A shop with swank decor, comfortable cushions and deep red walls. Located off the main tourist routes, it's often cool and quiet - though it occasionally fills up with locals....

Proprietor and chef Jean Beddington is doing what she does best: cooking up creations in which one single dish can hint at French haute cuisine, Japanese macrobiotic and...

Bojo is a fine Indo-eaterie, and one of the few places that stays open into the small hours. The price is right and the portions are large enough to glue your insides together...

No cannabis in this coffeshop, but sandwiches, cakes, drinks and international mags. You might need the latter - as service can be slow when busy. Ah well, there's always the...

This restaurant ties with Yam-Yam for the best pizza in town contest. That's thanks to a very hot wood-fuelled oven, which pumps out crusty thin crusts in the best Italian...

A marvellous discovery on an otherwise hideous touristy street by Leidseplein, De Rokerij is an Aladdin's cave. Lit by wall-mounted candles and beautiful metal lanterns, it's...

Each day brings a different fish, meat and vegetarian dish to the menu of this cheap and tasty international kitchen. Star spotters take note: whichever act is booked to play...

A poshed-up designer deli-cum-restaurant serving an arsenal of delicacies from the streamlined refrigerators that line the walls, and from their able kitchen. The perfect place...

Part of a French brasserie chain, Flo stands for bourgeois cooking at its best, especially when it comes to classics such as steak tartar and its shellfish platter. It actually...

English and Serbo-Croat are the languages of choice in this comfortable café-restaurant, perfect for post-joint munchies. Choose from sandwiches, salads, pastas and hearty...

New Catalan tapas hotspot that is in peaceful contrast to the hectic Mexican noise-fest Rose's Cantina, which it joins on to. Simple and pure.

Portraits of the real queen, Beatrix, smile onto the metaphorical queens - as well as a wide range of other diners - chowing down in this campy temple to the stinking rose....

Run by two blokes living the modern American dream: get the f*@k out of America. They did so by opening this stellar coffeeshop, which offers some of the best weed and hash on...

A bit of a lost opp, truth be told. While its modern French 'with a twist' cuisine is reasonable, it remains more about the location than anything else: a wooden church - once...