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Amsterdam is a culinary United Nations of cuisines boasting a huge variety of fine restaurants. A budget-friendly way to try them is while this month's cafeteria Week (23-29 August), when you can indulge in a 3-course meal at participating top restaurants for €25. But some of the best treats are straightforward affairs, like sampling artisanal cheeses or sipping beer at a cosy brown cafe. So snap up one of the cheap flights to Amsterdam currently ready and find out what all the fuss is about. Below, we've listed the best venues and ways to embrace Amsterdam like a true food and drink connoisseur:
Cheap Flights to Amsterdam Mean More Money For Eating & Drinking - A Guide to Amsterdam
1. Give Me More Gouda, Please
Those cheap flights to Amsterdam set you in the middle of Gouda and Edam country. Head to the Negen Straatjes to pick up (and sample!) slices while staring at colossal, colourful wheels at the De Kasskamer, the best cheese shop in town. But for an educational dose, take a one-hour cheese-tasting workshop at Reypenaer Tasting Room, where you can taste it all with sips of wine.
2. A Sip of Dutch Gin
Sample Dutch jenever gin at Proeflokaal Wijnand Fockinck, a distillery and tasting house set in a 17th-century city centre building. Sip malt and fruit-flavoured jenever in the wood-panelled tasting room lined with ancient bottles. You can also try less-potent concoctions like 'Bride's Tears', a spiced wine traditionally served prior to a wedding.
3. Beer & Bitterballen
An evening out in Amsterdam is often a relaxed affair of grabbing a beer at a brown cafe (Amsterdam's version of the local pub). And bitterballen are the quintessential bar snacks - potato and minced beef ragout breaded and fried, served with spicy mustard. But for bigger appetites try their larger cousins, Kroketten (croquettes) - these oblong nuggets are often served on bread and eaten like an open sandwich.
4. Food & Mattresses
It doesn't get more comfortable than dining on a bed. At the swanky Supperclub you recline on mattresses and long sofas while dining on sophisticated international fare - expect anyone from seared tuna to filet mignon. Lay back and savour it all in the trendy all-white setting while listening to Dj-spun beats. The prices are more laidback while cafeteria Week too, when Supperclub offer special discounted menus.
5. Dutch Home Cooking
For a taste of what the Dutch cook at home, head to Moeders, the Dutch word for 'mothers'. Recline on their atmospheric canalside terrace and try former stamppot, a hearty mix of veggie, mash and smoked sausage or pork.
6. Rice Table
After hopping on cheap flights to Amsterdam and sightseeing around town, you'll work up an appetite worthy of Rijsttaffel (Rice Table). Originating in the Dutch plantations of Indonesia, Rijsttaffel is a massive spread of in any place from ten to 30 tiny plates of Indonesian dishes. It's all served with rice and is a quintessential part of Amsterdam's food scene. One of the best places to try an upmarket version of this feast is at Long Pura in the Jordaan, someone else venue participating in cafeteria Week.
7. Flat as a Pancake
Squeeze onto a blue-tiled table at Pancakes! where you'll find savoury and sweet versions of the Dutch staple. Go former (mushroom or homemade strawberry jam) or more experimental (bacon, banana and chili pepper or endive, cheese and ham).
8. Chic Dining in an market Monument
Panama is a rare breed - part glamorous restaurant, part chic bar and club - all housed in a previous harbour building in the Eastern Docklands. Dine on approved international fare like stuffed saddle of lamb or oyster and sea bass risotto under high market ceilings and contemporary light fittings. Panama is also taking part in cafeteria Week.
9. Hot off the Press: Stroopwafels
It's straightforward decadence: A waffle biscuit, hot and freshly pressed, slathered in a layer of caramel-like syrup. It's topped by a second waffle, forming a round Stroopwafel. They're easy to find - just consequent the delicate aroma of crispy, sweet goodness as it wafts its way straight through markets like the multicultural Albert Cuypmarkt in De Pijp or the trendy Noordermarkt in the Jordaan, or pick one up at Lanskroon bakery in the city centre.
10. A Slice of Pie
Appeltart, that is. Dutch Apple Pie is cakey, dense and full of the soft, moist fruit. It's served at a slew of cafes around town, but the best version is at Winkel, a cafe-restaurant in the Jordaan. They dish up thick wedges of the tasty treat - be sure to order it the way the locals do, with a plump dollop of whipped cream.
From feasting on dozens of petite Indonesian tastes to discovering your favourite flavour of Dutch gin, this capital satisfies all palettes. Book cheap flights to Amsterdam to enjoy the flavours of Amsterdam and take benefit of the best culinary deal of the summer.
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