Beyond the windmills and tulips, Amsterdam offers hungry travellers plenty of unique culinary experiences. Popular Dutch foods in Amsterdam include Bitterballen, Poffertjes and Stroopwafels!
Bitterballen are Dutch meat-based snack, made by making a very thick stew thickened with roux and beef stock and generously loaded with meat. Bitterballen are the Dutch equivalent of tapas; small, deep-fried meaty snacks that are usually eaten alongside a biertje (beer). The traditional filling is a beef or veal ragu, which is shaped into a ball and coated with coarse breadcrumbs. Café Amsterdam serves delicious Bitterballen deluxe! Café Amsterdam is housed in what used to be the engine room of one of Amsterdam's foremost pump stations. Built in 1897, it was converted into the current café-restaurant in 1996. Three pumps did have to make way for a kitchen but everything else was left intact. Café Amsterdam serves up the Full Monty!
Poffertjes are Dutch mini pancakes, (pronounced poff-er-chuss). Popular street food snack.that taste a lot more like a yeasted doughnut to an American palate. Instead of baking powder, Poffertjes are leavened with yeast which gives them a rich, complex flavor that can't be matched any other way! You’ll often find a stall roaming the markets in Albert Cuyp Market. Named after a painter from the 17th century, Albert Cuyp, it is one of the most popular street markets in Amsterdam as well as the largest and oldest. Located a stone’s throw from the Heineken Experience and a ten minute walk from the Rijksmuseum. Centrally located in the 19th-century Amsterdam neighbourhood of Museumplein.
Perhaps the best-known Dutch sweet and an absolute must-eat in Amsterdam —Stroopwafels consist of two thin waffle-like wafers with a sticky, sweet stroop, a molasses-y syrup, spread in the middle. Said to have originated in the late 18th or early 19th century in Gouda, the Netherlands, where they began life as a poor man's cookie fashioned from crumbs. The treats are typically made with a basic batter - flour, butter, milk, eggs, sugar, cinnamon - that is pressed on a waffle iron and slathered with a simple butter-and-brown-sugar-based syrup, heated to gluey consistency. What's not to love? Best stroopwafels are to be found in a historic canalside bakery Lanskroon. Locally celebrated for its big, crispy stroopwafels, which are made fresh downstairs throughout the day. It usually offers them with three different fillings: Linden honey, coffee caramel, and fig.