A 10-minute walk south along the canal, The Hoxton Amsterdam beckons as a herringbone-floored hipster honeypot with monumental ceilings, mid-century furnishings, and a buzzy all-day diner that serves excellent eggs Benedict. Its year-old Celia restaurant dishes up Californian cuisine as bright and sprightly as the art-studded bedrooms upstairs.
With its Delftware Blue-accents, Kimpton DeWitt makes for an excellent base thanks to its location near the ferry terminal and complimentary Van Moof bikes. Drinks include natural wines and sake, poured behind a wooden bar that doubles as a DJ booth-a nod to the stamp-size listening bars of Tokyo.īut with 24/7 ferries to spirit you from central Amsterdam to Noord in mere minutes, staying downtown is another option. The vegetable-forward, Asian-inspired menu-think yellow beets with pickled daikon and mushroom karaage-has diners from all over Amsterdam rushing for a table on first-come, first-served Fridays and Saturdays (they do take reservations from Tuesday to Thursday). Next door, Corner Store, housed in a low-slung former storage space, opened last June after the lockdown ended and quickly became one of the city's most in-demand tables. In late 2019 pop-up pizzeria Klaproos turned a humdrum office space there into a sultry, candlelit dining room, where you'll find well-priced antipasti and pizzas with spicy nduja, white truffle, or vegan mozzarella on sunny days, snag a picnic table on the waterside terrace at the back of the building. The garage block bookending the industrial Papaverweg is also drawing foodie crowds with its cohort of businesses. Lunch at the grocery-café Waargenoegen Chris Schalkx There are tables set up in its colorful foyer, but you can take your order into its two screening rooms, which show art-house flicks and classic films on Tuesdays. In a converted warehouse a few doors down, bistro-slash-indie cinema FC Hyena serves natural wines and dishes up unpretentious small bites such as roast cauliflower with tahini and grilled octopus with tomatillo salsa. The seasonal menu is big on seafood, but the crispy-skinned rotisserie chicken is a favorite among regulars. Hotel de Goudfazant is a case in point: This perennially packed restaurant, which occupies a cavernous former garage in a concrete-and-steel complex on the eastern riverbank, has been a neighborhood mainstay since it opened in 2006, serving French-tinged fare to guests seated in plastic canteen chairs. Hidden in unassuming shipyards and once-abandoned industrial estates, Noord's best bars and dining establishments often make you look twice. The programming changes daily expect everything from political drag shows to book readings and performances by avant-garde international musicians. And on the Noordwall promenade, a multi-use space is home to the artist collective Sexyland World, which operates a conceptual nightclub and experimental art galleries. A 15-minute stroll north, the new Nxt Museum looks still further ahead, exploring a future of art that blurs the boundaries of technology and design through immersive audiovisual installations and room-spanning interactive video works. At the angular Eye Filmmuseum, which heralded Noord's cultural genesis when it opened in 2012, the permanent collection showcases Hollywood memorabilia and vintage cameras, while pop-up exhibitions explore everything from Dutch film directors to found-footage cinema. While it's all about the Old Masters and Van Gogh in Amsterdam's museum quarter, Noord's art spaces zero in on a more recent era.
Its defunct factories, which once cranked out cargo ships and steel, have been overtaken by freethinking chefs, tech start-ups, and edgy artists who have turned Noord's once-gritty industrial parks into the city's most envelope-pushing creative spaces.Ī plate of cured hamachi at Cornerstore Chris Schalkx Set out on a culture crawl
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It takes only a free five-minute ferry hop from Central Station, the city's main transport hub, to access this district, which has built up its creative cred since the early 2010s. One of these is Amsterdam-Noord, a curious corner locals have known about for years, just four miles north of downtown. After the onset of the pandemic, its local council took steps to limit these crowds, like voting to move its infamous red-light district to a new purpose-built neighborhood outside the city center (the location is still TBD) outlawing nonresidents from lighting up spliffs and launching splashy campaigns to nudge visitors to other areas. Almost 22 million visitors-a staggering 27.5 times Amsterdam's population-descended on the city's cobblestone streets in 2019.
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