I was spoilt last weekend: I went to not one, not two, but three rather fabulous restaurants. If you’ve ever tried to write about food, you’ll know that it’s a...
As I locked up my bike round the back of the Nieuwe Kerk, down one of the alleyways tucked between the gaudy tourist shops of the Nieuwendijk and the youth...
Moustache is already on one of the coolest streets in Amsterdam, the Utrechtsestraat. And then you go in and there are low-slung jeans and shaggy beards and louche attitudes abounding,...
There’s something that feels very British about the concept of ‘popping down the local,’ although I’m sure other cultures must have the equivalent. To constitute a local, an establishment requires...
When we arrived at Everything on a Stick, we had a sneaking suspicion it used to be the ill-fated Minibar: a drinking venue whose concept involved serving yourself drinks out...
It’s a bit unfortunate that the Dutch word for sausage is the same as the English superlative for bad. Especially when the sausage I’m going to tell you about was...
Those of you who are signed up to the Dining City/SeatMe mailing list will know that fish restaurant Stork currently has a promotion running (I believe until the end of...
Back in the 80s, people used the word ‘trendy’ to describe things that were fashionable. Clothes, food, venues. Trendy is now about the un-trendiest word you could apply to anything,...
Some days you eat dinner. And that’s just it: dinner. The food is good, the service genuine, the company entertaining. But there’s nothing more to say. No angle. No concept....
