Where to eat in Amsterdam

Restaurants, cafés and street food in Amsterdam, Netherlands that locals actually go to — plus the local names for the chains you already know.

• Café Loetje — Steak café, Oud-Zuid (2). Order the Biefstuk Loetje + white bread. The biefstuk in gravy that every Amsterdammer grew up on.
• Vleminckx Sausmeesters — Fries, Centrum (1). Order the Vlaamse frites, oorlog style. The frites wall on Voetboogstraat since 1957.
• Moeders — Dutch home cooking, De Baarsjes / Rozengracht (2). Order the Stamppot sampler. Stamppot under a thousand photos of mothers.
• Tempo Doeloe — Indonesian, Utrechtsestraat (3). Order the Rijsttafel istimewa. The classic rijsttafel address — spice levels mean it.
• Winkel 43 — Café, Jordaan / Noordermarkt (1). Order the Appeltaart met slagroom. The other legendary appeltaart — pick your allegiance.
• Café Papeneiland — Brown café, Jordaan (1). Order the Appeltaart + koffie. A 1642 brown café; Bill Clinton once queued for the apple pie.
• The Pancake Bakery — Pancakes, Prinsengracht (2). Order the Dutch pancake with apple + bacon. Canal-house pannenkoeken in a 17th-century warehouse.
• FEBO — Automat, Centrum (multiple) (1). Order the Kroket uit de muur. Kroketten from a wall of little windows — pure Dutch ritual.
• Van Stapele Koekmakerij — Cookies, Centrum (1). Order the The chocolate cookie (the only one). One cookie, baked all day, gone by evening.

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