It’s not often that I write about takeaways – probably in part because I feel kind of guilty when I order them. I mean, I’m a foodie – if I’m...
I’d never actually heard of “Belgian Baroque” until I called Belgian restaurant Lieve last week to make a reservation, and was offered three different ambiences for my dining pleasure… The...
Friday was a very exciting day in my little world of food writing. I got the first reservation on the first day of the opening of new restaurant/cocktail bar Tales...
Ever since my Deep South Road Trip last autumn, I’ve been searching for soul food in Amsterdam. Or rather, since I haven’t really found any, I’ve been cooking a fair...
I’ve heard horror stories about Bar Italia. The meat-market atmosphere of the bar on a Friday night. The attitude of the waiting staff. The wrong orders being sent back time...
For what feels like about the hundredth time (but is probably only the fourth), I tried to go to steak restaurant Loetje last Friday. Given that they’ve just opened a...
When my colleague asked me on Friday lunchtime what my plans were for the weekend, I told him I was going to Foodism. “What? Is that some kind of cult...
Try googling “Café-Restaurant Amsterdam” and all you get is – well – cafes and restaurants in Amsterdam. Like you’d expect. So why on earth you’d call your restaurant Amsterdam is...
While I’ve habitually always based my choice of after-dinner drinking establishment on which bar is closest to the restaurant I want to review, of late it’s come to be the...
