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't Blauwe Theehuis
This functionalist teahouse from 1936 is a wonderful multilevel building that serves coffee, cake and alcohol; its terrace and balcony are great for a beer on a sunny day, even in winter when the heaters are on.
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Bark
A quick hop from the Concertgebouw, this genteel, old-line place does a big pre- and post-performance business. For starters, choose from a long shellfish menu or try the blinis of smoked oilfish. For mains, we like the grilled tuna steak with bacon and balsamic sauce.
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Brasserie Harkema
This cavernous ex-tobacco factory started its career as a restaurant in fine fashion a couple of years ago. Now the hype has subsided, it's just a very good stylish brasserie, with a simple lunch menu and staples such as Caesar salad and entrecôte for dinner.
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Broodje Mokum
With several tables and outdoor seating, it's larger than your average broodjeswinkel (sandwich shop) but has a great workaday feeling that may remind you of your favourite burger or chip stand at home. Our strategy for ordering: point at what you want, and the staff will tell you how much it is.
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Buffet Van Odette
Not a buffet but a sit-down café, Odette and Yvette show how good simple cooking can taste when you start with great ingredients and a dash of creativity. Soups, sandwiches, pastas and quiches are mostly organic, and you might find smart little extras like pine nuts in your quiche. Sit by the window for one of the city's prettiest canal views.
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Café De Pijp
De Pijp, the restaurant, is a fitting emblem of De Pijp, the neighbourhood: bright, young, cheerful, colourful, reasonably priced and good-looking both outside and in. You might see skinny young things digging into enormous plates of fish paella or tempura-style shrimp.
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Café Het Molenpad
This place attracts a nice mix of artists - some of whose work adorns the walls of this gallery-café - students and tourists. Lunch is the standard sandwich-and-salad affair, but dinner dishes are more interesting, with a mix of Dutch and Mediterranean flavours.
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Café Morlang
Grab a fashion magazine, order tomato soup or tarte tatin, or choose from a rotating menu with influences from Italy to Thailand. The canalside terrace is fab in warm weather; indoors enjoy the high ceilings and gigantic portraits of staff members painted on the back wall. Friday nights it's a low-key gay hangout, so low-key that you may not realise it.
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Café Vertigo
Bonus: this is both a theatre café (at the main hall of the Filmmuseum,) and, in nice weather, a great place to linger outdoors watching the cyclists and families go by in the Vondelpark. Try the uitsmijter Vertigo (egg sandwich with bacon, mushrooms, tomato and melted cheese, around €9 ).
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Café Vlinder
This window-lined corner place in the Jordaan serves a magnificent, fresh-made breakfast (around €14 ), laden with Dutch cheese, pâté, smoked salmon, eggs, coffee and fresh juice. It's also pleasant for afternoon cake and coffee (try the cheesecake or nut tart). We love the sassy service that describes itself as 'straight-friendly'.
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Café Walem
The industrial-mod building by Gerrit Rietveld, two terraces, friendly service and a changing menu keep this place busy. There's a popular carpaccio sandwich, mains including fish and duck, a neat line of soups and salads, and coffee from Illy.
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Foodism
A hip, colourful little joint run by a fun, relaxed crew. All-day breakfasts and sandwiches like chicken, mango and salad make up the day menu, while night-time sees patrons tucking into platefuls of pasta - try the 'Kung Funghi' (with three kinds of mushrooms, parsley, walnuts and cream).
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Goodies
This once-country place in the Negen Straatjes with rustic picnic tables has gone glam with a slick makeover, a bar and even occasional DJ nights. They've joined the tapas wave, but it's still popular for creative sandwiches like grilled chicken with salad and pine nuts.
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Hein
Hein simply loves to cook, and it shows in her simple, stylish, sky-lit café - you have to walk through the kitchen to reach the dining room. Media types, doing business over brunch, comment that she has a great touch with simple dishes: croque monsieur or madame, smoked salmon and fresh fruit salads.
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Lust
Parquet floors and walls, super-mod ceiling lamps and Brazilian dance beats animate this glam café. It's a fair bet you'll spot models nibbling focaccia sandwiches, tostis , generous salads or the popular grilled chicken club with avocado.
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M Café
Drink in that amazing, panoramic view! The location, high above the Keizersgracht in the top-floor gallery of the ritzy Metz Department Store, gives new meaning to 'high tea' (around €12 ), although other dishes are nothing you can't find elsewhere (soup, salads or sandwiches).
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Nielsen
This sunny café, with its bright interior filled with fresh flowers, has a tasty set breakfast - eggs, toast, fruit, juice and coffee (around €9 ). During lunch a large variety of salads and sandwiches are served: try the BLT or gigantic chicken club sandwich.
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Pompadour
Join society ladies sipping top-notch tea and nibbling away at homemade Belgian-style chocolates and pastries at this chichi little tearoom in the Negen Straatjes. If you just want the chocolates, they're around €6 per 100g. Note: it's not open on Sundays, but a second branch is, at Kerkstraat 148.
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Winkel
This sprawling, indoor-outdoor space is great for people-watching, popular for coffees and small meals, and out-of-the-park for its tall, cakey apple pie. On market days (Mondays and Saturdays) there's almost always a queue out the door.
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