Restaurants & Food

Amsterdam offers a buffet of typical foods that define the city and its inhabitants. Visitors should be open to trying as many of these tastes as they can, from sweet treats and salty frites to traditional Dutch fish and imported spicy dishes.

Eating on a budget doesn't have to mean eating bad food. In Amsterdam there are plenty of places offering freshly made food at reasonable prices. All the place below offer lunch and/or dinner for about € 10 or less, per person.

Pancakes and their little cousins, poffertjes, are a popular and typically Dutch meal that tourists in Amsterdam should sample at least once.

Traditional Dutch cuisine consists of hearty comfort food to warm one's bones in the northerly climate, and here's where to find it.

Tried-and-true picks for the best restaurants in Amsterdam "Chinatown", a multicultural pastiche of East Asia, Southeast Asia and Europe.

What today is Indonesia was a Dutch colony for more than 300 years. One of the results of that is a tasty one: plenty of delicious Indonesian restaurants throughout the Netherlands. Choose from my picks of the Best Indonesian Restaurants in Amsterdam, which range from fine dining to fast to-go options.

Thanks to the 300,000 Surinamese who call the Netherlands home, Amsterdam has a wide variety of delicious Surinamese cuisine.

The Dutch are capable of far more sophisticated oven-baked treats than the standard supermarket loaves: see my top choices for the best bakeries in Amsterdam.

Unbeknownst to some, Amsterdam is a superb destination for chocolate lovers; these four chocolatiers prove it.

The Rijksmuseum doesn't offer food; in the Van Gogh Museum and the stalls on Museumplein you'll find snacks and sandwiches. If you want you'll find From a delicious sandwich shop to a locals' place with the city's best steak, these find good restaurants near the Rijksmuseum and Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

Find out where you can stay warm and dry while you relax with a drink and watch passers-by.

Here are the best restaurants serving Mexican food in Amsterdam.

While there are some decent restaurant suggestions in popular Amsterdam guidebooks, the ones on this list aren't in any of them. So choose one of these local favorites if you don't want to be a tourist who does it "by the book."

Poptasi in Amsterdam Oud Zuid (Old South) offers macaron workshops for devotees of the French confection.