Amsterdam’s Best Restaurants & Bars: Where Chefs Eat

12 places in this vlog

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1. 0:35

   De Pijp

   🏘️ Neighborhood · De Pijp · brief mention

2. 0:43

   Little Collins

   🍴 Restaurant · De Pijp

   Try the Turkish eggs with Aleppo butter, halloumi with red pepper purée, and the banana, dark chocolate and rosemary bread.

3. 3:20

   Grams

   ☕ Cafe · Amsterdam-West

   The pistachio-cream pastry with a white chocolate core and the dark and milk chocolate croissant are standouts.

4. 5:49

   Pulitzer's Bar

   🍺 Bar · Grachtengordel

   The Déjà Vu, a twist on an Old Fashioned, gets stronger once you taste the garnish; tables are marked 'promised' rather than reserved.

5. 6:48

   Oedipus Brewery

   🍺 Bar · Amsterdam-Noord

   Mama, the brewery's first beer, is still its best seller; the award-winning kimchi burger is recommended.

6. 8:23

   EuroPizza

   🍴 Restaurant · Amsterdam

   Highlights include barbecued sardine toast, sake-butter clams, and pizza with crème fraîche, cured ham and mustard butter.

7. 14:08

   4850

   ☕ Cafe · Amsterdam

   Known for its cardamom and cinnamon buns and sandwiches; often named as the best coffee in Amsterdam.

8. 16:35

   Chinatown (Zeedijk)

   🏘️ Neighborhood · Centrum · brief mention

9. 16:44

   New King

   🍴 Restaurant · Centrum

   Order the shrimp toast, the siu mai, and the siu mai noodle soup topped with roasted pork belly.

10. 18:42

    Fuku Ramen

    🍴 Restaurant · Oost

    Dishes include dry-aged bluefin tuna, Hokkaido scallops in brown butter, and ramen with three cuts of pork.

11. 21:59

    Stacked Diner

    🍴 Restaurant · Amsterdam

    The chicken biscuit should be eaten by hand, not with a knife and fork; the key lime pie is a standout.

12. 24:15

    Groovy Fluids Lab

    🍺 Bar · Amsterdam

    Try the burnt-lemon-cordial gimlet or the smoky whisky-based peach and hazelnut fizz.