I’ve always been a Westside kinda girl. I’ve moved from Westermarkt to Lelylaan to Oud-West to Westerpark during the course of my life in Amsterdam, and anything to the east...
Picture the scene: I arrive at my brother’s house on Christmas Eve and, like any good foodie, get to work on the family evening meal. I’m still trying to find...
On 14th January, 2006, I turned up at Heathrow airport with one suitcase, a small rucksack and a one-way ticket from London to Amsterdam. On arrival, I had no job,...
I’ve been a bit cultural lately. Having not been to the theatre for years, I went twice in the past week. The first show was a musical in Utrecht, and...
So the country’s come to a standstill because of snow. And you know what this means? People are cancelling their restaurant reservations left, right and centre! A prime opportunity to...
I’m continuing my Dutch theme for December (November was Zuurvlees, if you recall), this time with a funny shaped cabbage known as spitskool. It’s sort of conical, but in all...
Now that I have some money in the bank again, dinner and drinks after work have become rather more financially feasible – even if the recent drop in temperature has...
The Amsterdam Foodie appears not to have been much in Amsterdam lately… The last few weekends have been spent in Berlin, Leeuwarden and Eindhoven respectively, and only yesterday did I...
I’ll have lived in the Netherlands for five years in January, and I realise I’ve cooked very little Dutch food during that time. Despite being pale, freckly and red-headed, from...
