming Dutch visual artists. Check their website for the agenda.
Modern art museum
1544 locals recommend
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
10 Museumplein
1544 locals recommend
Modern art museum
Rembrandt’s time
472 locals recommend
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum station
472 locals recommend
Rembrandt’s time
Cinemas and exhibitions about cinema / VR + lunch / dinner with awesome view on Amsterdam skyline
1109 locals recommend
Eye Film Museum
1 IJpromenade
1109 locals recommend
Cinemas and exhibitions about cinema / VR + lunch / dinner with awesome view on Amsterdam skyline
Mixed exhibitions
604 locals recommend
Hermitage Amsterdam
51 Amstel
604 locals recommend
Mixed exhibitions
Contemporary photography gallery
792 locals recommend
Foam
609 Keizersgracht
792 locals recommend
Contemporary photography gallery
Art gallery representing new and upcoming Amsterdam based artists, run by our friends curators Meijer and Ruben.
Vriend van Bavink Gallery
34 Geldersekade
Art gallery representing new and upcoming Amsterdam based artists, run by our friends curators Meijer and Ruben.
GoMulan Gallery
43A Van Ostadestraat
OODE brings the work of young Dutch designers together with orphaned art – art from closed museums and art institutions.
Oode
159A Singel
OODE brings the work of young Dutch designers together with orphaned art – art from closed museums and art institutions.
NMAG breaks the global art market wide open for artists early in their career by organizing pop-up galleries all over the world.
24 locals recommend
No Man's Art Gallery
90 Bos en Lommerweg
24 locals recommend
NMAG breaks the global art market wide open for artists early in their career by organizing pop-up galleries all over the world.
Galerie Fons Welters is a gallery presenting exhibitions by emerging and mid-career contemporary artists. Located in the center of Amsterdam, the gallery presents both national and international artists.
Galerie Fons Welters
140 Bloemstraat
Galerie Fons Welters is a gallery presenting exhibitions by emerging and mid-career contemporary artists. Located in the center of Amsterdam, the gallery presents both national and international artists.
Functioning as a springboard for emerging Dutch artists, TORCH was the starting point for internationally renowned artists like Anton Corbijn and Inez van Lamsweerde.
Torch Gallery
94 Lauriergracht
Functioning as a springboard for emerging Dutch artists, TORCH was the starting point for internationally renowned artists like Anton Corbijn and Inez van Lamsweerde.
GRIMM is a contemporary art gallery representing over thirty international artists. Since its establishment in 2005, it has been the gallery’s mission to represent and support the work of emerging and mid-career artists working in all media.
GRIMM Frans Halsstraat
80 Van Baerlestraat
GRIMM is a contemporary art gallery representing over thirty international artists. Since its establishment in 2005, it has been the gallery’s mission to represent and support the work of emerging and mid-career artists working in all media.
AKINCI presents artists whose working practice spans a range of current media, reflecting the diversity of communication means available within contemporary visual art.
Gallery Akinci
317 Lijnbaansgracht
AKINCI presents artists whose working practice spans a range of current media, reflecting the diversity of communication means available within contemporary visual art.
Annet Gelink Gallery is one of the leading contemporary art-galleries in the Netherlands. It is situated in the center of Amsterdam.
Annet Gelink Gallery
189 Laurierstraat
Annet Gelink Gallery is one of the leading contemporary art-galleries in the Netherlands. It is situated in the center of Amsterdam.
There are now about 7000 titles - almost exclusively self published or small press books. Those who run it – Henriëtte van Egten (Dutch), Rúna Thorkelsdóttir (Icelandic) and Jan Voss (German) have continued their personal artists’ careers and since years count the shop itself as a sculpture in progress they work on concertedly.
Boekie Woekie
39 Berenstraat
There are now about 7000 titles - almost exclusively self published or small press books. Those who run it – Henriëtte van Egten (Dutch), Rúna Thorkelsdóttir (Icelandic) and Jan Voss (German) have continued their personal artists’ careers and since years count the shop itself as a sculpture in progress they work on concertedly.
Josilda da Conceição Gallery is a contemporary art space that focuses on the developing emerging artists by providing a platform to showcase their work.
Josilda da Conceição
70 Pieter Aertszstraat
Josilda da Conceição Gallery is a contemporary art space that focuses on the developing emerging artists by providing a platform to showcase their work.
Gallery AND cafe... Collectivism, Anti-Style, Experimental, Spontaneous and Anti-Intellectual. The core values on which Art Room MINA lives by while creating different projects. MINA’s projects represent Amsterdam’s young art culture and revolves around a wide range of different topics.
Artroom MINA
69 Weteringschans
Gallery AND cafe... Collectivism, Anti-Style, Experimental, Spontaneous and Anti-Intellectual. The core values on which Art Room MINA lives by while creating different projects. MINA’s projects represent Amsterdam’s young art culture and revolves around a wide range of different topics.
Live jazz music with background view of the city. Check their music calendar for who’s playing.
120 locals recommend
Bimhuis
3 Piet Heinkade
120 locals recommend
Live jazz music with background view of the city. Check their music calendar for who’s playing.

Parks & Nature

Botanical gardens and cafe
299 locals recommend
Hortus Botanicus
2a Plantage Middenlaan
299 locals recommend
Botanical gardens and cafe
Our next door park, with children playground, birds, climbing trees, water and public outdoors workout equipment (incl ping pong tables and jeux de boules lanes!)
685 locals recommend
Sarphatipark
37I Sarphatipark
685 locals recommend
Our next door park, with children playground, birds, climbing trees, water and public outdoors workout equipment (incl ping pong tables and jeux de boules lanes!)
Biggest park of Amsterdam with water, cafes, playgrounds, tennis court etc
4196 locals recommend
Vondelpark
4196 locals recommend
Biggest park of Amsterdam with water, cafes, playgrounds, tennis court etc
Most beautiful larger park of Amsterdam, walking distance. Great for picknick (bring food…)
167 locals recommend
Beatrixpark
21 Diepenbrockstraat
167 locals recommend
Most beautiful larger park of Amsterdam, walking distance. Great for picknick (bring food…)

Entertainment & Activities

City Zoo
119 locals recommend
Amsterdam, Artis station
119 locals recommend
City Zoo
Cinemas, with food hall next door...
243 locals recommend
Filmhallen
12 Hannie Dankbaarpassage
243 locals recommend
Cinemas, with food hall next door...
The best Spa in Amsterdam for naked swim / sauna / steam / restaurant etc. Located next to the Forest (great for walking / pancake house / goat farm / baby pools). 20 min bike from our place (or grab an Uber taxi)
78 locals recommend
Spa Sport Hotel Zuiver
8 Koenenkade
78 locals recommend
The best Spa in Amsterdam for naked swim / sauna / steam / restaurant etc. Located next to the Forest (great for walking / pancake house / goat farm / baby pools). 20 min bike from our place (or grab an Uber taxi)
Dutch artist Teun Castelein pulled two former migrant boats from the Mediterranean to Amsterdam. To start the most inclusive, the most colourful and probably the most sympathetic canal cruise company of the city... (free of charge or €35 or group options, check website www.rederijlampedusa.nl/en)
Rederij Lampedusa
6 Dijksgracht
Dutch artist Teun Castelein pulled two former migrant boats from the Mediterranean to Amsterdam. To start the most inclusive, the most colourful and probably the most sympathetic canal cruise company of the city... (free of charge or €35 or group options, check website www.rederijlampedusa.nl/en)
You adore kittens? You love coffee? Then this is the place for you; drink coffee while surrounded bij a bunch of cats 🐱
19 locals recommend
Kattencafe Kopjes
211 Marco Polostraat
19 locals recommend
You adore kittens? You love coffee? Then this is the place for you; drink coffee while surrounded bij a bunch of cats 🐱

Getting Around

Bike rental; cycle on non-polished bikes like local Amsterdammers do...
40 locals recommend
Ajax Bike
153 Gerard Doustraat
40 locals recommend
Bike rental; cycle on non-polished bikes like local Amsterdammers do...

Essentials

Closest small supermarket, good quality groceries and bread
514 locals recommend
Jumbo
55H Eerste Constantijn Huygensstraat
514 locals recommend
Closest small supermarket, good quality groceries and bread
Second closest medium sized supermarket, cheaper incl postal office
62 locals recommend
Coop
53 Eerste Jan Steenstraat
62 locals recommend
Second closest medium sized supermarket, cheaper incl postal office
more health/vegan food groceries, longer walk 10 mins
857 locals recommend
Marqt
402 Ceintuurbaan
857 locals recommend
more health/vegan food groceries, longer walk 10 mins
Bigger supermarket, great quality, medium priced
176 locals recommend
AH Cornelis Troostplein
11 Cornelis Troostplein
176 locals recommend
Bigger supermarket, great quality, medium priced
Grocer for your typical soaps / makeups / toothbrushes etc
38 locals recommend
Kruidvat
1033 Oostelijke Handelskade
38 locals recommend
Grocer for your typical soaps / makeups / toothbrushes etc