World’s best chocolate cookie: Van Stapele Koekmakerij
The world’s best chocolate cookie is an essential pilgrimage for locals and visitors
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Luxurious Japanese furniture from the exquisite Time & Style
Four floors of furniture, beautifully crafted in Japan by hand
A.P Bloem
There’s a wild romance which keeps the product feeling natural and spontaneous
De 9 Straatjes
The 9 Streets is a network of shopping lanes full of elegant character.
Concrete Matter
It feels like the kind of place that Mole from The Wind in the Willows might go to buy his whisker comb or refill his shoeshine.
Six and Sons
Stocking items you already own but showing you a version that is unequivocally just Better Than Yours.
De Hallen
De Hallen is a lot of different things to a lot of different people but fundamentally it’s a weekend under a roof.
Athenaeum Nieuwscentrum
Athenaeum Nieuwscentrum is a magazine shop in a cozy square at the inner edge of the canal belt. Adjoining its fully fledged bookseller sibling, the bijou Athenaeum is a mouthwatering proposition for anyone with a love for print and who looks for titles they haven’t seen before, or seeks the titles they long for.
Cut Throat Barber & Coffee
The evocatively named Cut Throat Barber & Coffee turns plenty of passing heads even on a street full of other ‘memorable’ retailers. It’s situated on Warmoesstraat, in Amsterdam’s molten core. Just off Dam Square at the edge of the Red Light District it’s been rapidly growing in popularity since it opened a couple of years ago. It’s barbershop equivalent of a juggernaut.
Anouk Beerents
Antique mirror restorer Anouk Beerents’ workshop and showroom definitely deserves a post on Kompas, even if it’s not actually open to the public most of the time. Situated about halfway along Prinsengracht, close to the 9 Streets, the space is one of the most inspiring we’ve found in Amsterdam.