A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post a new food trend: contrary to the 12-page menus that confound diners at many Asian restaurants and stuck-in-the-80s hotels, the next...
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...
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...
“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...
Foraging is the coolest thing ever. Just saying. I mean, gathering food from the wild – all natural and for free? That’s pretty damn cool. And yet, weirdly, I’d never...
