Café Binnenvisser Amsterdam: a light brown café with a weekly changing menu in Oud West

At Café Binnenvisser Amsterdam you can linger for hours

Think of the old brown cafés in Amsterdam and then imagine a light-colored café. A place where you can spend hours drinking beers at the bar, but also order a good bottle of wine for a few tens of euros. Bob Nagel and Maarten Bloem recently opened the cozy Café Binnenvisser Amsterdam on Bilderdijkstraat, and we can assure you, this is the place where you'll want to have a beer and a bite to eat with friends this weekend.

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Bob and Maarten helped build the cinema, wine bar, and restaurant FC Hyena, where they developed a love for natural wines. They had the idea to start their own business, but not the concept. Until the wines! And voilà, Café Binnenvisser Amsterdam was born. An Amsterdam café where you can sample a wide variety of natural wines and enjoy a three-course meal, but where you can also have a beer at the bar and order your favorite main course.

A different menu every week at Café Binnenvisser Amsterdam

Café Binnenvisser Amsterdam is a simple and affordable eatery where you can order a set menu or just a main course. Expect a delicious plate of food made with super fresh and high-quality ingredients. The focus is often on vegetables, but fish and meat lovers will also find something to their liking. The menu usually consists of two starters, one main course (always a vegetarian option), and two desserts. The chefs, by the way, come from De Vergulde Eenhoorn and Restaurant MOS, so you're in for a treat ;-)

To keep things interesting, the menu changes weekly. What can you expect to find here? Think of dishes like smoked trout, chanterelles, and white wine sauce, stuffed pumpkin with chestnut miso, truffled pearl barley and Parmigiano, and roasted cabbage with dukkah, potato and horseradish mousseline, and king boletus. My eye is immediately drawn to the desserts: fig paste with strained curd and pistachios, chocolate fudge with rosehip, and poached pear with speculoos... Oh my!

Besides the weekly changing menu, they also have a bar menu where you can order oysters, sardines from Portugal, charcuterie with cured meats from Baambrugge, cheeses from cheesemonger Kef, and bread from French bakery Niemeijer. P.S.: The prices are excellent. A main course costs between €12,50 and €17,50, and a three-course meal is around €25.

This Amsterdam café truly looks like a traditional Dutch pub (brown café)—think lots of dark wood, bar stools, stained-glass windows, and vintage and secondhand furniture to complete the look. P.S.: The men even made some of the furniture themselves. You'll want to spend a few hours here!

Café Binnenvisser Amsterdam has grown up with the men

Fun fact: the name Café Binnenvisser Amsterdam comes from the street where the boys met years ago. Bob lived on Binnen Vissersstraat in the Jordaan for eight years, a sort of gathering place where friends would meet for food and drinks (and occasionally party). Café Binnenvisser is the grown-up version of that place!

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LOVE,

RENEE

Photo credits: Café Binnenvisser