Top 8 Amsterdam Restaurants 2015, Amsterdam, Netherlands

For the first time last year, I posted an (entirely subjective) round-up of the best Amsterdam restaurants of 2014. The reaction was so immense that it - umm - broke my website :-/ This year, with the redesigned website being (hopefully) rather more stable, it’s time once again to look back at a memorable year in Amsterdam’s cuisine scene. The food festivals were bigger and better than ever, and hundreds of new restaurants sprang up so quickly that I doubt I was the only one who couldn’t keep up. Oh, and I ate a bug. On camera.

The food festivals were bigger and better than ever, and hundreds of new restaurants sprang up so quickly that I doubt I was the only one who couldn’t keep up. Oh, and I ate a bug. On camera.

So, in no particular order, here are my picks for the best restaurants of 2015. Some of them opened during the year; others have been around for longer. This is simply my own personal opinion about the restaurants I’ve eaten in that have impressed me the most over this past year. Agree or disagree? Leave a comment!

Choux’s former incarnations included temporary restaurants Repéré and Foyer, both of which I had glowing things to say about. So I was especially pleased that the same team have now found a permanent home from which to serve up their own brand of hyper-organic-but-still-sexy food. Every dish looks like an oil painting, and the wines are totally different from the average, too. A great addition to Amsterdam’s restaurant scene. ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).