August 2007

Monthly Archive

  • Starbucks to open two more stores! -

    Today I heard from a reliable source that Starbucks will open two more locations at Schiphol Amsterdam Airport. In addition to the location that opened recently behind the customs in Terminal 1, they will now open 2 locations before the customs in Schiphol Plaza. So these locations will be publicly available to all! These […]

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  • Home made sandwich at Zuivere Koffie -

    Hidden about half the Utrechtsestraat is this place called Zuivere Koffie. I read about this place as a recommendation and it took us a little bit of searching before we found it. Zuivere Koffie is quite a cosy place, so be prepared to be close to your neighbors and to fold yourself a bit at […]

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  • Indian dinner at restaurant Shiva -

    Shiva is an Indian restaurant just of Rembrandtplein. Shiva has quite a upper class finish in the interior, but fortunately the prices are not upper class and quite normal prices for the center of Amsterdam. When we got inside we got shown a table and were given our menus straight away. Very quickly a very […]

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  • Louter Brunch -

    Today I met my friend early, so instead of having lunch, we had to have brunch! He had already picked a place he had spotted before, so we went there. Louter is a nice place on a corner in the De Clerqstraat, a little out of the center of Amsterdam. The place has large […]

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  • Dinner at Thai restaurant Chao Phraya -

    The Nieuwmarkt area of Amsterdam is kind of the central square of what now has been dubbed the China Town of Amsterdam. There is a buddhist temple there and all the street signs are also in Chinese characters. Anyway around the Nieuwmarket square itself there are a lot of bars with terraces on one side […]

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  • Coffee at Downtown -

    After the sandwich at Klavertje 4, we were looking for a place to have our coffee. Since the weather was okay, not too sunny, but still warm enough, we looked for a place outside. We found some free place on the terrace of Downtown. Here you can also have some food, there is quite an […]

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  • Canteen lunch at Lunchroom Klavertje 4 -

    Having biked past Klavertje 4 many times in the Utrechtsestraat and I always wondering about this place, so today I finally took a look here. Klavertje 4 means four leafed clover in dutch and the plant theme has been carried into the decor. Lots of green and white. And a fake plant on the table […]

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  • Indonesian dinner at Kantjil & de Tijger -

    This weekend was gay pride in Amsterdam, which means the yearly parade of gays & lesbians in boats were going through the Prinsengracht again. This year the parade was bigger than ever, taking quite a long time. But it is necessary, because intolerance here in Amsterdam seems to be on the rise. And intolerance is […]

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