Chun Café in Amsterdam is known for generously filled toast and matcha. Its Rib Eye Bulgogi toast and strawberry matcha are two of the best-known orders. For a lunch stop during your city break, choose Berenstraat if you are exploring the Nine Streets. The Spuistraat café has more seating, making it a useful alternative when you want to eat indoors.
What to eat at Chun Café
The toast is the main reason to plan lunch at Chun. Expect thick, soft bread with a substantial filling, rather than a thin toasted sandwich. Rib Eye Bulgogi is one of the signature options, combining marinated beef with Korean flavours.
Treat the toast as your lunch when planning a food walk. You can follow it with one smaller sweet stop instead of ordering another full meal. To compare other places for a sandwich, explore our guide to sandwich shops in Amsterdam.
Matcha at Chun
Matcha is the other big part of Chun’s appeal. The Matcha Strawberry latte combines the green tea with strawberry. Choose it for a fruitier drink; a regular matcha latte is a different choice if the tea flavour is what interests you most.
Chun sources its matcha directly from small family businesses in Japan. Coffee is also on the menu, so your whole group does not have to be interested in matcha to make this a lunch stop. If you only want a drink, you can work it into a shopping walk instead.
Which Chun Café location should you visit?
Berenstraat for the Nine Streets
Address: Berenstraat 8, 1016 GH Amsterdam.
Opening hours: daily, 10am to 5pm.
Berenstraat works well if you want to stay among the independent shops and canals of the Nine Streets. Combine lunch with a walk along Prinsengracht and Keizersgracht. Runstraat, home to Fabel Friet, is in the same neighbourhood.
This café is smaller than the Spuistraat branch. Choose it if the well-known Nine Streets location is part of the attraction. For a group hoping to sit indoors, Spuistraat offers more space.
Spuistraat for more seating
Address: Spuistraat 122, 1012 VA Amsterdam.
The Spuistraat café opened in 2024 and has more seating. It is around ten minutes on foot from Berenstraat, so you can choose between the two without leaving the city centre.
More seats do not guarantee a shorter queue. They do make this a sensible starting point when sitting down matters more to you than visiting the Nine Streets branch.
Chun at de Bijenkorf
Address: Warmoesstraat 170, 1012 JK Amsterdam.
There is also a Chun location at de Bijenkorf, the department store by Dam Square. It fits a shopping trip around the Dam and Damrak. For a walk through the Nine Streets, Berenstraat and Spuistraat are the more convenient choices.
Is Chun worth queuing for?
Chun is a better fit when trying its toast and matcha is something you particularly want to do. If you simply need a quick lunch before a museum booking or performance, an unpredictable queue leaves less room in your day.
Plan around the start of opening hours if you prefer an early lunch. That is a useful scheduling choice, rather than a promise of an immediate table. Keep your route flexible and decide how much of your visit you want to spend on this stop.
What to do nearby
From Berenstraat, continue through the Nine Streets and along the canals towards the Jordaan. From Spuistraat, walk via the Torensluis bridge to the shops around Oude Leliestraat. The de Bijenkorf location fits an afternoon around Dam Square.
For more well-known food stops, our guide to Amsterdam’s TikTok food spots includes Van Stapele, Lourens, Egstorf and Winkel 43, with a walk linking several of them. You can also explore more food and drink in Amsterdam to plan the rest of your day.
Berenstraat photograph: Jules Verne Times Two (CC BY-SA 4.0).
