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Having an omelette at Studio 2 on the flower market
Rain, rain, rain. Today was a day with typical dutch weather, a lot of rain all day. My friend needed to go to a shop with Chinese products on the flower market, so we decided to look for a place to go there. Half way through the flower market on a corner we ran into Studio 2. Studio 2 offers all...
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Published 4 weeks ago

A coffee at Italian restaurant Mambo
On this day we were walking down the Albert Cuyp market, not really sure were to go. My friend was a little hungry, so he ordered some typically dutch herring sandwiches at a fish shop just off the Albert Cuyp. After finishing our sandwiches we walked down the street when we spotted Mambo. We had...
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Published 4 weeks ago

Expensive lunch with a view at Metz & Co
Today I met my friend in Leidseplein like most of the times, but this time he was lazy for going any place further away. So we decided to go to the restaurant on top of the Metz & Co store in the Leidsestraat. Now Metz & Co is a kind of posh place. It’s located in a beautiful building and...
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Published a month ago

Lunch on an old railway bridge, Restaurant Open
Due to the works in the Central Station area of Amsterdam for the Noord-Zuid line (the new metro line that’s being build in Amsterdam) and the reorganization of the area, there was suddenly a spare railway bridge. So some people had an original idea and used the bridge as a base for a new...
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Published 2 months ago

Old style bagels at Royal Bagels and Muffins
The plan today was to go to Peruvian restaurant Mashua. On their website they say they are open for lunch and they also have a lunch menu on it. But when my friend and me approached Mashua, the place looked suspiciously dark. And when we got closer, we saw that it was dark, nobody was inside and...
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Published 2 months ago

Burgers at the Burgermeester
Where to get the best burgers in Amsterdam? Burger restaurant Burgermeester (= master of burgers or mayor, depending on how you interpret it ) claims it is at their restaurant. So we decided to investigate. Burgermeester is located in de Pijp area of Amsterdam just off the Albert Cuyp market....
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Published 3 months ago

Genuine Greek dinner at Nostimo
Good friends of mine recently moved to the far west of Amsterdam, close to Cafe/Restaurant Amsterdam and we decided to have a dinner somewhere close to their house. First we tried Restaurant Amsterdam, but it was full with a waiting list of half an hour, as we were told by a overheated waiter. I...
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Published 3 months ago

Kitchen is the new La Ruche at De Bijenkorf
De Bijenkorf in Amsterdam is busy refurbishing some things and among those was the restaurant. It used to be called La Ruche and be located on the second floor. But now it has been renamed Kitchen and it’s located on the top floor, in the roof. Now the top floor of De Bijenkorf has always been...
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Published 3 months ago

Starbucks to open stores on dutch railway stations
Starbucks is planning to expand into Holland, starting with Amsterdam. Starbucks will open locations on all major railway stations in collaboration with the Dutch Railway Company (NS). This first location is planned to open in spring 2009 at Amsterdam Central Station! Talks are still underway...
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Published 4 months ago

Another Coffee Company in the Berenstraat
After being kindly pushed out of Koffiehuis De Hoek, we had to have a coffee some place else. So we went to the nearest Coffee Company, which was one street down the canal in the Berenstraat. The Berenstraat is one the nine streets which form a kind of shopping area in De Jordaan. All buildings...
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Published 4 months ago