Amsterdam restaurants
 

Four of us will be traveling to Amsterdam for two short days. We will be there May 11th and 12th. We are looking for any ideas for food with a local flavor for dinners in the min to moderate price range. We are staying at the Albus Hotel. We have tickets to the Anne Frank house at 6:00 pm so dinner in this area or our hotel would be convenient. We prefer going to places where the locals would go. Also any great breakfast spots near our hotel would be great too.

We enjoyed dinner at The Pantry in Amsterdam. I'm not sure where it is in relation to your hotel but you can google to find out. Below is their website but suggest you read the reviews on Yelp.com. It is in an area with many other restaurants, walk past them and give The Pantry a try. It's very small but we enjoyed the traditional Dutch food, service was excellent with helpful hints about ordering, nice ambiance and reasonable prices.

www.thepantry.nl

Enjoy your visit to Amsterdam.

A good review site is iens.nl, but you'll need to google translate it.

2 tips for restaurant reviews in English:

You could use Tripadvisor for restaurant reviews. The area you want to look is called Jordaan:
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaur..._Province.html

And the city of amsterdam has its own lists
http://www.iamsterdam.com/en-GB/expe...-out-amsterdam
If you like organic food or french food this is a interesting list:
http://www.iamsterdam.com/en-GB/expe...r-green-eating. For instance from this list L'invite le restaurant is a 10 minute walk from your hotel.

Have a nice stay in my beautiful hometown.

We just spent a week in Amsterdam and found the food sadly lacking. We ate in residential areas, tourist areas, and the area in which the apartment where we were stayed, where there were few tourists and found little to recommend.

We went to one place that was supposed above the rest, De Reiger, and it was expensive for what you got. http://www.dereigeramsterdam.nl/#!/

Wherever we went for lunch there was the same quirky menu. Chicken satay with fries, veal croquettes on a piece of bread, and a burger.

The original post was in April for travel in May!!!

Sorry, there may be someone who is going next week. Or the week after.

If you want to eat well in Amsterdam, or in the Netherlands in general, you will have to go in the higher segment. There are many 'eetcafé type of restaurants, such as described by IMDonehere. Don't go!
We had a good meal in Amsterdam at De Compagnon, for example. http://www.decompagnon.nl

Do take the time to translate Iens.nl: its "top marks" system is easily understood.

You might have ended up at Beulings for instance, forever a favorite with its french-modern cuisine.
IMDonehere: you describe the typical fare of "eetcafe's", sadly these are all over town and cater mainly to tourists

compagnon: 8.4 on the scale of Iens: somewhere I would go too, based on that alone

http://www.iens.nl/restaurant/1081/a...m-de-compagnon

Either one should try for simply a good, local restaurant of which there are many in Amsterdam or one should eat in a restaurant that is so unique that it does not exist anywhere else.
A few suggestions for local restaurants that are good:
www.cradam.nl/EN/
www.italiaansrestaurantamsterdam.com
www.entrecote-et-les-dames.nl

A few suggestions for local Amsterdam restaurant that are unique in the world:
www.bbqbootamsterdam.net (BBQ Boat Cruise)
www.pont13.nl (restaurant on former ferry)
www.privatediningamsterdam.net (private dining in former car workshop)
www.remeiland.com (restaurant in former oil platform)