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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

At the edge of Amsterdam’s city centre, this place always seems to be crowded. The espresso is being made with a lever-operated espresso machine, which always gives me the feeling they’re actually preparing your espresso, rather than simply pushing a button, even though the grinding and tamping is actually the part that makes the difference. [...]

Broodnodig is a really small coffeehouse with some ten tables. The general atmosphere is, at least when I was there, gezellig (cosy, friendly) and international. The cappuccino is served in a glass that’d usually be used as a water glass, but the taste is good nonetheless. The bean used is really powerful, but also results [...]

Considering its location inside the country’s most exclusive department store, this shop is pretentious. With a genuinely friendly smile, the waiter lived up to these expectations, but from there it’s downhill. The ‘La Ruche’-delivery service delivers the cappuccino, made by the super-automatic machine, to the table with the number corresponding to his receipt with an [...]