A field guide to getting lost in Amsterdam
Vegan Hemp Burgers are healthy plant based options for the horeca in Amsterdam. They’re burgers with a story, not about the benefits of a plant based diet, but about Amsterdam as the most multicultural city in the world. These 13
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Hi people, if you are vegetarian or vegan, you like healthy food and simple and cozy alternative places, then you would like eating at “De Vliegende Schotel”, which in english means “The Flying Dish” . The restaurant is run by
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Hi there, since Herb rediscovered the pleasure of a good joint some times, in this pages you will get also some tips about it. Last week I was looking for good black hash and De Tweede Kamer seems to be
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Located on the northern banks of the IJ, NDSM – Werf is an old shipyard transformed in an underground cultural center at the end of the 90’s, when a group of artists, theater people, skaters and architects, known as Kinetisch
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Are you a lonely tourist lost in Amsterdam and you don’t know where to go on a Saturday night? Fear no more, because you are probably not the only one! Saturday night, 10 PM. Location: Cafe de D’oude Herbergh, within
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Hi there, if you like LP’s records, I suggest a visit to this shop where you can find every music genre and a collection of 20 thousands vinyl records. Cheap prices and nice atmosphere, you can spent few hours listening
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Mezrab is growing, Mezrab is alive, is playing music, is telling stories, is explaining the reality through cinema, poetry, colours… life! One week ago I had the pleasure to spend half an hour with the Iranian-born Sahand. His idea is
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If you like good beers I suggest to pay a visit also to “De Bierkoning”, a beer shop behind the Dam where you can find almost 1000 thousand different beers from all around the world:”We pride ourselves in having the
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Ducks! These wonderful birds are the real citizens of this city. They are everywhere. Take your bike for a daily ride and watch them having a meeting in Vondelpark (where the usually discuss about foreign policy and coffee shops), along
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Every Monday night the cinema expert Jeffrey proposes a movie from the database of his mind at the pub ‘De Nieuwe Anita’ on Frederik Hendrikstraat 111 (Oud-West). Bar open from 19.30 hours, entree € 2,50. It is a perfect place
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I generally associate markets to worm and sunny cities: when I think about a market.. well.. only places as Marrakesh, Jerusalem, the South of Italy cross my mind and a smell of spices follows my thoughts. That’s why when I
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Shown at Overtoom 301’s cinema “Rok ďábla” (Year of the Devil, Czech Republic, 2002, 88 min.) is a comedic music documentary direct by Petr Zelenka, starring real-life Czech folk-rocker Jarek Nohavica as a fictionalized version of himself. The following musicians
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“Binnenpretje” is a dutch expression not easy to translate in other languages. It could mean something like “laughing inside” or “having an happy feeling inside”.. The Binnenpret is a social center in South-west of Amsterdam, close to the Vondelpark. Originally
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During closing time in Albert Cuypmarkt, dozens of herons come by to seek some food left overs. Foto tokyorama One of the biggest outside daily market in Amsterdam is located in De Pijp District in Amsterdam Oud-Zuid. The street and
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Squatted in 1999 by a group of artists, OT301 is now a well recognized multimedia cultural center, located in Overtoom 301. Many activities are organized throughout the week at OT301: an ‘organic cultural kitchen’, movie projections, dance, yoga and trapeze
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The Netherlands might be famous for a lot of local brewed products, but something tells me that the first thing tourists try probably isn’t beer. For a reason, Heineken tastes like bitter water and other beers haven’t made it abroad.
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They have Style! This is what Charles Bukowsky would say about Wynand Fockink after a visit at the tasting room, 10 seconds walk from Dam Square. Born in 1679, Wynand Fockink liqueur distillery is acually managed by the two eager
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Who lives in Amsterdam knows that finding a good pizza is a hard work! To prepare a good one you need: 1. experience, 2. the right ingredients, 3. the right oven, 4. love. Well, you can find all that stuff
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Waterlooplein Flea Market is one of the oldest market in Amsterdam. It has been opened in 1893 as a Jewish Market who has been closed in 1941 with the Jews persecutions. Reopened like a general bazaar after the War, during
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