I was reading an article about food trends in Amsterdam on Friday, and it mentioned restaurants that only sell one dish: meatballs, for instance, or spaghetti, or – in this...
Last Saturday, I went to the New Food Fair on the Haarlemmerstraat – the sun was shining, I ate a lot of pork, it was all jolly nice. But this...
I’ve been having a four-star-eetcafe kind of fortnight. One course and a couple of drinks doesn’t really merit an entire review, but I didn’t want to let these casual, Dutch,...
I’ve just signed a petition to make free water in restaurants mandatory. It’s something I feel fairly strongly about. I think I can honestly say that I have no problem...
You know the rule: if you walk past an empty restaurant, there’s probably a reason it’s empty. And the opposite usually holds true, too: a packed place is generally worth...
One of the side-effects of international dating is that your English goes to the dogs. My vocabulary is currently a mixture of British and American with an occasional smattering of...
“You see, the thing is: Vicky has a dilemma here…” explained one lunch-er to another as we sat outside brand-new Spaarndammerbuurt hotspot Mensjelief; “she wants to love this place. She...
There aren’t many places in the Red-Light District that locals go to eat or drink on a regular basis. The open-mouthed tourists, the vegetal stench of the coffee shops, and...
I’ve moaned before about the lack of decent Indian restaurants in Amsterdam, and after my proper South Indian curry in London a few weeks ago, I felt certain an Amsterdam...
