Experts' Choice Award Cafe de Jaren
What the experts agree on
Grand café institution overlooking the Amstel with soaring ceilings and three floors that draw everyone from students to tourists. Coffee's stellar, food is simple but decent—fashionable without pretension.
“This huge, high-ceilinged grand café serves simple soups and sandwiches on the ground floor, and heartier meat, fish and vegetarian dishes in the first-floor restaurant.”
– DK Eyewitness
Frommer's "It occupies a solid-looking former bank; ceilings are unusually high and flooring is multicolored tiled mosaic." Full review
Zagat "This cafe-restaurant with picturesque surroundings is fashionable without being pretentious." Full review
Rough Guide "One of the grandest of the grand cafés, overlooking the Amstel next to the university, with three floors and two terraces."
Time Out "All of Amsterdam – students, tourists, lesbigays, cinema-goers, the fashion pack – come here for lunch, coffee or something stronger all day long." Full review
Not For Tourists "Light and airy, mediocre foods but super coffee."
