As usual at Coffee Company, this place is nicely decorated, has an hour of free wifi use and the coffee is near to almost acceptable. However, it’s a shame my cappuccino was served in a paper cup, even though I’ve clearly stated I would not take it out. The group of chattering teens that sat [...]

Mockamore is one of those places that looks promising from the outside. There’s been given good thought to the interior design, and you could even buy your own home-use espresso machine, although I think it’s more a piece of decoration than an actual sales item; I’d rather go to a specialist store when I’m spending [...]

Lungoccino on the Ferdinand Bolstraat, very near to the famous Albert Cuyp market, is a small and cozy locality, which seems still uninfluenced by the larger coffee companies, which is a big plus. It’s awfully quiet, though, but that might be caused by the time of my visit: 4 pm, which isn’t a normal time [...]

One of the Cineville cinemas is Kriterion. Across the street from one of the largest university areas in the city, it’s mainly visited by students, as well as run by them. In the cafe you’ll find students getting together for a beer after, or in between, classes and even at ten in the evening on [...]

The Espressofabriek, which translates to ‘espresso factory’, is situated in ‘cultural hotspot’ of Amsterdam ‘Westergasfabriek’, an old industrial complex which now has been transformed to host an array of cultural activities. Well-funded cultural activities, that is. The entire area seems to have been organized by and ordered from the Amsterdam authorities. The Espressofabriek isn’t anything [...]

A few weeks ago, the day @hecubah and I went cycling through the city of Amsterdam, we purchased a Cineville card. Cineville is an organization of thirteen independent movie cinemas in Amsterdam, showing a total of at least 500 movies every week. Since that day, we have seen Hadewijch at Rialto and La Danse at [...]

I happened to be in Amsterdam on Easter Monday, which is a public holiday devoted to shopping. Throughout the country, DIY-stores are open as are all branches of a certain blue-and-yellow Swedish flat-pack furniture retailer. In Amsterdam however, all shops open up and the city centre gets raided by masses of people using their day-off [...]

The interior design with various small floors, each half a level higher, this venue allows one to find several corners to sit down quietly with someone else, while still allowing a lot of people to find a seat simultaneously. For Bagels & Beans, this place is far from the worst I’ve came across, but neither [...]

This friendly locality has been equipped by a kitschy amount of ‘coffee accessories’, such as the rusty coffee mills on every table and coffee sacks along the ceiling. The espresso is somewhat strong (which is good!), but the milk tasted flat, even though it, by the looks of it, had been steamed properly. The watery [...]

This place serving coffee and tea, which goes by the Dutch translation of just that, and has no further name, seems to be the result of the owner’s own hobby: tea, yet without daring to leave out coffee. In the adjacent shop, there’s mainly tea to be found, with some coffee beans and a few [...]