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6 TOP 10 TYPES OF CAFÉ
Sip a champagne cocktail on
the canal-side terrace, or indoors
with the fashionable crowd at one of
Amsterdam’s most popular cafés.
Piles of magazines and a number
of intriguing artworks help while
away the time (see p106).
De Taart van M’n Tante
7
MAP D6 • Ferdinand Bolstraat
10 • 020 776 4600 • €
“My Aunt’s Cake” is the campest
tearoom in town and is run by An eetcafé
couture cake creators who supply 1 Bruin Café
Amsterdam’s elite, including the Snug, smoky and old-fashioned, these
mayor and the Dutch royal family. brown cafés are the perfect places for
beer and gossip.
Pacific Parc
8 2 Grand Café
Polonceaukade 23
• 020 488 7778 • €€€ Always grand in size, sometimes these
cafés are grand in style too.
In a vast industrial building on the 3 Eetcafé
grounds of a former gas works, this Eetcafé means, unsurpris ingly, “eat
café has Wi-Fi, an open fire in winter café”, and eat is exactly what you do in
and canal-side terrace in summer. one. Good cooking at a little below
restaurant prices.
4 Hip Hangouts
Some cafés flash their designer
credentials and attract a suitably
hip and trendy crowd.
5 Music Cafés
Live music or top DJs make these a
good starting point for an evening of
clubbing (see pp70–71).
6 Games Cafés
1e Klas Devotees of billiards, chess, darts or
board games will find entire cafés
1e Klas
9 given over to single pursuits.
MAP P1 • Platform 2b,
Amsterdam Centraal Station, 7 Coffee & Cake
Sometimes there’s no alcohol at all,
Stationsplein • 020 625 0131 • € just tea, coffee and more calories than
Nominated in 2015 as one of you’d care to mention.
Europe’s top station restaurants, 8 Nachtcafés
this unique venue in a 19th-century When all else is closed, these night
former first-class waiting room with cafés open their doors through the
an ornate ceiling and panelled walls wee hours, though tread carefully –
transports you back in time. some may be a little seedy.
9 Gay Cafés
Tis Fris
0 From the stylish to the sweaty,
MAP P4 • St Antoniesbreestraat
Amsterdam’s famous gay cafés
142 • 020 622 0472 • € cater to all tastes.
A few steps from the Waterlooplein 10 “Coffeeshops”
Flea Market (see p73), this light and Here, intoxicants take a different form,
spacious split-level café serves and smoking rather than drinking is
healthy quiches, salads and soups the predominant activity.
as well as alcohol.
For a key to restaurant price ranges see p84

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