The Top 100 Restaurants Near Oxalis
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Rank 1. Oxalis
Modern French
A former post office in a small Noord-Holland village, surrounded by fields of red and white cabbage, is not where you'd expect serious modern French cooking. Yet the chef, who came up at places like The Fat Duck, turns out elegant, deeply sauced plates with the kind of meticulous garnishing that suggests a very long mise en place. The room is cosy and the drive pastoral; the food is the contrast that makes the whole thing work.
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A converted village church in Andijk, its soaring interior giving a quietly theatrical backdrop to a French-leaning dinner that takes itself seriously without losing the plot. The kitchen sends out inventive small bites to open, then moves through composed plates that mix classical instinct with the odd unexpected turn. House-baked sourdough and a proper cheese course close things out like a well-punctuated sentence.
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The open kitchen faces the old harbour, so you're watching both shows at once. HAVN is a lively restaurant in Hoorn where the chef roams freely between South American and Asian kitchens, grounding everything in Dutch ingredients. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand, and the menu moves with the same restless energy as the cooking style suggests. A canal-side dinner that doesn't take itself too seriously, which is harder to pull off than it sounds.
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Rank 4. Marque
Mediterranean
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Rank 5. QuiDine
Modern French
A set menu restaurant where the number of courses is your only real decision, QuiDine sits in Hoorn with a room that feels more like a well-appointed living room than a formal dining room. The Modern French cooking pulls in global touches without making a fuss about it. The chef is young enough that the confidence reads as a pleasant surprise rather than a given. The Michelin Guide has it on their list.
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Rank 6. Red Chilli
Chinese
A dragon boat parked in the middle of the dining room sets the tone at this Asian fusion restaurant in the Noord-Holland countryside. Red lanterns and Buddha statues do the rest. The kitchen leans into local Dutch ingredients while staying close to its Asian roots, braising MRIJ beef in massaman curry, balancing spice with genuine care. The host presents each dish with the enthusiasm of someone who wants you to understand what you're eating.
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Rank 7. Merlet
French
A dining room sheathed entirely in gold leaf, with a moss wall framing the fireplace and a glass installation where sand slowly forms dunes, sets the tone before a single plate arrives. This Michelin-starred restaurant in the Noord-Holland dunes serves French cuisine with sharp acidity and quiet Asian inflections, leaning on local ingredients like Wadden Sea prawns and Texel lamb. The dune landscape outside somehow ends up on the plate.
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A 223-kilometer radius is the whole concept here: a Dutch restaurant where the sourcing boundary is so strict that even the drinks stay local. The seasonal set menu rebuilds itself around preserved and foraged ingredients each time, with fermentation jars visible from the dining room. Landscape paintings and raw natural materials complete the picture of a place that seems to be making an argument for Dutch terroir, without needing to announce it.
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A revamped carpenter's workshop on the picturesque harbour of Urk, De Boet is a seasonal restaurant where the kitchen leans hard on seafood with an Asian edge. Window seats face the water, and the terrace is the obvious move in good weather. The chef tracks the seasons closely, moving from ceviche and pan-seared fish in warmer months toward game and stews when winter arrives. Selected by the Michelin Guide.
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Rank 13. 't Stokpaardje
French
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Rank 14. Apicius
French
Art on the walls, floral arrangements throughout, and the option to sit close enough to the kitchen to watch the chefs work: Apicius is an elegant French restaurant that has held a Michelin star for over two decades without appearing to break a sweat. The cooking leans into the classics, built on careful sourcing and precise technique, with sauces that carry the kind of quiet authority that makes you stop mid-conversation.
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Rank 16. MARIO
Italian
A family-run Italian restaurant that has been around forever, tucked into the Noord-Holland countryside in Wijdevormer. The set menu leans into classic Italian flavours with a modern hand, and the wine list is serious enough to demand attention. Smart, elegant dining room, the kind where regulars probably have a preferred table. Guest rooms are available if the drive home feels like too much of an ask.
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Rank 17. Lars Amsterdam
Creative French
A terrace over Amsterdam's harbour sets the mood at this Michelin-starred French fine dining restaurant, where the chef runs classical technique through an unapologetically Asian filter. Rich sauces and studied plating are the backbone, but the flavours keep veering somewhere unexpected. The room is spacious and calm, which helps, because the food asks you to pay attention.
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A pontoon terrace right on the canal's edge is the reason to time your visit for a warm evening at this charming restaurant in the tiny village of Jisp. The menu mixes timeless French classics with Asian-inflected dishes, and the owner circulates with wine suggestions that tend to complicate an already difficult decision between the set menu and the carte. Rooms upstairs exist for anyone who lets the Madeira sauce talk them into a second bottle.
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Rank 20. MOS
French
Perched at the very tip of the IJdok, this Michelin-starred French restaurant has luxury yachts drifting past the window as a matter of routine. The velvet interior runs soft pastels and ambient lighting, though the terrace is the obvious target on a clear evening. The chef pushes unusual combinations without losing the thread of a dish, and the sommelier matches it all with evident conviction.
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A dike-village restaurant on the edge of Amsterdam where you're quietly encouraged to ditch your car and walk in, letting the setting do its work before you've ordered anything. Inside, the old building wears its age naturally, and the terrace looks straight out across the water. The kitchen builds each plate around three ingredients, often passed through wood fire. Cosy, unhurried, and the wine list rewards lingering.
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Rank 22. Choux
Vegetarian
A Michelin-starred tasting menu restaurant in a converted warehouse on the waterfront, where vegetables and fruit carry about ninety percent of the menu, with game and shellfish filling the rest. The chef frames it as cooking by season rather than by protein, and the plates show it: spring becomes a single bowl, winter a slow-roasted root. Organic and natural wines throughout, and the industrial-vintage room hums like somewhere locals found before the guides did.
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Dinner at this two-Michelin-star fine dining room inside De L'Europe begins in the kitchen, where the team walks you through the ingredients before you even sit down. Dairy has no place here; the chef's plant-forward, biodynamic sourcing shapes a clean, Japanese-inflected style that shifts with the seasons, coastal in summer, game-leaning in winter. The kind of place where 25 vegetables in one dish somehow reads as restraint, not chaos.
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A two-Michelin-starred restaurant inside a canal house in central Amsterdam, where the open kitchen puts the chefs on stage and the guests in the front row. Richard van Oostenbrugge and Thomas Groot cook precise, playful food that pulls classical technique in unexpected directions, with sauces that draw audible attention. The room is intimate without being hushed, the service warm without being deferential, and the cheese board earns its own moment.
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Rank 25. Tannay
Classic French
A corner building on Realeneiland with a waterfront terrace that makes the rest of Amsterdam feel like the wrong choice. This is a classic French restaurant run by a chef whose parents own a vineyard in his hometown of Tannay, so the wine list has a personal footnote most places can't claim. The cooking leans into hare à la royale and duck in puff pastry, the kind of dishes that don't need reinventing, just someone who knows them cold.
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Gold accents and 19th-century bones inside the Krasnapolsky hotel make The White Room feel like somewhere an Austrian archduchess might still expect a table. It holds a Michelin star, and the chef's cooking matches the room's ambition, pairing Dutch-grown produce with exotic spice in a tasting-menu format where the kitchen comes to you to explain what they've done. Vibrant and occasionally daring, with the confidence to pull it off.
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Rank 27. Bougainville
Modern European New American
Chandeliers, velvet, and a direct view over Dam Square set the tone at this fine dining restaurant inside Hotel TwentySeven. Tim Golsteijn holds a Michelin star and earns it by threading Thai green curry or za'atar through French technique without the seams showing. The sommelier runs a cellar that keeps pace. Dress accordingly and arrive without plans for the rest of the evening.
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Rank 28. Vinkeles
French
The dining room occupies a former bakery inside an 18th-century Catholic almshouse, and the original wood and stone make the space feel like a quiet discovery tucked behind one of the grand canals. This is classic French fine dining, two Michelin stars, anchored in premium ingredients and sauces built with serious craft. The chef trained here for years before taking the helm, and the cooking shows it: technically rigorous, personally expressive, and never flashy about either.
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Rank 29. Scheepskameel
German
The name means "ship's camel," the wooden floats that once eased vessels through shallow harbor waters, and the restaurant sits in a repurposed dockside warehouse to match. It's a big, bright, informal spot for over a hundred diners, with a fully open kitchen turning out vegetable-forward plates and the occasional shared côte de boeuf. The wine list runs entirely German, which sounds like a dare and works. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand.
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An old railway bridge over the IJ isn't the obvious spot for a creative tasting-menu restaurant, but the view makes a decent argument for itself. Chef Michael Wolf runs the kitchen like a working studio, testing ideas on diners and refining whatever sticks, so the menu shifts as the experiments evolve. Expect ambitious, international cooking with a fondness for reinvention, a turnip Wellington here, an unexpected surf and turf there. Industrial space, sophisticated food.
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Rank 31. Vermeer
French
Inside the NH Collection Amsterdam Barbizon Palace sits this intimate fine dining room with a designer polish that matches the hotel's upmarket tone. The French kitchen leans hard into local sourcing, with intricate combinations that pair delicate fish with aged smoky bacon and dashi in ways that sound odd until they don't. À la carte is available if a set menu feels like a commitment you're not ready to make.
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Rank 32. CUE
Nordic New American
A cocktail bar in the basement plays vinyl while you're still deciding whether to do the short or long tasting menu upstairs, which sets the tone nicely. CUE holds a Michelin star, and the chef builds each course from three or four elements, leaning on the grill, fermentation, and a Nordic restraint that keeps things precise without feeling clinical. The sommelier leans toward natural wines and earns the pairing fee.
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Rank 33. De Juwelier
Modern French
Dark wood paneling and the smell of something good in a hot pan greet you at this old-school French bistro on Utrechtsestraat, where the chefs wave hello from the kitchen. The team behind Restaurant 212 runs a tight à la carte with unfashionable cuts like oxtail and pike-perch treated with enough conviction to make you wonder why anyone bothers with the trendy stuff. It holds a Michelin star.
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Rank 34. Bistro de la Mer
French
The oyster bar runs the length of the room, framed by walls hung with menus from legendary French brasseries and tables set with vintage crockery. This Michelin-starred bistro on Utrechtsestraat channels a very specific Paris mood, right down to the counter seats. Fish does all the heavy lifting, handled by a team that knows when to leave a classic alone and when to nudge it somewhere unexpected. Lunch or dinner, à la carte throughout.
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Rank 35. De Silveren Spiegel
French
Two step-gabled houses from 1614 sit side by side near the center of Amsterdam, and the dining room inside feels like a set designer got carried away with Dutch Golden Age props, then forgot to leave. Open fireplace, candlelight, silver cutlery, hand-painted tiles. It's a fine dining restaurant doing refined, seasonal cooking that leans on Dutch produce with French technique. The wine list skews natural with a soft spot for French labels.
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Rank 36. Lastage
French
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Sushi being made near the door, dim sum and a barbecue further back, a wok kitchen somewhere beyond that: A-Fusion runs several Asian kitchens under one roof, and the Michelin Bib Gourmand prices mean you can actually work through the menu. Chinese, Japanese, Thai, and Korean flavours share billing, and the small-portion format on Zeedijk actively encourages ordering one of everything.
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Rank 38. Zoldering
Modern French
Three sommeliers on the floor is a commitment most neighborhood bistros don't make, and Zoldering leans into it hard. This Michelin-starred French bistro on Utrechtsestraat is lively downstairs and quieter up, with the cosy dim of a classic Amsterdam café either way. The cooking is modern French with serious sauces, and the wine program runs two separate lists, one approachable, one for the obsessives who came prepared.
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Rank 39. Kaagman & Kortekaas
French
An open kitchen sits at the center of the room, counter seats clustered around it like a dinner party that got out of hand in the best way. This is a French-leaning restaurant with a seasonal set menu that tilts toward vegetables, fish, and game, combining flavors in ways that feel bold rather than fussy. The cooking takes its cues from nature, and the wine list keeps pace with the kitchen. The Michelin Guide has it listed among its selected Amsterdam restaurants.
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Rank 40. Morris & Bella
Vegetarian
A fully plant-based restaurant in Amsterdam where the menu runs to things like pickle sorbet alongside potato salad, which tells you immediately whether you're the target audience. The room is intimate, the cooking is inventive without being smug about it, and the front-of-house pairs organic and biodynamic wines with a seriousness that matches the kitchen. For a vegan dinner that doesn't taste like a moral lecture, this one has a following.
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Rank 41. Le Moulin
French
North Sea sole pan-fried à la meunière, potato gratin with a golden crust, salmon smoked from an old family recipe: this is a classic French-Flemish restaurant that has no interest in gimmicks and shows no signs of reconsidering that position. Warm and cozy in the way that only old-school places manage without trying, it's the kind of room where the sauces are the point and the wine list is in safe hands.
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Rank 42. De Kas
International
Lunch and dinner are served inside a converted 1920s municipal greenhouse, all glass and steel and improbable height, with a garden terrace that makes you feel the meal was grown for you personally, which is more or less true. De Kas grows around 300 varieties of vegetables, herbs, and fruit on site and in the Beemster Polder; what's harvested in the morning reaches the plate by afternoon. A Michelin-starred fine dining destination with a farm-to-table ethos that predates the cliché.
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Rank 43. THE DUCHESS
Mediterranean
Stained-glass windows, antique clocks, and chandeliers that once watched over a bank's waiting room now preside over a very good dinner. The Duchess is an upscale brasserie with a Belle Époque soul, serving a broad Mediterranean menu that leans into southern France and Italy. Portions are generous and unfussy, the kind of place where beef Wellington and cacio e pepe coexist without anyone finding that strange. Weekend afternoon tea draws a dressed-up crowd.
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Rank 44. Brasserie Marie
French
The terrace hangs over the canal traffic, which is where every table negotiation at this brasserie begins and ends. Inside, the room leans into a certain South-of-France luxe, all warm and a little deliberate about it. The cooking follows that same instinct: Mediterranean in spirit, grounded in execution. Salt-baked sea bass, a generous beef tartare, lamb done two ways. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand, and earns it quietly.
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Rank 45. RIJKS®
Dutch New American
Joris Bijdendijk's Michelin-starred restaurant sits inside the Rijksmuseum, which is either the most logical or most intimidating dinner reservation in Amsterdam. The cooking leans heavily on Dutch vegetables, then layers in the spiced, colonial-era influences that have always shaped the country's pantry. Natural materials and warm light keep the room from feeling like an afterthought to the art on the walls outside.
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High ceilings and original woodwork from a converted university building frame the open kitchen at this hotel restaurant, where the chef pulls Southeast Asian flavors into something more considered than the setting might suggest. Counter seats let you watch the langoustines get glazed with katjang pedis and sambal while a curry foam appears from nowhere. The Michelin Guide has taken note.
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Rank 47. Toscanini
Italian
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Rank 48. Senses
Japanese
Potato spaghetti with autumn truffle and katsuobushi, pulled together with a maitake mushroom cream, sets the tone for what this hotel restaurant is doing: Asian-inflected cooking where vegetables do most of the interesting work. The space leans lounge-y and deliberately stylish, the chefs come out to deliver dishes themselves, and the wine list is longer and more considered than the room would have you expect.
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On the 23rd floor of the Okura Hotel, this two-Michelin-starred fine dining room gives you the Amsterdam skyline as a backdrop while the kitchen works through a quietly dazzling mix of French technique and Asian seasoning. The sauces are where the chef's focus lands, and it shows in every course. Maître d' Francesco Simonelli runs a front-of-house that is warm without being stiff, which, at this altitude, is its own kind of achievement.
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The signature celeriac dish arrives via the chef himself, smoke-kissed slices layered with celeriac cream, a runny egg, hollandaise, and black truffle shaved over the top. This Michelin-starred creative Asian-leaning restaurant on the Ceintuurbaan plays East-West flavors with real finesse, and the open kitchen at the back means the kitchen theater is part of the deal. Book ahead; the room fills with regulars who clearly never considered ordering elsewhere.
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Rank 51. Café de Klepel
French
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Rank 52. Café Parlotte
French
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Rank 53. Lazuur
Mediterranean
The port and Portuguese wine list at this cosy neighbourhood bistro in Amsterdam Noord hints at where the chef's heart is, though the kitchen roams further than that. Mediterranean flavours pick up Portuguese and global detours along the way, landing somewhere rich and occasionally playful. The kind of place locals quietly hope nobody else discovers, which is, of course, already too late.
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Rank 55. Sinck
Modern French
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Boats moving in and out of Almere's marina set the scene at this casually elegant waterfront restaurant, where the terrace makes a strong argument for arriving early. The kitchen pulls from classic technique and international flavors, turning Dutch lamb and asparagus into something more complex with vadouvan jus, smoked feta, and basil. The menu always makes room for vegetarians, which is rarer than it should be at a place this polished.
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Rank 57. Watergang
French
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Rank 58. Yamazato
Kaiseki Japanese
Staff in traditional yukata move between tables in a dining room of pale wood and quiet, the Japanese garden visible through the glass. Yamazato is a kaiseki restaurant holding a Michelin star, and the kitchen flies its ingredients in from Japan to keep the cooking as close to the source as possible. The chef's restraint is the whole point: a persimmon hollowed and stuffed, a salad that unfolds slowly. Depth over drama, every time.
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A converted farmhouse on Texel where the menu is organized around earth, air, fire, and water, which sounds like a wellness retreat but eats like a serious restaurant. The chef grows some of what he uses and pulls the rest from the Wadden Sea and trusted local farms, leaning on fermentation and cured preparations to give the dishes a lived-in depth. Nordic bones, big windows, and the island outside filling every frame.
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Rank 60. Veneur
Classic French
Wood panelling, ornate mouldings, and a terrace that could pass for a side street in Paris: this classic French restaurant on the Weteringschans wears its old-school bones well. The kitchen, built around the grill and open fire, leans into bold, unapologetic flavours, with meat doing most of the talking. The wine list offers a serious pour-by-glass selection, and the service runs warm without fuss.
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Rank 61. Rijsel
French
The long communal tables and blackboard walls are a remnant of the domestic science school this building used to be, and the vibe hasn't strayed far: it's a place where you come to learn how to eat well. Rijsel is a casual French-Belgian bistro, the kind where a croquette filled with creamy stew and a roast chicken drowning in gravy over braised cabbage qualify as a quiet education. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand.
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Luc Kusters grows much of what he serves on the grounds around this Michelin-starred Dutch restaurant in Rembrandtpark, so the garden is basically the menu. The kitchen tracks micro-seasons with the dedication of a farmer who also happens to plate beautifully, and the two tasting menus, one plant-based, one broader Dutch, pull from local producers in ways that feel quietly radical. Light cooking, serious flavor, and a room that looks like someone actually thought about it.
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Rank 63. Sea Palace
Cantonese
A floating Cantonese restaurant moored just outside Centraal Station, Sea Palace looks like a Ming dynasty palace ran aground on an Amsterdam canal and decided to stay. Pagoda rooflines, carved chinoiserie, and statues of Chinese warlords fill every corner. The family has run it forever, the Bib Gourmand is theirs, and the dim sum and Peking duck keep the regulars coming back while service robots weave between the tables.
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Rank 64. Café Caron
Bistro French
Tables packed close enough that you'll learn your neighbor's wine order at this French bistro in the Frans Halsstraat. The menu leans into Parisian classics, the wine list is all-French and chosen with care, and the room runs loud and lively the way a good bistro should. Service can tip toward harried when it fills up, which it does.
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Rank 65. Nazka
Modern Peruvian
The entrance looks like you've wandered into a wine cellar, which makes the Peruvian restaurant inside feel like a pleasant surprise. Nazka runs on pisco cocktails, ceviche, and the kitchen's fondness for layering chilli heat against Asian umami. The room is lively and the wine list pulls from well beyond South America, which suits the crowd that fills the place on a weeknight.
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Copper pans on the walls, a glass wine cabinet, and a menu that reads like a love letter to the French bistro canon. This is a proper neighborhood bistro in the Albert Cuyp, running timeless classics with generous flair and wallet-friendly prix-fixe menus to match. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Bib Gourmand, and the French wine list is curated with the same care as the food.
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Rank 67. Johannes
French
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Rank 69. Troef
Modern French
A buzzy French bistro where the bar seats fill up fast and the kitchen is worth watching from them. The menu is à la carte, the wine list gives you plenty to argue over, and the chef runs the room with a loose-limbed enthusiasm that somehow spreads to everyone in it. French classics show up with the occasional left-field twist, creative enough to be interesting without announcing themselves as such.
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Rank 70. Restaurant DenC
French
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Rank 71. Ron Gastrobar
New American
Ron Blaauw traded two Michelin stars for a gastrobar concept, which sounds like a demotion until you visit. The room is loud, colourful, and unapologetically urban, and the men's room pipes in football commentary while the women's gets jokes. The Michelin star followed anyway. The cooking is inventive without being fussy: clever combinations, good products, no ceremony about it.
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A warehouse on the IJ River waterfront, third floor, ring the bell after dark. Once you're up, the view stretches wide and the room has that pleasingly unfinished quality that Amsterdam does so well. The kitchen runs a farm-to-table menu built around local and seasonal sourcing, where a carrot gets the same attention as whatever fish came in that morning. The cooking has a confident, improvisational feel, the kind that makes a beet sauce seem inevitable.
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Rank 73. Bosq
International
Sitting on the edge of Texel's national park, this restaurant takes its name from the Spanish word for forest, which tells you something about the chef's sensibility: local island ingredients pulled through a Mediterranean and Asian lens. Robin Koenen's cooking leans on umami and smoke, and the smaller portions mean you can cover real ground. The terrace, with dunes and open landscape in every direction, earns its own trip.
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Tables pushed close together and a menu that leans hard on vegetables, this vintage bistro in Amsterdam's Haarlemmerbuurt keeps things quietly confident. The chef works with a short list of components and coaxes a lot of depth out of them, the kind of cooking that makes simplicity look like a choice. A broad European wine list rounds it out, priced the way neighborhood places used to be before neighborhoods got complicated.
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A French brasserie that runs from morning coffee through a proper dinner, with a courtyard terrace tucked behind the building that earns its keep on any decent day. The chef updates classic French cooking without dismantling it, so the room feels comfortable rather than dutiful. Old-school enough to draw regulars who sit without menus, but not so set in its ways that the kitchen looks bored.
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The canalside terrace alone explains why tables fill up fast. Serre is the all-day restaurant inside Hotel Okura, its interior stripped back to a Japanese minimalist calm that suits the international, Far East-leaning fusion menu rather well. The kitchen holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand and moves between sharing plates and a set menu with enough vegetable-forward options that non-meat-eaters won't feel like an afterthought.
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Rank 77. Mayur
Northern Indian
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Rank 78. Oriole Garden Bistro
Mediterranean
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The sommelier pours blind, letting you fumble through the glass before he explains what you're drinking, which is either maddening or the best possible game depending on your disposition. This Michelin-starred fine dining restaurant pairs a lounge-like open room with cooking that pulls seasonings from across the globe without losing focus. The sauces in particular show real technical ambition. An extensive à la carte menu keeps things unhurried.
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Rank 80. Graham's Kitchen
British
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Rank 81. Daalder
French
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Rank 82. Restaurant JA
Japanese
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Rank 84. Domenica
Italian
Flavio's modern Italian bistro sits right on the Noordermarkt, where the Jordaan's market-day energy drifts straight through the door. Seasonal dishes lean into genuine Italian generosity, the kind where octopus arrives with properly crisped skin alongside bold peppers and broccoletti. The terrace fills fast on sunny afternoons, and the bar inside is rarely quiet. The French and Italian wine list is worth lingering over.
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Named for the architect who designed the building, this American-style urban brasserie on the third floor looks straight across at the Olympic Stadium he also gave Amsterdam. Fire is the organizing principle in the kitchen: charcoal grill, traditional ovens, and a Surinamese-Hindustani snack on the same menu as veal sweetbreads. The cocktail bar draws a crowd. Chef Joris Bijdendijk holds a Michelin star.
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Rank 86. Jaspers
French
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A former office building turned French bistro, The Lobby leans into the industrial bones with warm lighting and a room that feels genuinely lived-in. The kitchen has a fondness for umami, and the bread-and-butter pudding with salted caramel ice cream lands as the kind of dessert people mention on the way out. The wine list is short but well-chosen, the service occasionally improvises.
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Rank 88. Roux
Modern New American
The name is a clue: every great sauce begins with a roux, and this elegant brasserie takes that seriously, building dishes on sauces robust enough to be the point. The cooking roams freely, with playful combinations and textures that keep things from getting too solemn. The sommelier pairs wines with the kind of enthusiasm that makes you feel the choice matters. Grab a seat at the long dining counter if you can.
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The ritual starts at a marble counter with an aperitif, then the host walks you through the kitchen before you settle into a dining room that reads like a quietly confident Scandinavian interior. The chef cut his teeth with Sergio Herman, and it shows in cooking that is seasonal and precise without being stiff. The sommelier pairs with real attentiveness rather than autopilot. A creative tasting-menu restaurant that earns its calm.
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Rank 90. Gebr. Hartering
Fusion French
A French bistro feel in a canal-side Amsterdam spot where the menu changes with whatever the market threw up that morning. The kitchen leans into fusion, so the food moves around, though the mood stays reliably loose and convivial. Tables fill fast with regulars who know to book ahead, and the chicken liver mousse with brioche and pickled cauliflower has become something of a calling card for the kitchen's style.
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Rank 91. Alba
Greek
Natural wine posters cover the walls at this creative restaurant on Wibautstraat, where the color scheme is bold enough to count as a statement. The menu leans into unexpected pairings, Greek and Dutch sensibilities quietly colliding on the plate. A spacious terrace out front draws the Oost crowd when the weather cooperates. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Bib Gourmand, which tracks for a place that pulls off ambitious cooking without the stiff-backed room to match.
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Rank 92. Sazanka
Teppanyaki Japanese
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Rank 93. Fa. Pekelhaaring
Italian
The corner building in De Pijp has been many locals' canteen for as long as anyone can remember, its walls covered in art and its atmosphere firmly set to low-key. It's a neighborhood restaurant running Italian-leaning food with Dutch instincts: farm-sourced ingredients, wood-fire smoke, and the kind of creative combination that doesn't bother naming its own genre. The Michelin Guide awards it a Bib Gourmand, and the regulars act like they already knew.
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Rank 94. Beulings
Cantonese-influenced French
Tucked into a quiet side street, Beulings is a small contemporary restaurant where one half of the team cooks solo in an open kitchen while the other works the room with genuine warmth and sharp wine pairings. The set menu draws on French technique and Cantonese instincts in combinations that feel considered rather than showy. Bring someone you like talking to, because the room is close and the evening moves at its own pace.
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Rank 95. Pianeta Terra
Modern Italian
A short walk from Amsterdam Centraal, Pianeta Terra is a modern Italian restaurant spread across two quietly elegant rooms where nothing feels overdone. The kitchen leans on organic ingredients from small local producers, and the housemade bread and pasta are the kind that make you slow down. The menu moves through four tasting paths, with wine pairing available. It landed at #31 on 50 Top Italy's Best Italian Restaurants in the World list.
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Rank 96. Gitane
Mediterranean
Round windows and a pavement terrace anchor this all-day Mediterranean casual in Amsterdam's Oud-West, where the Zen interior carries a lingering 1970s warmth. The cooking runs in the spirit of Yotam Ottolenghi: vegetable-forward, boldly spiced, generous with texture. Meat eaters and vegans both find plenty to work with, and the prices stay genuinely modest. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand, which tracks.
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Rank 98. Eeuwen
Modern French
The dining room of a converted courthouse, set inside the Rosewood hotel, where Dutch artworks hang against walls that were clearly designed to impress someone in robes. Eeuwen is a contemporary French restaurant that leans into Dutch produce, pairing it with the occasional sharp, exotic seasoning that keeps things from getting too stately. The courtyard terrace, when the Amsterdam weather cooperates, is the kind of thing you'd photograph before you eat.
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Rank 99. Café Maurits
French
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Rank 100. Mont Blanc
Savoyard French
Cowbells in the bathroom set the tone early at this Savoyard dining room in De Pijp, where the chef runs a cosy, chalet-inflected operation with his wife that goes considerably deeper than fondue. The cooking pulls from the Alps but bends toward the creative, with aged fish, miso, and a cheese trolley that genuinely earns the table real estate it demands. The wine list has a few pleasant surprises tucked in, too.