Wilde Zwijnen is a modern dutch restaurant in Plantage Oost, Amsterdam.
Editorially verified May 20, 2026 by Elliot Marsh, TableJourney editor. Source.
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De Kas grows its own vegetables in a 1926 municipal greenhouse in Frankendael Park and runs a daily-changing menu out the kitchen built inside the glasshouse.
OrderThere is no choice: the day's tasting menu, whatever has come in from the garden.
TipLunch is the value play. Trams 9 and 14 stop nearby; cycling is the local move.
esra opened in 2024 on the Oostelijke Eilanden, the Amsterdam room running modern Turkish: house manti, slow-braised lamb shoulder, a mezze table to start.
OrderThe full mezze for the table, then the lamb shoulder to share.
TipBook at least a week ahead. The terrace is the move in summer.
De Kas grows its own vegetables in a 1926 municipal greenhouse in Frankendael Park and runs a daily-changing menu out the kitchen built inside the glasshouse.
OrderThere is no choice: the day's tasting menu, whatever has come in from the garden.
TipLunch is the value play. Trams 9 and 14 stop nearby; cycling is the local move.
De Goudfazant runs a 1,200 sqm former warehouse in Amsterdam-Noord; the four-course menu changes daily, the wine list leans natural, the room is unbookable.
OrderThe full four-course menu; the kitchen plans for the room.
TipTake the free NDSM or Buiksloterweg ferry from Centraal. Booking opens online, often books a week ahead.
Warung Spang Makandra has been the De Pijp Surinamese reference since 1978: roti you assemble yourself, saoto soup, almost nothing on the menu over 15 euros.
OrderRoti kip with the dahl and a side of the bean stew.
TipWalk-in only. Order at the counter, sit upstairs. A second Spang Makandra branch in Nieuw West takes the overflow.
Moeders on Rozengracht is the room for Dutch stamppot, erwtensoep and the other home-mother dishes, the walls covered in photos of mothers customers.
OrderThe stamppot of the week with rookworst sausage and braised pork.
TipBring a photo of your mother for the wall. Reservation strongly advised.
Kafe Kontrast on Ceintuurbaan in De Pijp runs chef Ellinor Strinnholm's Swedish-Indonesian kitchen: weekend brunch smorrebrod, weekday Kontrast Experience.
OrderThe weekend smorrebrod plate or the four-course Kontrast Experience set.
TipWeekend brunch is the busy slot. Quieter on Wednesdays, kitchen on full form.
esra opened in 2024 on the Oostelijke Eilanden, the Amsterdam room running modern Turkish: house manti, slow-braised lamb shoulder, a mezze table to start.
OrderThe full mezze for the table, then the lamb shoulder to share.
TipBook at least a week ahead. The terrace is the move in summer.
