This modern, classy restaurant has despite it’s high ceilings a very pleasant atmosphere. It may be a bit further away from the city centre, but Amsterdam’s new upcoming Westergas-area is definitely worth visiting nowadays.

Café Restaurant Amsterdam is situated in an old engine room. Old control panels and engines needed to make place for some parts of the restaurant but everything else is still there, for example an enormous engine.

The combination of good quality food, reasonable prices and the original setting is the most appealing factor. Service is very friendly and helpful.

The crowd is very diverse, varying from families with kids, large groups, celebs, and expats; a great atmosphere no doubt! Although, for a nice and quiet romantic diner…this may not be the place to be.

Here you probably won’t find students or tourists, but it has been a great success among locals.  In summer you can sit outside on the terrace, in winter it’s overwhelming enough to eat inside, due to the great design of the main room.

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Café Restaurant Amsterdam | Restaurants (French) | Main from € 11.00
Watertorenplein 6 | Westerpark (area map) | +31206822666
Sun - Thu 10:30 - 24:00, Fri - Sat 10:30 - 01:00

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Casual décor, with extremely good food. Nice staff, and although a little bit out of the way in the western part of Amsterdam, it´s worth the detour.

The pizza´s are great. One of my favourites is the Pizza YamYam: a thin crusted pizza, with a truffle paste and after baking decorated with fresh ingredients like rocket, tomato, Prosciuto, Artichokes, Mozzarella di Buffalo & Parmigiano.

If you start with some small appetizers, don´t forget the Melanzane, and the fennel salami. But actually all the antipasti are great. Nice part of this dinner is the casual price. So including taxi fare, it´s still a bargain for a nice evening in a Local Amsterdam Trattoria.

Details about this spot
YAM YAM | Restaurants (Italian, pizza’s) | Bottle wine € 12.50
Frederik Hendrikstraat 88-90 | Westerpark (area map) | +31206815097
Tue - Sun 18:00 - 23:30

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