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9 of the Best Italian Restaurants in Amsterdam for Every Occasion
By Vicky Hampton Italian food in Amsterdam still hasn’t quite reached the same regional level as it has in Italy (as in, here, Italian restaurants exist. In Italy, only Roman restaurants, Florentine...
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8 of the Best Seafood Restaurants in Amsterdam
By Vicky Hampton Gone are the days when fish restaurants meant starched white tablecloths and stuffy waiters. Today’s seafood restaurants and fish cafés are catering to an altogether less formal...
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Amsterdam restaurants in lockdown: takeaway, delivery and other resources
By Vicky Hampton A question I get asked a lot is how often I go out to eat. There’s no hard and fast rule, but for dinner it’s at least twice a week. Add in a couple of lunches, a few coffee dates and...
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5 of the Best Lockdown Takeaways in Amsterdam Oost and De Pijp
By Vicky Hampton We’re ten weeks into this so-called “intelligent lockdown” here in the Netherlands now, which has given me plenty of opportunities to explore my local takeaway options. Everywhere from...
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6 of the Best Amsterdam Restaurants for Wine AND Food
By Vicky Hampton Now that we’re having to make reservations everywhere we go, the idea of starting the evening with aperitivo in a bar and then moving onto a restaurant for dinner – or starting in a...
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10 of the Best Middle Eastern Restaurants in Amsterdam
By Vicky Hampton If I were to pick one region’s cuisine to eat for the rest of my life, it would likely be the Middle East. Turkey, Egypt, Syria, Iran, Israel, Lebanon – all these countries were once...
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5 Amsterdam Food Walks for Spring 2021
By Vicky Hampton Everyone talks about the “new normal” these days, and yet in the past year that normal seems to have shifted several times over. Remember in March 2020 when we were genuinely scared to...
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Where to eat… Tacos in Amsterdam x5
By Vicky Hampton Every time I travel to the US (which, admittedly, has not been much lately) I find myself gorging on Mexican food. And that’s probably because, in the 15 years that I’ve lived in...
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Where to eat… Fried chicken in Amsterdam
By Vicky Hampton Much like my recent piece about tacos in Amsterdam, this article wouldn’t have been possible to write even just a couple of years ago. But fried chicken is having a moment in Amsterdam...
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Best Brunch in Amsterdam: 10 Top Breakfast Spots
By Vicky Hampton While the Dutch were mostly eating bread with hagelslag for breakfast until fairly recently, the last decade has seen a trend in international brunch culture. Spearheaded by the...
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French Restaurants in Amsterdam: a Best-of Guide
By Vicky Hampton When I first moved to Amsterdam as a student in 2001, French restaurants were the height of fashion. Things have moved on since then, but there’s still some good French food to be...
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Where to eat… Indian food in Amsterdam
By Vicky Hampton I only worked in London for two years, right after I graduated, but it was an education in Indian food. I was living in Brixton, just down the road from an amazing little curry house...
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Best Restaurants in Amsterdam – the Bumper 2020 and 2021 Edition!
By Vicky Hampton The Dutch horeca industry has suffered from so many lockdowns and partial lockdowns over the past two years that trying to write my annual “Best of…” or “Top 10” roundup has been...
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Hapje Hour: 12 wine bars in Amsterdam that also serve food
By Vicky Hampton My favourite moment of the day is somewhere around 6.30 pm, when work is finished, it’s not yet time for dinner, and the kitchen is filled with the familiar glug-glug-glug sound of a...
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The Rijsttafel Roundup: 12 Indonesian Restaurants in Amsterdam – Rated
By Vicky Hampton As all Amsterdammers know but many visitors don’t, Indonesian food is widely eaten in the Netherlands due to the two countries’ colonial history (too complicated to go into here, but...
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Pizza in Amsterdam: My 5 Favourite Pizzerias
By Vicky Hampton I write this article with some trepidation, since no debate is ever more heated than that surrounding pizza. Opinions abound among Italian and non-Italians alike, and at the end of the...
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10 of the Best Fine Dining Restaurants in Amsterdam
By Vicky Hampton Until about a decade ago, fine dining in Amsterdam was a little thin on the ground. There were a few stuffy, formal, French restaurants with Michelin stars, but not a lot else....
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Where to eat… Portuguese food in Amsterdam
By Vicky Hampton Portugal is one of those places that keeps calling me back… I’d visited Lisbon and the Algarve several years ago, and then I finally made it to Porto last autumn. Regular followers of...
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8 of the Best Sandwiches and Wraps in Amsterdam
By Vicky Hampton I have a love-hate relationship with sandwiches. On the one hand, there’s something incredibly satisfying about a wodge of complementary ingredients between two pieces of freshly baked...
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Best Restaurants in Amsterdam – the 2022 edition!
By Vicky Hampton Is it really true? The first December since 2019 that we’re not in lockdown? In that case, it’s time to celebrate some of my absolute favourite meals this year! Many of these Amsterdam...
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