{"id":130,"date":"2006-08-29T06:26:11","date_gmt":"2006-08-29T13:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=130"},"modified":"2006-08-29T06:26:11","modified_gmt":"2006-08-29T13:26:11","slug":"my-dutch-favorites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/my-dutch-favorites\/","title":{"rendered":"My Dutch favorites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an eclectic collection of my favorite spots of Amsterdam after the past 2 months of explorations:<\/p>\n<p>1. Dutch bikes (even if i barely owned one), they&#8217;re just so damn beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>2. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanesepancakeeworld.com\">Japanese Pancake World<\/a>, pancakes the true japanses way, the only restaurant in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>3. Cafe Latei  on Zeedijk 143, a very cute coffee place that sells all sorts of vintage 70s stuff from France.<\/p>\n<p>4. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.restaurantdetuin.nl\/\">&#8220;De Tuin&#8221;<\/a> in Rotterdam, lovely spot next to a lake with great oak trees around.<\/p>\n<p>5. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.restaurantsmaak.nl\">Smaak<\/a> in Rotterdam as well.<\/p>\n<p>6. <a href=\"http:\/\/ilove11.nl\/\">11<\/a> a very trendy bar\/restaurant\/club with a terrace with big beanbags overlooking Amsterdam, the view is amazing.<\/p>\n<p>7. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mbiddulph\/201769504\/\">Zandvoort<\/a> a lovely beach 30 minutes train ride away from Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<p>8. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soupenzo.nl\">Soupenzo<\/a> for the best lunch thick soups ever (try the tuscany tomato one or the roquefort and potato).<\/p>\n<p>9. Fet, the butcher on Zeedijk, has the &#8220;Broodje Zeedijk&#8221; or the best sandwich that i&#8217;ve had in a long time.<\/p>\n<p>10. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newking.nl\">New King<\/a> a chinese takeaway on Zeedijk 115. Good duck but watch out for the bones&#8230; big plates, definitely not for a light lunch.<\/p>\n<p>11. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diningcity.nl\/cafedejaren\/en\/index.html\">De Jaren<\/a> an absolutely beautiful and chic caf\u00e9-restaurant with view on the canal on Nieuwe Doelenstraat.<\/p>\n<p>12. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stedelijk.nl\"> The Stedelijk Museum<\/a>&#8216;s beautiful space and architecture. I went to see Airworld and Saskia Olde Wolbers&#8217;s The Falling Eye. They were both great and well curated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an eclectic collection of my favorite spots of Amsterdam after the past 2 months of explorations: 1. Dutch bikes (even if i barely owned one), they&#8217;re just so damn beautiful. 2. Japanese Pancake World, pancakes the true japanses way, the only restaurant in Europe. 3. Cafe Latei on Zeedijk 143, a very cute&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/my-dutch-favorites\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Dutch favorites<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-traveling","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-26","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}