This story is about neighbourhood favourites. Those excellent, sometimes unsung or overlooked heroes that bring heart and soul into the place you live. Our example is Team Kompas’s local and a de Pijp stalwart, Kingfisher Cafe.
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Café De Klos: the ultimate spare ribs experience in Amsterdam
Eat ribs and repeat. That’s the only philosophy you need when approaching one of Amsterdam’s most unique restaurants, Café de Klos.
Essential tip: the authentic Sapporo taste of Ramen SORA
Blink and you’ll miss it. But if you miss it, you’ll be missing out. Because Sapporo Ramen Sora, which opened in 2016 at the south end of Ceintuurbaan, is ready to serve you the most delicious bowls of steaming ramen from its tiny restaurant. All you need to do is find it…
MOOK pancakes: why didn’t anyone think of this before?
If you’re gonna do just one thing, get it right or risk failure. Fortunately for Mook – an American-style pancake restaurant in the west of Amsterdam – they have nothing to worry about there.
Get your ramen on at Fou Fow Van Wou
The second of Amsterdam’s much talked about ramen joint opened its doors in de Pijp and we’re glad to report that they haven’t messed with a winning recipe. So while the formula might be familiar, there’s still a few new ingredients in the mix…
World’s best chocolate cookie: Van Stapele Koekmakerij
We’re going to keep this simple and sweet, for these are the adjectives that also best describe the subject of this post, Amsterdam’s premier cookie maker, Van Stapele.
Portuguese-themed Franggo has a wholesome chicken mission
Here at Kompas, we’re firm believers that you should never eat something at a restaurant that you could easily make at home yourself. In short we’re talking to you, pasta and chicken. But after a recent trip to Franggo, a Portugese chicken shop in de Pijp, we’ve decided to scratch the latter from our banned substances list.
Luxurious Japanese furniture from the exquisite Time & Style
‘Why can’t we have nice things?’ is the question we were asking as we’d finished browsing the second floor in Amsterdam’s newest and most desirable furniture store, Time & Style.
La Boutique del Caffé Torrefazione
As La Boutique del Caffé Torrefazione opens its second location on Van Woustraat, we take a look back at its other home in de Pijp.
The Lobby, Fizeaustraat
The newest addition to the boutique hotel chain, Hotel V, opened its doors a year ago and Team Kompas took a trip to discover if its bar-restaurant offering, The Lobby, is victorious.
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