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Food Fantasies
Food Fantasies catering and events company is your best friend in Amsterdam if you’re organizing or hosting a special do. Amsterdam – and beyond – is full of amazing venues, museums, and stunning locations for parties, launches and conferences and at some time or another Food Fantasies has created memorable events at all of them. From the kick-off breakfast for 2000 guests celebrating Rembrandt’s 400th birthday at the Rijksmuseum to an open-air romantic lunch on a private pier with the guests arriving by boat, Food Fantasies has experience of most kinds of events. At their own premises in the Kerkstraat, private meals for up to 36 guests can be arranged. Cooking workshops are available here, too. Private dining menus include Russian smoked salmon with Dutch shrimps and lemon mayonnaise, consommé with truffle, sirloin with shiitake soy sauce, potato puree and mixed greens, and tarte tatin with vanilla ice cream. Many other choices are available. Food Fantasies liberates you to give all your attention to your guests, then sit back and accept the praise.
Address: 176 Kerkstraat
Price range: £55 – 64 / €80-
Cuisines: Fusion
Food Fantasies catering and events company is your best friend in Amsterdam if you’re organizing or hosting a special do. Amsterdam – and beyond – is full of amazing venues, museums, and stunning locations for parties, launches and conferences and at some time or another Food Fantasies has created memorable events at all of them. From the kick-off breakfast for 2000 guests celebrating Rembrandt’s 400th birthday at the Rijksmuseum to an open-air romantic lunch on a private pier with the guests arriving by boat, Food Fantasies has experience of most kinds of events. At their own premises in the Kerkstraat, private meals for up to 36 guests can be arranged. Cooking workshops are available here, too. Private dining menus include Russian smoked salmon with Dutch shrimps and lemon mayonnaise, consommé with truffle, sirloin with shiitake soy sauce, potato puree and mixed greens, and tarte tatin with vanilla ice cream. Many other choices are available. Food Fantasies liberates you to give all your attention to your guests, then sit back and accept the praise.
Address: 176 Kerkstraat
Price range: £55 – 64 / €80-
Cuisines: Fusion
Dorrius
Dorrius restaurant in the midst of oldest Amsterdam is a blast of authentic, traditional Old Dutch and Old Dutch atmosphere. Founded in 1890, Dorrius has been feeding hungry Amsterdammers with their favourite dishes through two world wars and into the 21st century. Occupying a pair of leaning townhouses, the restaurant is done out in trad style – wood paneled walls, amber-tinted lighting, beamed ceilings, brown palette throughout – filled with polyglot tourists, bustling waiters and irresistible aromas. The starters include Zealand bouillabaisse with garlic crouton, mains include hotchpotch of endive with meatballs, and desserts feature classic Hangop of buttermilk, Dutch rusk, cinnamon, soft brown sugar and cream. A specials menu changes monthly. Groups and private dining are most welcome here, with accommodation for up to 90 guests.
Address: 5 Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal
Price range: £25-£34 / €35-â‚
Cuisines: Other
Dorrius restaurant in the midst of oldest Amsterdam is a blast of authentic, traditional Old Dutch and Old Dutch atmosphere. Founded in 1890, Dorrius has been feeding hungry Amsterdammers with their favourite dishes through two world wars and into the 21st century. Occupying a pair of leaning townhouses, the restaurant is done out in trad style – wood paneled walls, amber-tinted lighting, beamed ceilings, brown palette throughout – filled with polyglot tourists, bustling waiters and irresistible aromas. The starters include Zealand bouillabaisse with garlic crouton, mains include hotchpotch of endive with meatballs, and desserts feature classic Hangop of buttermilk, Dutch rusk, cinnamon, soft brown sugar and cream. A specials menu changes monthly. Groups and private dining are most welcome here, with accommodation for up to 90 guests.
Address: 5 Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal
Price range: £25-£34 / €35-â‚
Cuisines: Other
Supperclub Amsterdam
What? You haven’t heard of Supperclub? Well, now you have and welcome. Amsterdam’s Supperclub restaurant, club, art venue is the founding venue of a slowing expanding family of Supperclubs in other hip locations. The vibe is provocative, sexy, even borderline surreal. Enter the minimal, entirely white dining room. Take off your shoes and recline on a bed to drink, eat and enjoy the show, which could be fashion, fire-eating, nude poetry reading, experimental video, live sculpture. Nothing is out of bounds here. A masseuse circulates among the diners. Or enjoy the entirely black Chambre Obscure, or the fabulous Bar Rouge. All are unparalleled for people-watching – the clientele is hip and gorgeous and sometimes includes a Jagger or similar. A superchilled, arty atmosphere is everywhere. You can’t retreat to familiarity in the menu department, either. Order the surprise five-course menu – dishes might include mustard soup with eel, black pepper and crème fraiche, roasted guinea fowl with mousseline of cauliflower, green asparagus and candied potato, parfait of amaretto with white chocolate mousse and orange dressing. Toilets are divided into hetero and homo and they feature art installations, too.
Address: 21 Jonge Roelensteeg
Price range: £35-£44 / €50-â‚
Cuisines: World
What? You haven’t heard of Supperclub? Well, now you have and welcome. Amsterdam’s Supperclub restaurant, club, art venue is the founding venue of a slowing expanding family of Supperclubs in other hip locations. The vibe is provocative, sexy, even borderline surreal. Enter the minimal, entirely white dining room. Take off your shoes and recline on a bed to drink, eat and enjoy the show, which could be fashion, fire-eating, nude poetry reading, experimental video, live sculpture. Nothing is out of bounds here. A masseuse circulates among the diners. Or enjoy the entirely black Chambre Obscure, or the fabulous Bar Rouge. All are unparalleled for people-watching – the clientele is hip and gorgeous and sometimes includes a Jagger or similar. A superchilled, arty atmosphere is everywhere. You can’t retreat to familiarity in the menu department, either. Order the surprise five-course menu – dishes might include mustard soup with eel, black pepper and crème fraiche, roasted guinea fowl with mousseline of cauliflower, green asparagus and candied potato, parfait of amaretto with white chocolate mousse and orange dressing. Toilets are divided into hetero and homo and they feature art installations, too.
Address: 21 Jonge Roelensteeg
Price range: £35-£44 / €50-â‚
Cuisines: World
Nomads
Nomads restaurant on the west side of Amsterdam is a sensual delight. Named for the Bedouin wanderers of the Arab countries, Nomads is brought to you by the madly inspired people behind Supperclub and it really shows. As at Supperclub, it’s a see-and-be-seen venue where you take your meals reclining, in this case in sumptuously decorated rooms. Enjoy rather fabulous cocktails at the long, meandering brass bar then take off your shoes and relax in the Wast ad-dar with its lovely golden temple, resident DJ Jimmy Jazz and interactive belly dancers, or one of the six Al’ kubbah ‘chambers’ for more secluded meals, or the Bahou with its carpeted sofas. The crowd is a beautiful, stylish art, media and fashion crowd. The menu, by starry chef Ali Ballout, is traditional/modern Arab cuisine, with dishes like mezzes of khibbez, humous, intriguing watermelon with halloume and mint, falafel, kofta, kibbe, and couscous dishes, and dessert of Mediterranean fruit salad. Groups can take advantage of the various spaces, and at weekends the party grooves on until three.
Address: 133 Rozengracht
Price range: £25-£34 / €35-â‚
Cuisines: Other
Nomads restaurant on the west side of Amsterdam is a sensual delight. Named for the Bedouin wanderers of the Arab countries, Nomads is brought to you by the madly inspired people behind Supperclub and it really shows. As at Supperclub, it’s a see-and-be-seen venue where you take your meals reclining, in this case in sumptuously decorated rooms. Enjoy rather fabulous cocktails at the long, meandering brass bar then take off your shoes and relax in the Wast ad-dar with its lovely golden temple, resident DJ Jimmy Jazz and interactive belly dancers, or one of the six Al’ kubbah ‘chambers’ for more secluded meals, or the Bahou with its carpeted sofas. The crowd is a beautiful, stylish art, media and fashion crowd. The menu, by starry chef Ali Ballout, is traditional/modern Arab cuisine, with dishes like mezzes of khibbez, humous, intriguing watermelon with halloume and mint, falafel, kofta, kibbe, and couscous dishes, and dessert of Mediterranean fruit salad. Groups can take advantage of the various spaces, and at weekends the party grooves on until three.
Address: 133 Rozengracht
Price range: £25-£34 / €35-â‚
Cuisines: Other
Herrie
Herrie means ‘noise’ and there is certainly a lot of noise around Herrie restaurant in Amsterdam. Its executive chef is one Herman de Blijker, famous for his terrific cooking, his best-selling cookbooks, his enormous personality, and his tv cooking shows patterned closely on our own Gordon Ramsay’s. In fact, the chef for Herrie was chosen through a reality tv series. Oddly, his name appears almost nowhere, though you can see him cheffing away in the open kitchen. This very trendy and exclusive restaurant and bar is set on two levels. Downstairs is the seriously sexy bar, an oblong shape in black leather with mirrored ceiling and an open fire. Upstairs on the dining level,all is light, cream and golden with classic Dutch tiles in creative new interpretations, and another open fire. Tell the server what you fancy or don’t fancy and how many courses you’d like, then sit back and let yourself be beguiled by the wonderful flavours that come your way. Groups max out at ten.
Address: 30a Utrechtsestraat
Price range: £55 – 64 / €80-
Cuisines: Other
Herrie means ‘noise’ and there is certainly a lot of noise around Herrie restaurant in Amsterdam. Its executive chef is one Herman de Blijker, famous for his terrific cooking, his best-selling cookbooks, his enormous personality, and his tv cooking shows patterned closely on our own Gordon Ramsay’s. In fact, the chef for Herrie was chosen through a reality tv series. Oddly, his name appears almost nowhere, though you can see him cheffing away in the open kitchen. This very trendy and exclusive restaurant and bar is set on two levels. Downstairs is the seriously sexy bar, an oblong shape in black leather with mirrored ceiling and an open fire. Upstairs on the dining level,all is light, cream and golden with classic Dutch tiles in creative new interpretations, and another open fire. Tell the server what you fancy or don’t fancy and how many courses you’d like, then sit back and let yourself be beguiled by the wonderful flavours that come your way. Groups max out at ten.
Address: 30a Utrechtsestraat
Price range: £55 – 64 / €80-
Cuisines: Other
De Waaghals
De Waaghals restaurant lies a short stroll from the heart of Amsterdam’s museum district, in De Pijp, a bit off the tourist path. For twenty-five years it has attracted scads of devoted diners from all over for its top-notch vegetarian cuisine. The décor is smartly white and bright, drenched with sunlight, with red and wood-toned fittings. A changing array of art lines the walls, celebrating other cultures or displaying the beauty of nature and its creatures. Each month the menu features the cuisine of a different country – often related to the artwork -- alongside the Classic, vegan and children’s menus. Recent offerings included specialities of Portuguese pea, courgette and mint omelet and ‘hammered potatoes’. De Waaghals classic dishes include fresh artichoke with herb mayo, mushroom risotto with parmesan, grilled aubergine with tomato sauce, and vegan banana pie. The ingredients are as organic as is humanly possible, as is the wine and (often local) beer list. Even the coffee and loo roll are biologically sound. In summer the lovely, small garden comes into use. De Waaghals’ ambience is informal, relaxed and very, very friendly.
Address: 29 Frans Halsstraat
Price range: £24 / €34 and und
Cuisines: Other
De Waaghals restaurant lies a short stroll from the heart of Amsterdam’s museum district, in De Pijp, a bit off the tourist path. For twenty-five years it has attracted scads of devoted diners from all over for its top-notch vegetarian cuisine. The décor is smartly white and bright, drenched with sunlight, with red and wood-toned fittings. A changing array of art lines the walls, celebrating other cultures or displaying the beauty of nature and its creatures. Each month the menu features the cuisine of a different country – often related to the artwork -- alongside the Classic, vegan and children’s menus. Recent offerings included specialities of Portuguese pea, courgette and mint omelet and ‘hammered potatoes’. De Waaghals classic dishes include fresh artichoke with herb mayo, mushroom risotto with parmesan, grilled aubergine with tomato sauce, and vegan banana pie. The ingredients are as organic as is humanly possible, as is the wine and (often local) beer list. Even the coffee and loo roll are biologically sound. In summer the lovely, small garden comes into use. De Waaghals’ ambience is informal, relaxed and very, very friendly.
Address: 29 Frans Halsstraat
Price range: £24 / €34 and und
Cuisines: Other
RAIN Amsterdam
Rain bar, restaurant and club in Amsterdam’s most active café-and-nightlife neighborhood has been hot, hot, hot ever since it opened in 2005. Everything about it gets rave reviews: the menu, the bar, the club, the restaurant and the terrace, oh, and the genuine friendliness of the staff. Décor is tastefully modern with dark wood, leather seating, lilac and violet touches. The ground floor bar and Comfortable Dining Area morph into a club around eleven or so (weekend closing is 4am). The upstairs dining room is also tastefully modern. The truly inventive food is global fusion, like starter of pressing of wild duck and seasonal mushrooms with winter plum and chilli compote, crisp duck salad, foie gras lollipop and balsamic syrup, seemingly-simple main of burger becomes a Wagyu burger (birth certificate available on request) on hazelnut brioche with onion confit, sautéed foie gras, fried duck egg, hand cut chips and home made ketchup. Everything is made fresh here, from the bread to the famous ice creams. Up to 250 can take over the venue. There are three daily changing menus, 4- and 6-course tasting menus and an 8-course gourmet menu. Rain’s philosophy includes delight, refreshment and inspiration, and the hip, affluent crowd who gathers here seems to agree.
Address: 44 Rembrandtplein
Price range: £25-£34 / €35-â‚
Cuisines: World
Rain bar, restaurant and club in Amsterdam’s most active café-and-nightlife neighborhood has been hot, hot, hot ever since it opened in 2005. Everything about it gets rave reviews: the menu, the bar, the club, the restaurant and the terrace, oh, and the genuine friendliness of the staff. Décor is tastefully modern with dark wood, leather seating, lilac and violet touches. The ground floor bar and Comfortable Dining Area morph into a club around eleven or so (weekend closing is 4am). The upstairs dining room is also tastefully modern. The truly inventive food is global fusion, like starter of pressing of wild duck and seasonal mushrooms with winter plum and chilli compote, crisp duck salad, foie gras lollipop and balsamic syrup, seemingly-simple main of burger becomes a Wagyu burger (birth certificate available on request) on hazelnut brioche with onion confit, sautéed foie gras, fried duck egg, hand cut chips and home made ketchup. Everything is made fresh here, from the bread to the famous ice creams. Up to 250 can take over the venue. There are three daily changing menus, 4- and 6-course tasting menus and an 8-course gourmet menu. Rain’s philosophy includes delight, refreshment and inspiration, and the hip, affluent crowd who gathers here seems to agree.
Address: 44 Rembrandtplein
Price range: £25-£34 / €35-â‚
Cuisines: World
Palma
Palma restaurant in Amsterdam’s museum district, an easy walk from Vondelpark, is a rustic and welcoming Italo-Mediterranean restaurant. Each day, the kitchen bakes bread, makes fresh pasta and creates a trolley of beautiful desserts, or designs the weekly changing menu. The relaxed ambience perfectly suits the sun-washed cuisine. Smart wooden tables and chairs, yellow and umber walls, a smiling Madonna, slanting greenhouse roof at the back and al fresco seating outside the front come together in this outpost of the south. Dishes include starter of classic caprese, say, or more inventive carpaccio of octopus and Portobello mushrooms, main of ceviche of marinated sea bass with avocado, lime and jalapenos, or chicken piri piri. You can also combine any of the twenty assangini for your own creation, of put yourself in the chef’s capable hands for his three-course meal. Groups up to 35 are welcome.
Address: 104 Johannes Verhulststraat
Price range: £25-£34 / €35-â‚
Cuisines: Italian
Palma restaurant in Amsterdam’s museum district, an easy walk from Vondelpark, is a rustic and welcoming Italo-Mediterranean restaurant. Each day, the kitchen bakes bread, makes fresh pasta and creates a trolley of beautiful desserts, or designs the weekly changing menu. The relaxed ambience perfectly suits the sun-washed cuisine. Smart wooden tables and chairs, yellow and umber walls, a smiling Madonna, slanting greenhouse roof at the back and al fresco seating outside the front come together in this outpost of the south. Dishes include starter of classic caprese, say, or more inventive carpaccio of octopus and Portobello mushrooms, main of ceviche of marinated sea bass with avocado, lime and jalapenos, or chicken piri piri. You can also combine any of the twenty assangini for your own creation, of put yourself in the chef’s capable hands for his three-course meal. Groups up to 35 are welcome.
Address: 104 Johannes Verhulststraat
Price range: £25-£34 / €35-â‚
Cuisines: Italian
Balthazar's keuken
Balthazars Keuken restaurant in the heart of the Jordaan district is one of Amsterdam’s most special restaurants. It is a long, narrow space set in a former smithy, with scrubbed wooden floors, an open kitchen with pans and utensils hanging in plain view. The moss-coloured banquettes, unadorned wooden seating, and plain white table linens add to the ambience of simplicity and relaxation. And it’s tiny, seating just about 30 inside and a few more on the bijou terrace in fine weather. ‘Romantic’ must be Balthazar’s middle name, in spite of the plain surroundings. Owners Karen Gaasterland and Alain Parry create internationally-inflected three-course fixed-price dinners, with a menu that changes every week. They create. You enjoy. No choice about the dishes, though. The starters are tidbits meant to appeal to all. The mains are perfectly-sourced fish or meat with sides. House wine is from the Languedoc, chosen to complement the Mediterranean-inspired cuisine. Dinner only Wednesday through Friday. Groups up to ten can dine in the restaurant then, or hire the entire venue for private events during the rest of the week. Very popular, very packed.
Address: 108 Elandsgracht
Price range: £24 and under
Cuisines: Mediterranean
Balthazars Keuken restaurant in the heart of the Jordaan district is one of Amsterdam’s most special restaurants. It is a long, narrow space set in a former smithy, with scrubbed wooden floors, an open kitchen with pans and utensils hanging in plain view. The moss-coloured banquettes, unadorned wooden seating, and plain white table linens add to the ambience of simplicity and relaxation. And it’s tiny, seating just about 30 inside and a few more on the bijou terrace in fine weather. ‘Romantic’ must be Balthazar’s middle name, in spite of the plain surroundings. Owners Karen Gaasterland and Alain Parry create internationally-inflected three-course fixed-price dinners, with a menu that changes every week. They create. You enjoy. No choice about the dishes, though. The starters are tidbits meant to appeal to all. The mains are perfectly-sourced fish or meat with sides. House wine is from the Languedoc, chosen to complement the Mediterranean-inspired cuisine. Dinner only Wednesday through Friday. Groups up to ten can dine in the restaurant then, or hire the entire venue for private events during the rest of the week. Very popular, very packed.
Address: 108 Elandsgracht
Price range: £24 and under
Cuisines: Mediterranean
The Dylan
The Dylan restaurant in Amsterdam’s most fashionable and exclusive Dylan Hotel comes from the hand of international designer Anouska Hempel. Set in a seventeenth century landmark on one of Amsterdam’s most picturesque canals, The Dylan is a fine example of luxe moderne. The typical beamed ceilings are here and the fine casement windows where sunshine pours in, but the rest of the décor recalls the era when the Netherlands traded heavily in the far east. There are dark wood tables, cream-covered seating, elegant little lamps, and the exposed brick of the former bakery. The food is an inventive France-meets-North Africa creation from Executive Chef Dennis Kuipers, including starter of aspic of poached veal fillet with beurrecks of sweetbreads, grilled asparagus and summer truffle, main course of red mullet fillet a la calabraise with glazed fennel, artichoke and black olives, and dessert of cherry mousse on coconut macaroon with mascarpone sorbet and black pepper vinaigrette. Fine wines and service, of course, and the beautiful courtyard is an enticing option in fine weather. The restaurant accommodates up to 40 for private dining, and other spaces within the hotel seat up to 80.
Address: 384 Keizersgracht
Price range: £45 - 54 / €65-â
Cuisines: French
The Dylan restaurant in Amsterdam’s most fashionable and exclusive Dylan Hotel comes from the hand of international designer Anouska Hempel. Set in a seventeenth century landmark on one of Amsterdam’s most picturesque canals, The Dylan is a fine example of luxe moderne. The typical beamed ceilings are here and the fine casement windows where sunshine pours in, but the rest of the décor recalls the era when the Netherlands traded heavily in the far east. There are dark wood tables, cream-covered seating, elegant little lamps, and the exposed brick of the former bakery. The food is an inventive France-meets-North Africa creation from Executive Chef Dennis Kuipers, including starter of aspic of poached veal fillet with beurrecks of sweetbreads, grilled asparagus and summer truffle, main course of red mullet fillet a la calabraise with glazed fennel, artichoke and black olives, and dessert of cherry mousse on coconut macaroon with mascarpone sorbet and black pepper vinaigrette. Fine wines and service, of course, and the beautiful courtyard is an enticing option in fine weather. The restaurant accommodates up to 40 for private dining, and other spaces within the hotel seat up to 80.
Address: 384 Keizersgracht
Price range: £45 - 54 / €65-â
Cuisines: French
