8 cafés in 2 citys. Places change: check opening hours before you go.
The café of the American Hotel on Leidseplein, designed by Willem Kromhout and opened in 1902. Its Art Nouveau interior is a protected national monument.
Order: Koffie with appeltaart · Breakfast
Fewer recent sources for this one: check it's open before you go.
A brown café that has stood on this canal corner since 1642. Its stories include a secret passage to a clandestine Catholic church and a visit from Bill Clinton, who came for the apple pie.
Order: Appeltaart met slagroom · Koffie
💡 Small and popular; go mid-afternoon on a weekday.
A corner café in the Jordaan, famous across Amsterdam for its apple pie, with one of the city's sunniest terraces.
Order: Appeltaart with whipped cream · Koffie verkeerd
💡 Come on Saturday for the Noordermarkt farmers' market (Monday is the textile market).
A small coffee bar near the Rijksmuseum, serving beans from its own Amsterdam roastery and bakes from its own bakery.
Order: Flat white · A bake from their own bakery
💡 A short walk from the Rijksmuseum; a good stop before or after.
Founded in 2001, Bocca calls itself the pioneer of specialty coffee in the Netherlands. It buys directly from farmers, roasts its own coffee and runs its café and coffee school on Kerkstraat.
Order: Espresso · Filter of a single-farm coffee
Started by two friends from Sydney who learned the trade in Brooklyn, LOT61 brought Australian-style coffee to Amsterdam's Oud-West. You can see the roaster in the basement from the counter.
Order: Flat white · Batch brew
💡 Mostly standing room and a few outdoor seats.
A Rotterdam roaster that grew into a coffee hotel, with a café, guest rooms and its roastery nearby at Vijverhofstraat 70.
Order: Espresso · Filter
Fewer recent sources for this one: check it's open before you go.
A Rotterdam roaster-café ranked No. 31 in Europe on the 2026 World's 100 Best Coffee Shops list.
Order: Espresso · Filter
Fewer recent sources for this one: check it's open before you go.