
The former organiser of the Amsterdam Cocktail Week and Gin Festival is organising a new spirits event in the Gashouder in October 2021: The Art of Drinks.

Beet, which means ‘bite’ in Dutch, combines a takeaway counter and sit-in restaurant, so if you’d prefer to pick up your fish supper and take it home with you then that’s fine too. This new fish & chips restaurant in the Eastern Docklands area of Amsterdam is the latest in the recent influx of Amsterdam chippies. You can choose which batter you’d like your fillet coated in (options are beer batter, pancake batter or tempura) and have it served with a choice of accompaniments including mushy peas and a helmgrass mayo that’s a bit like tartare sauce only a bit posher.ĭe Gouden Hoek, Van Limburg Stirumstraat 10A, 1051 BE Amsterdam Beet Visbar The décor combines white tiled walls reminiscent of your local chippy with some fancier touches, and a wonderful rotating menu board highlighting the daily catch. Located a stone’s throw from Westerpark, De Gouden Hoek is a relaxed fish restaurant with a nice mix of Dutch and British style fish and chips a strong focus on quality produce. For dessert there’s the old Glasgow staple: battered Mars Bar. You can even get scraps (leftover bits of batter) when the chef is feeling generous. Opened to a sigh of relief from fish & chip lovers all over Amsterdam, The Chippy serves proper battered cod, chunky chips and all the trimmings mushy peas, proper tartare sauce, curry sauce, gravy and homemade pickled eggs.

So if like me you’re crying out for a good old fish supper in Amsterdam, here are a few places you need to try right now: The Chippyīorn in early 2016 in the back of Kinkerstraat cocktail bar Scrapyard and now so successful that it’s moved to larger premises (watch this space), The Chippy is the brainchild of award winning UK chef Justin Brown. Thankfully, 2016 has been a good year so far for fish & chips in Amsterdam, with the British staple taking the city by storm mushy peas an’ all.
