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Chocolate Festival

A chocolate festival starts in Amsterdam today, with events from not until 16 November.
Very very dangerous.

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Best burgers in Amsterdam are at Burgermeester. (Nice play on words; burgermeester is Dutch for mayor, as in the master of the burgers or citizens)
There’s been one in de Pijp for a while, but this one opened recently on Elandsgracht. I haven’t been down there in a while and found it in a very hungry [...]

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Pizza is off

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One truly dead oven, this was outside the local Italian restaurant. I’m not sure if it was a planned improvement or the result of a really bad cooking accident.
It smelt of burnt food, not at all promising. But there are already shiny new ovens installed and there’s been no interruption to Pizza service.

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Five Fruits a Day

These delicious fruit candies/sweets are from Papabubble on Haarlemmerdijk.
They’re very pretty and have a real fruit flavour, my favourite in terms of flavour is the passionfruit but in terms of visual appeal I couldn’t choose.
You can see a movie clip of candy making (taken in the NY store) here, but if you go to the [...]

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Jummy x 15

Just came back from dinner at 15
I’ve wanted to go for ages, I’m not a Jamie fan by any means but this is such a great concept I really wanted to try it.
The decor and atmosphere are pretty good – although I think if all tables were full it would get pretty noisy as the [...]

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It’s cold and dark when I travel home, but the Gebakkraam is open on Museumplein. I stopped tonight and got an “appelbeignet” which is something like an apple doughnut.
It was delicious, warm and illicitly sugary.

But not as good as I’ve made, here’s the official recipe (translated from Dutch by me)
Ingredients:
6 sour apples
lemon juice
sugar
cinnamon
150g self rising [...]

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World’s Best Coffee

Il Tramezzino on Harlemmerstraat serves the best coffee in Amsterdam – if not the world – and it’s become a Sunday tradition to drop in for coffee and snack.The coffee is made in the sparkling machine in the background of the photo, and is somehow a softer flavour than coffee regularly served in the city.
Tramezzino [...]

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Siesta

Proof that Amsterdam apartments are too small – this couple have moved their lounge onto a small canal-side space.Or have they?
They’re right on the corner of Prinsengracht and Lauriergracht, outside the Algerian restaurant and traiteur Rainarai.

Rainarai puts out tables, chairs and carpets for customers to enjoy their mint tea and delicious snacks.

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Blackberries!

The fruity kind that is, we went berry picking at a secret location in Amsterdam yesterday morning.
We timed it between rain showers, and had to dodge not only blackberry thorns but also stinging nettle. Above us a group of blackbirds were lined up on a wall, apparently complaining that we’d found their secret supplies.
We brought [...]

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