Are you a “foodie”? Then the Haarlemmerstraat Food fair is for you. It’s on Saturday 4 September starting at 12.00 with foodstalls lining the Haarlemmerstraat and Haarlemmerdijk. You can walk from one to the other sampling food, learning about it’s preparation, and enjoying a nice wine. If you’re still hungry at 6pm the restaurants set [...]
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Food Fair this weekend
Posted in food, tagged food, food fair, haarlemmerdijk, haarlemmerstraat on August 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Dining Al Fresco
Posted in entertainment, food, tagged herenstraat, restaurants on June 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The city streets are gradually being repared and modernised. At the moment Prinsenstraat is a sandpit, Herenstraat – a sandpit until recently is now almost finished and remains closed to traffic. So all the restaurants on the street have set out their tables outside so that you can enjoy your meal in the last of [...]
Chocolate Festival
Posted in Chocolate, food, tagged Chocolate on November 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A chocolate festival starts in Amsterdam today, with events from not until 16 November. Very very dangerous.
Best Burgers in Amsterdam
Posted in food, restaurants, tagged burgers, restaurants on October 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Pizza is off
Posted in food, street scene, tagged oven, pizza on July 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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.
Five Fruits a Day
Posted in food, tagged candy, papabubble, sweets on July 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Jummy x 15
Posted in food, tagged 15 restaurant, food, jamie oliver on February 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Appelbeignets on Winter Nights
Posted in food, seasons, tagged appelbeignet, apple beignet, apple doughnuts on December 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
World’s Best Coffee
Posted in food, tagged coffee, restaurant on September 30, 2007 | 3 Comments »
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. [...]
Siesta
Posted in food, tagged restaurant, siesta on September 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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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