Comments on: Off to… London, Berlin & Amsterdam

By: clara

clara — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:43:10 +0000

I love the graphic you created for your travels!
Have fun & enjoy all the food & beautiful sites you’ll be seeing 🙂

By: Dani

Dani — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 20:01:51 +0000

In reply to jeanine. Lucky you, I miss London so much. My fiancée managed The Veggie Table in Borough for two years, hope you stopped by & tried a burger! :)

By: jeanine

jeanine — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 19:51:00 +0000

In reply to Dani. I was there on Friday, phew :)

By: Dani

Dani — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 10:37:59 +0000

In reply to Anastasia. Borough is not open on Sundays!

By: thyme (sarah)

thyme (sarah) — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:38:08 +0000

I see you live in Austin! We are in Houston but my daughter is now going to U.T. so we are discovering your wonderful city on visits to see her. I don’t know if you left for your trip yet….but we thoroughly enjoyed the “Burrough’s Market” in London. It is huge, tucked away south of the river. It weaves partly underground and is a food bloggers paradise!! Bon Voyage! Glad I discovered another Texan blog.

By: Pamela

Pamela — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:06:18 +0000

In Amsterdam, you should definitely check out the Albert Cuypmarket to the east of the canals. It’s the longest street market in the Netherlands and where the locals shop for fresh and local food as well as household items and clothes. There is an amazing spice shop (which also has other very cool things) at number 150 on the left side as you go up the street. It’s a real shop, not a stall. I always stock up when I’m there. It’s closed on Sundays. Also visit the Noordermarkt in the Jordan district if you have time.

One of my favorite restaurants in the city is the Kantjil & de Tijger, http://kantjil.nl/en/ on the Spuistraat. Their specialty is the Indonesian rijkstafel (rice table) dinner. I believe they have a vegetarian version. There are fancier and cheaper versions but this is my personal favorite.

I’m going to Berlin in March so look forward to reading about your discoveries and recommendations once you’ve been there. Safe travels.

By: ileana

ileana — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:09:17 +0000

Please tell us all about your experience eating at Ottolenghi!

By: Courtney Jones

Courtney Jones — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 03:25:15 +0000

I don’t have any particular recommendations for your travels, but I wanted to wish you a safe and wonderful trip. Enjoy! Say hello to London for me. I cannot wait to go back one day 🙂

By: Willemijn

Willemijn — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 15:01:02 +0000

My favorite veggie restaurant in Amsterdam is: De Waaghals (http://www.waaghals.nl). Another interesting, but a bit more out of the way place is Betty’s: (www.bettys.nl). For coffee try Two For Joy on the Haarlemmerdijk, across the street from my favorite cinema The Movies (www.themovies.nl). Another nice area is the Westergasterrein, with a cinema, a park, some nice cafe’s, a coffee place and a lunch place (http://www.debakkerswinkel.nl/amsterdam-west) Enjoy!

By: Lauren

Lauren — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 04:19:56 +0000

Sounds like a fantastic trip! I adored Berlin, had a wonderful time in Amsterdam, and have yet to do London.
Berlin recommendations:
I’m not a vegetarian, and was also a broke student when I travelled, so I mostly dined al fresco in parks. But the Saturday farmer’s market in Winterfeldtplatz in the Schöneberg neighbourhood is amazing! Plus, there is a great park with the most fantastic climbing structure I have ever seen nearby.
In terms of nightlife, two very interesting bars we went to were in Mitte, one called Silberfish, which was very hip, and Cafe Zapata, for which I have no words to describe.
Also, I really can’t recommend Museum Berggruen in Charlottenburg enough. It’s a fairly small museum, but has a wonderful collection of Picassso and other modernists like Klee and Matisse.

Amsterdam:
To be honest I didn’t eat very well here, but it looks as though you’ve received a lot of good restaurant recommendations.
Defintely rent bikes, and visit Vondelpark, it’s wonderful and we met many interesting people claiming the public space in many ways.

Two neighbourhoods that are faily off the beaten track are Westerpark And Oud-West, there are a ton of artists and young people so there are lots of shops, cafes, restaurants and galleries to choose from. I particularly enjoyed the Museum Het Schip, which has a free tour and focuses on architecture and the building’s interesting history as a model of social housing. Plus the “culture park” Westergasfabriek was awesome.

Have a great time!