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Lonely Planet’s Top Tip Be aware that trams 3 and 10 don’t pass by Centraal Station, but take ring routes around the centre instead. If you’re heading to areas such as Westerpark and Westergasfabriek from Centraal, a bus is by far your best bet.
Best Places
5 to Eat
¨¨ Balthazar’s Keuken
(p147) ¨¨ Café Restaurant Open
(p151) ¨¨ Semhar (p148) ¨¨ Marius (p151) ¨¨ Pont 13 (p148)
For reviews, see p146.A
Best Places
Explore Jordaan & the West Though gentrified today, the Jordaan was a rough, densely populated volksbuurt (district for the common people) until the mid-20th century, and that history still shows. You’ll discover that this neighbourhood is a curiously enchanting mix of its traditional gritty, harddrinking, leftist character and its revitalised, trendconscious sheen. The area doesn’t have many traditional sights, but that’s not the point. It’s the little things that are appealing here – the narrow lanes, the old facades, the funny little shops. The Jordaan is about taking your time wandering and not worrying if you get lost. Start the day at the northern end of the Jordaan and criss-cross towards the neighbourhood’s south, catching the area’s museums, architecture and, if you time it right, markets, along the way. Take a coffee break at one of the many canal-side cafes along the Prinsengracht. On day two, go west. Hop on a bike and wend through the Western Islands before a spin around verdant Westerpark. In the evening, revel in the possibilities that any evening in the Westergasfabriek presents, from an arthouse film to jazz or rock and roll.
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Local Life
¨¨ ’t Smalle (p151)
¨Market Life
¨¨ Finch (p152) ¨¨ Westergasterras (p154) ¨¨ De Pieper (p152) ¨¨ Café P 96 (p152)
For reviews, see p151.A
Best Places
7 to Shop
¨¨ Moooi Gallery (p155) ¨¨ De Winkel Van Guus
Morning bliss in the Jordaan means cruising the weekly outdoor markets – Noordermarkt (p157), Lindengracht Market (p157) and Westermarkt (p157) – for mouthwatering food, bargain clothes and funky flea-market treasures. ¨Cultural Life Locals flock to the former gasworks turned cutting-edge cultural complex, Westergasfabriek (p155). ¨Docklands Life Two of Amsterdam’s most extraordinary bars/restaurants – in a former offshore pirate radio and TV rig, and aboard a moored 1927-built ferry – are just north of the Western Islands in the Western Docklands (p148).
(p155) ¨¨ SPRMRKT (p156) ¨¨ Antiekcentrum Amsterdam (p156) ¨¨ Het Oud-Hollandsch Snoepwinkeltje (p156)
For reviews, see p155.A
Getting There & Away ¨Tram
Tram 3 and 10 along Marnixstraat skirt the neighbourhood’s western edge; trams 13, 14 and 17 along Rozengracht go through its centre. ¨Bus Buses 18, 21, 22 and 48 provide the quickest access from Centraal to the neighbourhood’s north, west and Western Islands. ¨Car Whatever you do, don’t try to drive through the Jordaan’s narrow streets. Seriously.
