46 great wine bars and restaurants in Amsterdam 2026
Amsterdam, the beautiful city full of canals and bicycles – and good wine!
In recent years, Amsterdam has grown to a major wine city with an array of interesting, fun and well-curated lists. Here is our guide to the best wine bars and restaurants in the Netherlands capital.
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![Morgan & Mees, a restaurant, hotel in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 202 334 930
Address: Tweede Hugo de Grootstraat 2-6, Amsterdam
After a serious renovation, Morgan & Mees reopened in April 2026 with more ambition than ever. The already-trendy interior now has an Italian retro-chic look with clean linen covering the tables, a beautiful sofa covering the entire wall, and beautiful artworks. This is one of Amsterdam’s more hip new places, with a guest list of young, beautiful people. Nevertheless, they deliberately have not taken everything into perfection, and so a warm and homey vibe remains. The team now consists of chef Filip Hanlo (formerly of cult restaurant Até, in The Dylan) together with Cas Kratz as the new mai...
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![Interior of Vita Lente, restaurant in Amsterdam, Netherlands]()
Phone: 06 11882699
Address: Jan Pieter Heijestraat 94A, Amsterdam
After years of experience in the wine world, at various famous and Michelin-starred establishments (including his own), sommelier Simon Witmaar started a lovely, warm, low-key wine-cocktail-snack bar in Amsterdam’s Oud-West neighbourhood. Only a few minutes walk from the famous Vondelpark, the Jan Pieter Heijestraat is one of the city’s up-and-coming foodie streets – it has a sourdough bakery, a craft beer shop, a few coffee joints, a promising restaurant and now, also, a great wine spot. What a great find! This corner location, so well decorated, is warm but refined, polished but not overwhe...
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![Interior of De Reiger restaurant, Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: 020 624 7426
Address: Nieuwe Leliestraat 34, Amsterdam
It’s impressive what the people from Restaurant Entrepot managed to do in just a few years. While there are restaurant groups that open as many places as possible, aiming to please as many people as possible with a bland concept, these guys really put soul into the places they start or reboot. After taking over the traditional neighbourhood spot Café de Druif (The Grape) they did the same to De Reiger (The Herron), turning it into a buzzing, roaring, honest café-style restaurant. Expect simple, unpretentious food that is extremely affordable and well executed. It’s undoubtedly inspired by Par...
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![Tables at Café Restaurant Sandberg restaurant, Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 612 542 909
Address: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Museumplein 10, Amsterdam
Best Short List of the Year Belgium & Netherlands 2025
As if the Entrepot team didn’t already have enough on their hands, they’ve not only opened a café (De Druif) and a neighbourhood restaurant (De Reiger), but they’ve found themselves being part of a reopened and refurbished restaurant at one of the city’s most eye-catching museums: the modern art ‘Stedelijk Museum’. From breakfast till dinner, Sandberg is the museum’s restaurant, for tourists and Amsterdam residents alike – a local, more accessible counterpart to Michelin-starred Rijks in the Rijksmuseum just 200 metres down the street. No less ambitious though. It’s incredible to see how well...
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![Interior of Veneur restaurant, Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 6 21657449
Address: Weteringschans 171, Amsterdam
It’s as if there’s no limit to how many great restaurants can open in Amsterdam! Some of the guys from Michelin-starred restaurant De Juwelier, including the chef (Michelin’s promise of the year) and former sommelier, joined forces to open their new culinary haven on the border of the traditional Canal District and youngster neighbourhood De Pijp. Seems like the perfect match. Beautifully refurbished, Veneur has the grandeur of a traditional, polished, Parisian restaurant that has been there for years. The food is of an extraordinary level and the team shows guts by putting offal on the menu...
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![Dishes at Boon & De Koot, Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 202 246 425
Address: Barentszstraat 171, Amsterdam
The sister venue to Restaurant Zoldering, and the newest Amsterdam addition from the four-strong team behind it, is Boon & de Koot, which boasts a lovely French bistro vibe. There is a row of café chairs and tables outside, and a small, higgeldy snug, packed tightly with sofas and chairs in every corner. I love eating at the bar counter, where you get the chance to chat with the staff, or at least admire their professional and quick moves in preparing the beverage orders for the other tables. The menu covers delicious nibbles, with a handful of starters and mains that could tempt anyone. On t...
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![Trees, a restaurant and wine bar in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: 020 280 1334
Address: Zeedijk 14A, Amsterdam
A stone’s throw from Amsterdam Central Station, on the crowded Zeedijk and next to the red light district, you’ll find the charming, cosy Trees (named after flamboyant local diva Trees Schneider, who passed away in 2023). Well-known Dutch actor Géza Weisz and his business partners, Amadou Dia and Janusz Gosschalk (all three true Amsterdam guys), wanted to start a restaurant feeling like a warm, traditional Amsterdam bar – and they’ve succeeded. Trees offers something different to all the touristy spots nearby, in a place you’d least expect it. Downstairs you’ll find a nice bar with snacks, s...
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![4850, a wine bar and restaurant in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Address: Camperstraat 48-50, Amsterdam
Special Jury Prize Belgium & Netherlands 2025
Occupying a double-fronted, airy and rather a minimalist unit in Amsterdam East, 4850 is a hybrid venue that operates as a coffee and wine bar – and morphs into a more full-blown restaurant in the evenings. What’s great is that you can decide to drink a glass of grower Champagne at 11 in the morning, or a single-origin pour-over coffee at 11 at night. Anything is possible. The cuisine has a decidedly Nordic slant (reflecting its Swedish owner), with clean, fresh flavours and a lot of fairly adventurous ingredients and seasonings. The interior is dominated by the glass-fronted cellar, allowing...
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![Roux Amsterdam, a restaurant in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 020 261 3572
Address: Westerstraat 132, Amsterdam
It seems that this part of Amsterdam, and particularly the Jordaan neighbourhood, is just overflowing with great wine restaurants. One of the most recent additions is Roux, on the Westerstraat. This very nicely renovated spot is just a few doors down from wine hotspot Parlotte, so in one night you can scratch both from your (spit) bucket list. Owned and managed by Roos Bierhoff and Allon Niesen (who also has a wine import business on the side), this polished establishment welcomes you with open arms. Though no cost seems to have been spared in the renovations, there is no snobbishness here –...
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![Amber Garden, a restaurant in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 020 737 0821
Address: Van Heuven Goedhartlaan 15, Amstelveen
Why not more wine lovers cycle from the city of Amsterdam to suburbian Amstelveen is a wonder to me. I must admit, I only found out about this jewel last year, but this is a place everyone should visit for sure. Chinese cuisine is something you’ll find in more parts of Western Europe, often adapted to the local (sweeter) palate, more ‘inspired by’ than a cuisine truly rooted in the mainland. At Amber Garden they want you to know what true Chinese cuisine is. In their menu, which is more of a thick booklet, they explain about tradition, differences in regional styles and about the products. T...
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![Café Wu, a restaurant in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 020 224 6196
Address: Dapperstraat 1, Amsterdam
Best Short List of the Year Belgium & Netherlands 2025
A Chinese restaurant with great wine, isn’t that every wine lover’s dream? At least it is of the many guests that eat at Café Wu, a cosy, vibrant restaurant that opened in 2024 on the border of Amsterdam’s city centre and the eastern part of the city on the Dappermarkt. Chi Ling Wu worked at the German wine paradise Scheepskameel before and she knows her stuff. Also, she brought with her a team of knowledgeable, enthusiastic colleagues. The wine list holds a nice selection of small growers mostly from France, Germany and Italy, carefully sourced, mostly organic and nicely priced. It may not...
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![Lazuur, a restaurant in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 020 636 0154
Address: Purmerplein 8, Amsterdam
When you cross the IJ river in Amsterdam and arrive in Amsterdam Noord, the wine scene becomes rather dark rather quickly. Luckily after approximately 20 minutes biking there’s a beacon of light in a spot you’d never expect. Restaurant Lazuur, the little sister of restaurant Lastage, opened in 2019 and has gotten a steady group of devoted enthusiastic guests. Enthusiasm you’ll find amongst the owners as much as amongst the guests. Here, chef Sherif Khalil cooks his refined interpretation of Portuguese food, much more refined than the Purmerplein surroundings would suggest, and also the wine...
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![212, a restaurant in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 20 334 8685
Address: Amstel 212, Amsterdam
Restaurant 212, located down at the Amstel River opposite the National Opera building, is a culinary hotspot in Amsterdam. After a fire and extensive renovation Richard van Oostenbrugge and Thomas Groot re-opened it in November 2022 as one of the most ambitious restaurants in the country. Both chefs (and their team) are classically trained and combine that knowledge with contemporary techniques to tune their sophisticated and refined cuisine. In a whopping two years’ time, they lifted their former restaurant from zero to 2-Michelin Stars. The style of cooking is elegant and refined, yet ext...
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![Bubbles & Wines, a wine bar in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 20 422 3318
Address: Nes 37, Amsterdam
This is a small and cosy wine and Champagne bar just around the corner from Dam Square. Here, you'll be right in the heart of historic Amsterdam, in one of the city's oldest streets. When it opened in July 2005, it was one of the first wine bars in Amsterdam, and when you enter, you can immediately feel the lively atmosphere and the love for great wines. Soft lighting, modern but not too clinical, and usually packed with wine lovers.
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![BAK, a restaurant in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 20 737 2553
Address: Van Diemenstraat 408, Amsterdam
Sustainability Prize of the Year Belgium & Netherlands, presented by Puike Wijnen 2025
One of Amsterdam’s first “bistronomy” restaurants, BAK started life as a pop-up in a squatted space in 2013 and breathed new life into the Netherlands’ then stuffy dining scene. They now co-own the warehouse space, with its wonderful wooden-beamed ceiling and views over the water at Houthavens. You’re in for a highly creative seven-course tasting menu – except at lunch or weekday nights when there’s also a cut-down option. The cooking goes all out for seasonality and provenance and concentrates on foraged ingredients, vegetables, game and wild-caught fish. Flavour combinations are adventurous...
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![Binnenvisser, a wine bar in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Address: Bilderdijkstraat 36, Amsterdam
Binnenvisser took over the site of an old “stamkroeg” (pub) in 2018 and transformed it into one of Amsterdam’s most buzzing locations. The space still has wonderful period touches such as the stained glass quarter lights and a proper room-length bar. The concept here is very much “bar” and not “wine bar”. The owners are serious natural wine fans, but there are also excellent craft beers and cocktails on offer. Food also takes centre stage for the earlier part of the evening. The five-course set menu is amazing value for money, and focuses a lot on creative treatments of vegetables – but the...
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![Brasserie van Baerle, a restaurant in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 20 679 1532
Address: Van Baerlestraat 158, Amsterdam
Brasserie van Baerle is a modern-classical restaurant with an international profile in Amsterdam Zuid (south part), close to the famous shopping area. An institution for lunch and dinner, and a true classic in Amsterdam for more than 40 years. The setting is far from old-fashioned, with a festive, buzzing atmosphere. This is a typical restaurant where everybody is welcome. The dishes are honest French cuisine as a basis, but they also flirt with the Mediterranean cuisine and is at the same time faithful to the pure Dutch products. Classic dishes, like black pudding and crépinette of veal, ar...
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![Bar du Champagne, a wine bar in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 20 737 3194
Address: Rokin 91a, Amsterdam
Sparkling Wine List of the Year Belgium & Netherlands 2025
Below one of the best and most beautiful Champagne shops you’ve seen in a long time, L'Atelier du Champagne in downtown Amsterdam, the owners also started a wonderful bistro-bar: Bar du Champagne. Guess what; they only serve champagne. Oh, and some Coteaux Champenois and Ratafia. Bar du Champagne is bound to be a success. Though surrounded by tourist traps on Amsterdam’s Rokin, it makes its own independent mark. The list of champagnes both by the glass and by the bottle is enormous, with everything from small growers to Roederer Cristal and Dom Perignon. And as if the Champagne list wasn’t...
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![Ciel Bleu, a restaurant in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 20 678 7450
Address: Ferdinand Bolstraat 333, Amsterdam
Best Medium-Sized List of the Year Belgium & Netherlands, presented by Arínzano 2025
Everything in Ciel Bleu (“blue sky”) is high: you dine in a luxurious setting on the 23rd floor of the Hotel Okura in Amsterdam South (the best restaurant view in Amsterdam, by the way). The level of the kitchen is also high, and it is not a surprise that they have gained two Michelin stars. Bring a well-filled wallet, because the prices are not exactly low either, but then you'll also get a truly unforgettable evening with impeccable service, but without stiffness; loose and friendly, Amsterdam-style. The parade of dishes is a feast both for the eyes and the tongue. For the foodies: if...
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![Café Parlotte, a restaurant in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 6 25305030
Address: Westerstraat 182, Amsterdam
Talk about having guts... Having worked at a vast array of restaurants, owner Margot Los opened Café Parlotte with her business partners Marjolein Peltzer and Maarten Pinxteren at the height of the 2020 Covid crisis. To no surprise, the café/restaurant has been an immediate success from the start. The flamboyant Margot has surrounded herself with a team of enthusiastic young waiters, most of them with significant wine experience. Pinxteren cooks in a classic bistro-style with comfortable French dishes. His sauces are to die for, and when you ask him about it, he will give you an hour-long le...
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![Choux, a restaurant in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 20 210 3090
Address: De Ruijterkade 128, Amsterdam
Choux had its gestation in two hugely successful pop-up restaurants before the team settled on its current location in a spacious, airy converted warehouse looking out onto the Ij waterfront. It’s been one of the pioneers in bistronomy-style cooking – serious cuisine that nonetheless breaks the formal, fine-dining mould, and in natural wine. The menu invites you to choose a number of courses, all cryptically identified only by their main ingredient. When the dishes arrive at the table, they’re often beautiful in their conception and appearance. There’s a definite Nordic slant in the use of f...
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![Cafe de Klepel, a restaurant in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 20 623 8244
Address: Prinsenstraat 22, Amsterdam
Right in the middle of the picture-perfect Jordaan district, Cafe de Klepel defines the Dutch concept of “gezelligheid” (cosiness, to translate approximately) with its welcoming, intimate interior. You have to reserve well ahead to score one of the precious tables, but there’s also a prominent bar with seating for couples or latecomers in search of a glass or two of the good stuff. Klepel is really all about the wine – the food is classic French bistro fare, well-executed but designed not to take centre-stage. The cheese selection is one of Amsterdam’s best. The staff here can recite lists of...
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![De Mark, a restaurant in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 020 218 4463
Address: Durgerdammerdijk 73, Amsterdam
What do you get when two wine lovers/enthusiasts who also love going out for dinner, both with an extensive wine cellar, build a hotel and open a restaurant just outside the city in one of the finest places a city mouse finds its weekly outdoorsy comfort? You get De Mark, a perfectionistic hotel, 12 minutes by taxi outside Amsterdam in the middle of nature and the lovely tiny village of Durgerdam. The restaurant is amazing, and the wine list is even better. Anyone who needs their weekly dose of relaxation from the city must have a regular dinner at De Mark, the hotel’s restaurant. Refined, r...
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![Flore, a restaurant in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 020 730 3398
Address: Nieuwe Doelenstraat 2-14, Amsterdam
Sparkling Wine List of the Year Belgium & Netherlands 2025
The location previously known as Bord’Eau has been completely reimagined by head chef Bas van Kranen. Flore is based in the Hotel de L’Europe, and the interior feels spacious and clubby – albeit quite old-school. Reserve one of the tables by the windows and you’ll get a great view onto the Amstel. Van Kranen’s cooking is based entirely around vegetables and wild-caught local seafood, with no meat or dairy products whatsoever. So whether you choose the entirely plant-based tasting menu or the “Ocean” menu, the seven courses have a lightness and delicacy to them. The cooking exudes confidence,...
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![Glou Glou, a wine bar in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 20 233 8642
Address: Tweede van der Helststraat 3, Amsterdam
This “bar à vins naturelles”, modelled on Parisian establishments such as Aux Des Amis or Café de la Nouvelle Mairie, kickstarted a natural wine revolution in Amsterdam when it opened in April 2015 – before then, there was absolutely nothing like it. The cosy shabby-chic interior has been packed almost constantly since opening, and the generous back-street terrace also gets mobbed in the summer months. There are, of course, no airs and graces here – basic glassware, a crumpled paper wine list and service that can sometimes struggle to keep up with the hoards that pour in. That said, it’s wond...
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![Gebr. Hartering, a restaurant in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 20 421 0699
Address: Peperstraat 10, Amsterdam
This warm, welcoming place has over time become one of the must-visit classics of the Dutch capitol. Just a short walk from the Central Station, yet in the quiet Lastage district, it is beautifully situated in a corner building bordering the canal and a lovely bridge. The atmosphere feels like a mix of an old traditional 'bruine kroeg' and a modern-day French bistro. Clean white linen tablecloths contrast harmoniously with the brown wooden walls. Under the leadership of owner Paul Hartering, a new generation chefs prepares pure, authentic uncomplicated, but refined dishes. Produce, traceabil...
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![Hotel de Goudfazant, a restaurant in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 20 636 5170
Address: Aambeeldstraat 10, Amsterdam
It’s not a hotel, and there’s no golden pheasant. But it is one of Amsterdam’s truly unique dining experiences. Housed in a vast warehouse (partly filled with vintage cars), in a gritty industrial part of Amsterdam North, Goudfazant regularly serves 300 customers on a Saturday night. If that sounds crazy, it is – but what’s even crazier is the excellent quality of the food and the efficiency of the service, given this massive scale. The cuisine is based around French bistro classics, with a daily changing menu that can be configured as a set or a la carte. The team who run Goudfazant are unc...
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![La Fiorita, a restaurant in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 20 775 4344
Address: Tweede Tuindwarsstraat 12 H, Amsterdam
It’s almost overwhelming how many Italian restaurants you find cramped in the tiny Jordaan neighbourhood, making it all the more difficult to choose. Luckily three of them have fantastic wine lists, which makes the selection a lot easier. Perhaps the best of these three is La Fiorita in the buzzing Tweede Tuindwarsstraat. La Fiorita is owned by chef Thor Lunstroo, who made his mark in other fine Amsterdam establishments, and Benjamin Sanchez, who also owns one of Amsterdam’s best pizza places, ‘La Perla’ next door. Besides the wine list, the interior of this restaurant is also top-notch. Und...
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![Lastage, a restaurant in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 20 737 0811
Address: Tijdelijk op:, Geldersekade 29, Leidseplein 26, Amsterdam
Restaurant Lastage in the Lastage quarters near Amsterdam Central Station is your favourite living room before it is a restaurant. Warm and welcoming it is regularly host to a mishmash of wine lovers, local wealthy elite and Dutch theatre artists. With a maximum of 26 guests, it is impossible to leave this homely establishment without gaining new friends. The cooking style is honest and expressive with a strong traditional French influence. Must-try is their classic epoisses with brioche and (sorry-to-say) foie gras. Patron chef Rogier van Dam doesn't back down from his responsibilities and...
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![MOS, a restaurant in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 20 638 0866
Address: IJdok 185, Amsterdam
Restaurant MOS at Amsterdam's 'IJ' waterside is one of those restaurants where you could eat every week and never feel like it's repetitive. Though the setting is formal-chique, it is a very warm and comfortable place. The Michelin-starred food has always been good and over time seems to have improved to even higher standards. Light, refined, and at the same time unpretentious. The water view is fantastic, the service is friendly, and the wine list is great. Also very important, the value for money is superb, which is an extra reason to go back regularly. If you're looking for a more fancy n...
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![Nazka, a restaurant in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 6 13186721
Address: Van Ostadestraat 354, Amsterdam
The modern Peruvian cooking at this newish restaurant is nothing short of spectacular. It combines thrilling freshness with an elegant approach that never strays into fussiness. The wine list is one of the most eclectic I’ve seen in the Netherlands, period. Ever tried a Dutch Frühburgunder with your ceviche? Or how about a glass of Assyrtico with a divine dish of grilled mullet? The by-the-glass list is lengthy and varied, with good mid-priced options as well as some more prestigious choices. There are plenty of classics, including exciting grower Champagnes, well chosen Burgundies and Borde...
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![Oocker, a restaurant in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Address: Frederiksplein 29h, Amsterdam
Best Medium-Sized List of the Year Belgium & Netherlands, presented by Arínzano 2025
Wine enthusiasts in Amsterdam can rejoice because, in October 2022, Oocker opened a stone’s throw from the famous Rembrandt Square and Amstel River. Owned by a sommelier team (Tim Meyer Viol and Niels van der Werf) who have previously worked at different great wine restaurants in the city like De Lobby, Gebr. Hartering and Shiraz, this place is a wine place that is here to stay. The snacks and food (made by Stefano Orofino) are honest and yummy, but what else would you expect from Domenica’s former chef? The wine list is already great for a newcomer and promises to grow in the future. The li...
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![Pianeta Terra, a restaurant in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 20 626 1912
Address: Beulingstraat 7, Amsterdam
This smart and intimate two-story dining room is hidden on a back street just minutes away from the central station. It offers Italian fine dining and manages to achieve a rare combo – authenticity and innovation. The team has a strong commitment to slow food ethics and organics, and their use of as much local produce as possible leads to fascinating mash ups of seasonal Dutch ingredients reinvented into Italian dishes. It’s possible to choose a surprise tasting menu – but if you don’t like surprises (I don’t!), then the staff will reveal all.
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![Restaurant Domenica, a restaurant in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 20 774 6720
Address: Noordermarkt 7, Amsterdam
It must have been a heavy stone to carry, filling in the space that used to be one of THE classic restaurants in Amsterdam, Bordewijk, on the Noordermarkt. However, chef and owner Flavio Ghighoni Carestia do this with all regards. The light, slightly chaotic interior is difficult to define but reminds most of a friendly Italian neighbourhood bar where the villagers come for their afternoon drinks and snacks. Domenica, Sunday in Italian, is that warm place where the family with mama in the middle comes together on a Sunday afternoon to spend the entire day eating and drinking. Nice detail: it a...
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![Rijsel, a restaurant in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 20 463 2142
Address: Marcusstraat 52, Amsterdam
Rijsel is a lovely bistro with the typical cosy Dutch atmosphere in a 60’s environment. Plastered and half painted walls, natural stone, steel, with old-fashioned furniture from the sixties makes this an honest and easy-going establishment. The dishes are authentic in a style typical for the Netherlands, with a touch of Belgium. Real comfort food, no-nonsense for everyone. This is a popular bistro, always packed with people, so please book a table.
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![SAAM Restaurant, a restaurant in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 20 225 0014
Address: Amstelzijde 59, Amstelveen
Best Medium-Sized List of the Year Belgium & Netherlands, presented by Arínzano 2025
During the last days of 2022, a village located just-next-door to Amsterdam, beautifully located on the Amstel river, saw one of the year’s most promising restaurant openings. After a very long renovation of the formerly famous Klein Paardenburg restaurant, SAAM Restaurant opened. It’s a collaboration between the energetic Henk Jan Beltman, the well-known co-owner of Tony’s Chocolonely; Jasper Hermans, a passionate chef with a lengthy resumé; and Bjorn van Aalst, a well-known Dutch maître-sommelier. With the name a fun play of letters/words (“South Africa” and “AMsterdam”), the food and wine l...
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![Sinck, a wine bar and restaurant in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 6 19601556
Address: Prinsengracht 422H, Amsterdam
Opened only two weeks before the Dutch third lockdown, restaurant Sinck (named after the original Amsterdam Canal’s architect) on the famous Prinsengracht Canal is one of the biggest wine promises of 2022 and beyond. Started by top-sommelier Sabas Joosten, manager Timo van der Stad (both formerly at 3-star De Librije) and chef Sander Bierenbroodspot, it is an easy-going, comfortable, yet refined restaurant and bar in the heart of the city. Well-executed easy bistro-style food in an à la carte setting for more than reasonable prices and a winelist most starting restaurants can only dream about....
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![Scheepskameel, a restaurant in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 20 337 9680
Address: Gebouw 024A, Kattenburgerstraat 5, Amsterdam
Scheepskameel is a bright and spacious restaurant with an open kitchen. It is housed in an old building overlooking the water, on the former Navy premises in the centre of Amsterdam. Great hospitality and good produce are the core elements at Scheepskameel, and the dishes are simple and pure. I love to come here because this is an informal, no-nonsense restaurant with a relaxed atmosphere and a huge German wine selection.
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![Shiraz Jardins des Vins, a wine bar in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 20 778 6313
Address: Lijnbaansgracht 267 HS, Amsterdam
Shiraz Jardin des Vins has been voted the best wine bar in the Netherlands and the best wine bar in Amsterdam. This is a great spot to drop by for a glass of your favourite wine. There are two different Shiraz bars: one in the historical centre of Amsterdam, and one in The College Hotel in Oud Zuid district of Amsterdam. Everything is right at this wine bar: there’s the enthusiastic reception of trained sommeliers, a clear explanation of the wine list, and peace of mind to choose from the extensive wine selection. The interior is very atmospheric, with high tables interspersed with low seats...
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![Troef, a wine bar and restaurant in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 06 21700863
Address: Schollenbrugstraat 8, Amsterdam
Though there seem to be restaurants opening in Amsterdam every five minutes, few feel as mature and well-thought-through as Troef near the Amstel River and Amstel Station in the city's South-East. Perhaps you could have expected that from a few guys who know their way around the city's HORECA. Chef Raymond Plat worked for years as a sous chef at one of the finest restaurants in the city (212), as well as three-Michelin-star De Librije in Zwolle. Roderick Kunst and Willem Alberts also own the popular bar Escobar, and Niels Leijssenaar played an essential role in the Ron Blaauw group, where he m...
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![Toscanini, a restaurant in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 20 623 2813
Address: Lindengracht 75, Amsterdam
When a restaurant opens in 1985 and is still at the top of its game more than 30 years later, it must be doing something right. Toscanini aims for authentic Italian food by focusing on super-high quality ingredients. The restaurant works extensively with slow food suppliers and uses an organic butcher for all its meats. The cooking doesn’t mess with classic concepts but just executes them sympathetically. The pasta here is particularly divine. The space is a converted workshop, exuding rustic charm and showing off some wonderful period features. It’s right in the middle of the Jordann’s bust...
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![The Lobby Fizeaustraat, a hotel and restaurant in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 20 758 5275
Address: Fizeaustraat 2, Amsterdam
Hotel V & The Lobby are run by a bunch of ‘Amsterdammers’ in the 12th generation – true Amsterdam lovers. This neighbourhood restaurant has a casual atmosphere in an urban Amsterdam eclectic seventies style. Do not expect artistic, complicated dishes here but simply pure, honest food from all over the world. Don’t miss the ceviche of corvina, veal cheek with beetroot pearl barley, or oyster with cucumber granita and green apple. They also have a lovely bar just at the entrance, where you can sit down and choose from the menu and where I also like to walk in for a nice glass of wine. In the...
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![Vermeer, a restaurant in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 20 556 4885
Address: Prins Hendrikkade 59-72, Amsterdam
Just like the name suggests, Vermeer is one of Amsterdam's classics and chef Chris Naylor, who is now developing concepts for various restaurants in Europe, has been at the kitchen's helm for over a decade. A culinary classic as it may be, both the cooking and the interior/ambience/service are contemporary and one of the best the city has to offer. The restaurant vibe is a pleasant mix of warm and luxurious on the one hand, minimalist metropolitan on the other, and a touch of comfy mountain lodge living room thrown in. With a classic French upbringing, Naylor's cooking is skilled and focused...
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![Wijnbar Vindict, a wine bar in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 0204706050
Address: Docklandsweg 3, Amsterdam
By the Glass List of the Year Belgium & Netherlands, presented by Cloudy Bay 2025
Finally! A new and great wine bar/restaurant has opened in the north of Amsterdam. Surely there are already nice places to find in the north of the city, but this is the first to serve not just natural wines and has its main focus on wine, not food – even though the food is simple but nice. At 10 minutes walk from the central station ferry you find Wijnbar Vindict. Owned and run by sommelier Jan-Jaap Altenburg (@sommeljj on Instagram), his business partner Richard Dietz (who owns the city's two Vindict wine shops as well as the first Dutch wine shop BOB), Samir Doueri (also a partner in BOB an...
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![Zoldering, a restaurant in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 20 765 1212
Address: Utrechtsestraat 141H, Amsterdam
Zoldering is a wine hotspot in Amsterdam, open since 2019 and a real treat for wine lovers. It occupies a beautifully converted Amsterdam building, which makes the most of its high ceilings, space and light. Although it is foremost a restaurant, you can always drop by early or late evening for just a glass of wine by the bar. The menu is concise and often exceptional. There’s a lightness of touch to the modern European cooking, and a refreshing lack of pretension or unnecessary complexity. There are no huge tasting menus or filigree presentations – just top-class ingredients treated with re...
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![De Badcuyp, a restaurant and wine bar in Amsterdam, Netherlands.]()
Phone: +31 06 42902310
Address: Eerste Sweelinckstraat 10, Amsterdam
Translating as “a bathtub,” De Badcuyp opened in April 2024 and has fast become a great addition to Amsterdam’s food and wine scene. Located in the famous AIbert Cuyp market in line with Zoldering, Troef and De Juwelier, dishes are à la carte and are for sharing if you like (but don’t have to). De Badcuyp is wonderfully run by a young team of 20-something guys who have worked their short lives in great places such as Rijsel, Troef, two-starred Flore and Bar du Champagne, then joined forces to put their own mark on the food scene. Food is honest, no fuss and ingredient-driven and Joep really...
