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We have just returned to France from a week's holiday in Amsterdam. I have a few suggestions for other travellers. We had previously stayed at www.hoteltoren.com. Great place. Very charming and family run (which we like). This time around we rented an apartment through www.apartments-for-rent.com/amsterdam.
We booked an apartment in the Jordaan area on the Prinsencanal. We were very lucky to meet some young guys the first day we arrived. They run a small boat rental business called www.boothurenamsterdam.com (which translates into boat rental amsterdam) The guys who run it are amazing and give us a whole list of fun things to do in the neighbourhood. We did not leave the Jordaan area except for a brunch at the www.bakkerswinkel.nl in the Westerpark.
The boat rebtal guys suggested little Amsterdam gems like www.tazzina.nl and www.cinemaparadiso.info/
www.boothurenamsterdam.com
www.apartments-for-rent.com/amsterdam
www.bakkerswinkel.nl
www.hoteltoren.nl
Set in the Museum Quarter, the restaurant is only a stone's throw from the city's most popular museums and makes an ideal dinnertime stop. It is also fairly reasonably priced in what is otherwise a rather pricey area. The service was friendly, personal and relaxed. More importantly, the food was divine. Good quality, carefully cooked - relaxed dining as it should be on holiday.
Willemsparkweg 6, Museum Quarter
Tel: 020 662 62 06
From the outside, it just looks like a bar near the red light district, but this place serves the highest quality Thai food in Amsterdam. The rice noodles are particularly fresh and delicious. Thoroughly recommended!
The clientele are sometimes very interesting….
www.butterfly-thaicafe.nl/
Phone: 020 6232064
Address: Oudezijds Achterburgwal 160
Great meat feast and happy friendly service.
Reguliersdwarsstraat 57, 1017 BK Amsterdam, 020 626 50 80
Just off the route of the #2 tram lie a number of interesting restaurants, notably, Le 4 Stagioni, a former butcher's shop, with antique tiles portraying the four seasons - le 4 stagioni.
- Palma, Johannes Verhulststraat 104, www.restaurant-palma.nl/do.php?lg=eng
- Oud-Zuid, Johannes Verhulststraat 64, www.restaurantoudzuid.nl
- Le 4 Stagioni, Johannes Verhulststraat 32, www.le4stagioni.nl
- Pulpo, Willemsparkweg 87, www.restaurant-pulpo.nl/index.php?pag=diner
Yes, I know that Kilimanjaro is in Tanzania, not Ethiopia, but this little eatery specialises in Ethiopian-style dishes - and you can hold the predictable jokes too.
There's a limited but great-value repertoire here, and on an empty stomach the all-in get-your-hands-dirty dishes are to die for. If there's a group of you, order a variety of mains (all served on a stodgy bed of pancakes) and you can pull off a massive dinner for under 15 Euros per head.
Rapenburgerplein 6
+31 20 6223485
Bus no.22 from Centraal Station
When visiting Amsterdam, try the Supper Club, a great, chilled out place that includes a five-course surprise menu, which is fab. The music is great and is suitable for all ages. The meal finishes at about midnight, and then there is a nightclub to which you get free entry if you have the energy.
In Amsterdam, the former city glasshouse has been restored and turned into the light-filled, airy De Kas restaurant, with smaller glasshouses around the main room used to grow herbs and vegetables. Book for dinner in high summer and start with a glass of champagne flavoured with a basil leaf, followed by delicious, seasonal food like confit duck, grilled fish, fresh salads and tiny jellies made from fresh berries. They serve one daily, five course menu so all you need to do is book a table, turn up and relax - neatly avoiding both menu dilemmas and dinner envy.
Kamerlingh Onneslaan 3
1097 DE
www.restaurantdekas.nl/4menu_eng.php
A fantastic restaurant, if you like steak or lobster with great service and a cosy atmosphere, is Restaurant RED (Keizersgracht 594).
Club 11 is great. It's on the top floor of an otherwise deserted warehouse, the walls are covered in graffiti and you use what looks like a service elevator to go up. When you get there, it's a huge open space with great views of the city. Tasty food, too.
Oosterdokkade
Restaurant De Waaghals in Amsterdam is the best veggie restaurant ever - amazing desserts!
Start the day by heading to De Bakkerswinkel bakery on 69 Warmoesstraat for a delightful breakfast. Their filled rolls, fresh from the oven are divine.
Work off breakfast by exploring the canals, visiting the floating Singel flower market and buying tulip bulbs for green-fingered friends and family. Take in some culture at the Van Gogh museum; alternatively, if the sun is shining, head south for a picnic in Vondelpark.
Spend the evening relaxing over delicious food and wine at Morlang (Keizersgracht 451); on a warm evening, sit on the terrace outside, overlooking one of Amsterdam’s tranquil canals.
www.debakkerswinkel.nl/
www.amsterdamtourist.nl/en/home/about+amsterdam/Amsterdam+Surprise/article/xp/content_artikel.Surprise+EN+-Floating+flower+market/default.aspx
www.morlang.nl/
Visit De Kas restaurant. Away from the tourist centre this wonderful greenhouse restaurant serves whatever fresh food has been harvested that day. Please don't tell everyone!
Kamerlingh Onneslaan 3 1097 DE
You just have to try De Bakkerswinkel - we even put up with drunken stags to eat every day in this heaven-sent cafe in the middle of the red light district. You can see them baking the bread and cakes and bottling the jam. Great for breakfast, lunch or cakes in the afternoon, it's chilled and relaxed; we all wanted to live there!
Many families with young children are put off by the red-light-district, coffee-house, stag-party reputation of Amsterdam. However, it is a great city for young children.
NEMO is a children's science museum in the main harbour, right next to Central railway station. It has to be the best kids musem in Europe. Every exhibit is interactive, kids can dress up as scientists and blow things up in the lab (carefully helped by real scientists!). They can also appear on TV, wrap themselves up in giant bubbles and watch a fantastic great-egg-race-style show every half hour.
Despite being in Holland, every exhibit is also described in English and the presentations and announcements are also bilingual. The museum is great for kids aged from 4 to 14, and is so big that you can easily spend several hours there.
Once you have exhausted yourselves there, try the Pannenkoekenhuis, a pancake house in a 17th-century warehouse overlooking the canal on Prinsengracht. The kids' pancakes come with toys, games and fireworks to finish the day off with a bang!
You must visit the Casa Peru, a lively Peruvian restaurant with excellent food (and not a guinea pig in sight, for those of us squeamish enough to mind!).
Find it on the Leidsegracht/Prinsengracht junction. My favourite dish was Aguadito de Mariscos (seafood soup) - excellent!
Now here's an irony: for a novel experience, the Ethiopian restaurant Semhar at 259-261 Marnixstraat is a must-try.
Use your digits to dive into delicious food served for your table on a giant tray, mopped up with ginormous pancakes and washed down with banana or palm-nut beer. Of course, you can generate an appetite for the great food by walking from the Red Light District - but you'll be too stuffed to walk back again! If you do make it back, wash your hands before you get there: residual chilli could make things painful.
Marnixstraat 259-261, Jordaan.
Travel 15 mins outside the centre of Amsterdam to a lovely suburb called Haarlem. Not only is it a charming market-townesque place with its own square, it also has a wonderful steak restaurant called Wilma & Albert's. You have to try their ribs!
Visit Gaucho's restaurant (Damstraat 5) - they did the most amazing steak I have ever tasted!
For a great bar/restaurant, try the old first-class waiting room on platform 2b of Amsterdam Central station. Really ornate decoration, good food and definitely worth a visit.
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