Café de Jaren ★ 4.2
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.
Signature drink: Espresso and a daily newspaper
Back to Black on Weteringstraat near the Rijksmuseum is the Amsterdam cafe pouring carefully sourced coffee in a tight, white-tiled room you treat as a tasting bar.
Address: Weteringstraat 48, 1017 SP Amsterdam
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.
Signature drink: Espresso and a daily newspaper
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.
Signature drink: Coffee with the city's best apple pie
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.
Signature drink: Hand-brewed pour-over
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 morning.
Signature drink: Espresso flight, brunch plates
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.
Signature drink: Espresso, brunch plates, cake of the day
Screaming Beans on Hartenstraat in the Nine Streets has run as a small Amsterdam roaster-cafe since 2007, the bar that taught the city to drink filter without sugar.
Signature drink: Espresso from in-house roast