Coffee shops, bakeries with seats and the places Amsterdam lingers in over a cortado.

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Scandinavian Embassy ★ 4.8

€ CaféWork-friendlyWifi

Scandinavian Embassy on Sarphatipark has been pouring Amsterdam's Nordic third-wave coffee since 2013, the cafe that set the city's filter standard.

DrinkFilter coffee from Nordic roasters

Lot Sixty One ★ 4.7

€ CaféWork-friendlyWifi

Lot Sixty One on Kinkerstraat in Oud-West roasts its own beans in the basement, the canal-corner Amsterdam cafe that pioneered the third-wave wave.

DrinkEspresso and filter from in-house roast

White Label Coffee ★ 4.7

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White Label on Jan Evertsenstraat roasts in West, a sunny Amsterdam cafe rotating rare beans and a coffee-of-the-month, with a small terrace out front.

DrinkRotating single-origin filter

Friedhats Fuku ★ 4.6

€ CaféWork-friendlyWifi

Friedhats Fuku in Amsterdam West is the roaster's tasting room, a small cafe pouring espresso and slow-pour filter from beans the team also wholesales.

DrinkEspresso and Japanese-pour filter

Back to Black ★ 4.4

€ CaféWork-friendlyWifi

Back to Black on Weteringstraat near the Rijksmuseum is the Amsterdam cafe pouring carefully sourced coffee in a tight, white-tiled room you treat.

DrinkFilter coffee, oat-milk flat white

Café de Jaren ★ 4.0

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Café de Jaren on the Amstel runs a two-floor grand-cafe room, the Amsterdam terrace by the water students and locals occupy from morning into the evening.

DrinkEspresso and a daily newspaper

Winkel 43 ★ 4.5

€ Café

Winkel 43 on Noordermarkt serves what most Amsterdam locals nominate as the city's apple pie, a thick crumb of slow-baked apples with a foam of whipped cream.

DrinkCoffee with the city's best apple pie

Toki ★ 4.3

€ CaféWork-friendlyWifi

Toki on Binnen Dommersstraat in the Haarlemmerbuurt is the small Amsterdam cafe pouring careful pour-overs and one of the city's tighter single-origin lists.

DrinkHand-brewed pour-over

Monks Coffee Roasters ★ 4.4

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Monks on Bilderdijkstraat is the Amsterdam Oud-West cafe pouring its own espresso roast alongside a brunch menu, the room locals book for a long weekend.

DrinkEspresso flight, brunch plates

Rum Baba ★ 4.2

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Rum Baba on Pretoriusstraat in Oost is the Amsterdam cafe Antipodean expats run, a brunch room pouring strong flat whites and an updated weekend menu.

DrinkEspresso, brunch plates, cake of the day

De Koffieschenkerij ★ 4.1

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De Koffieschenkerij sits in the former sacristy of the Oude Kerk, Amsterdam's oldest building, a specialty coffee bar pouring careful espresso alongside.

DrinkSpecialty espresso and artisanal cake

Espressofabriek ★ 4.1

€ CaféWork-friendlyWifi

Espressofabriek in Westergas runs as the cafe of the in-house Amsterdam roaster, an industrial-feel room next to the gas-works park with seating.

DrinkHouse espresso roast

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