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Beyond the Rijksmuseum
Restaurant Bazar
offers one of the most memorable and fun
budget eating experiences in town. Converted from a church, it
has spacious seating and mod belly-dance music, and is filled with
young locals enjoying good, cheap Middle Eastern and North
African cuisine. Reservations are necessary if you plan to eat after
20:00 (fill up with the €8.50 daily plate, delicious €13 couscous,
or €16 three-course meal of the day; daily 11:00-24:00, Albert
Cuypstraat 182, tel. 020/675-0544,
www.bazaramsterdam.nl
).
Restaurant Bazar marks the center of the thriving Albert Cuyp
market, which is wrapped up by about 17:00, though the restaurant
is open late.
In Vondelpark
Café Vertigo
offers a fun selection of excellent soups, salads, and
sandwiches. It's a surprisingly large complex of outdoor tables, an
indoor pub, and an elegant, candlelit, back-room restaurant. The
service can be slow, but if you grab an outdoor table, you can watch
the world spin by (daily 10:00-24:00, beneath Film Museum,
Vondelpark 3, tel. 020/612-3021).
IN SOUTHEAST AmSTERdAm
Near the Dutch Resistance Museum
For locations of the following eateries, see the map on page 61.
Restaurant Plancius,
adjacent to the Dutch Resistance
Museum, is a modern and handy spot for lunch. Its good indoor
and outdoor seating make it popular with the museum staff and
broadcasters from the nearby local TV studios (creative breakfasts,
hearty fresh sandwiches, light €4-8 lunches and €16-19 dinners,
daily 10:00-22:00, Sun until 21:00, Plantage Kerklaan 61a, tel.
020/330-9469).
Café Koosje,
located halfway between the Dutch Resistance
Museum and the Dutch Theater, is a corner lunchtime pub/bar
ringed with outdoor seating. Inside, casual wooden tables and
benches huddle under chandeliers, and the hip, young waitstaff
serves beer and salads big enough for two (€5 sandwiches, €11 sal-
ads, Plantage Middenlaan 37, on the corner of Plantage Kerklaan,
tel. 020/320-0817).
Taman Sari Restaurant
is the local choice for Indonesian,
serving hearty, quality €10 dinners and
rijsttafel
dinners for €16-23
(daily 17:00-22:00, Plantage Kerklaan 32, tel. 020/623-7130).
