Which Amsterdam TikTok food spots are worth the queue?

Amsterdam’s viral food spots draw queues for Parmesan fries, thick toast and a single chocolate cookie. Are they worth waiting for? The useful question is which one fits your appetite and your day. Pick two or three nearby stops rather than spending your city break working through a list of queues.

These six food spots are in the city centre and the Jordaan, so you can combine them with a canal walk. Use the advice below to choose between a takeaway snack, lunch and a proper coffee break.

1. Fabel Friet for Parmesan fries

Fabel Friet is known for fries topped with truffle mayonnaise and Parmesan. The potatoes are Agria, fried with their skins on. Think of it as a savoury stop while exploring the Nine Streets, rather than somewhere for a long, seated meal.

Worth the queue? It makes sense if the cheese-and-truffle combination is what you came to try. If you simply want some chips between activities, a long wait takes time away from the rest of your visit. Agree with your group how much time you want to spend on this stop before joining.

Address for this walk: Runstraat 1, in the Nine Streets.

2. Chun for toast and matcha

Chun Café serves generously filled toast alongside matcha and coffee. Of the places in this guide, it works particularly well as a lunch stop. Plan it as your savoury meal, then choose a smaller sweet snack elsewhere along the way.

The well-known café is at Berenstraat 8. There is also a café at Spuistraat 122, so you do not have to visit Berenstraat just to try Chun. Pick the branch that fits your walk, without assuming another location will always have a shorter queue.

Worth the queue? More likely if this is your planned lunch. A lengthy wait for a takeaway drink alone uses a sizeable part of your day for a brief stop. The Berenstraat café is open daily from 10am to 5pm.

3. Lourens for a crookie

Lourens on Oude Leliestraat is a bakery for a sweet treat. Its best-known pastry is the crookie, a combination of a croissant and cookie dough. This is a pastry stop, rather than a restaurant to plan your evening meal around.

Worth the queue? Choose Lourens if that filled pastry is what you want to try. A crookie followed by a Van Stapele cookie and a slice of apple pie adds up to a lot of sweet food. Share a pastry if you want to sample several places, or pick one bakery and leave room for lunch.

Address: Oude Leliestraat 15, near the Torensluis bridge.

4. Bakkerij Egstorf for a warm stroopwafel

Hans Egstorf on Spuistraat is a stop for stroopwafels: two thin waffles with a layer of syrup between them. If you have only tried the packaged version at home, a warm stroopwafel gives you a different way to enjoy this Dutch snack.

The distinctive corner building on Spuistraat and Raamsteeg was designed by Gerrit van Arkel. It fits naturally into a walk from Spui towards the Nine Streets.

Worth the queue? It is a good fit if you want a warm stroopwafel to eat during your walk. Decide whether you want a snack now or a gift to take home; those are different purchases. You do not need a large gift box to try one.

Address: Spuistraat 274.

5. Van Stapele for a chocolate cookie

Van Stapele makes one type of cookie, with dark chocolate dough and a white chocolate centre. There is no long menu to work through. The shop is at Rokin 17, having moved from Heisteeg in April 2024.

Worth the queue? It is a useful choice for a small sweet stop if you like chocolate. You are coming for one particular cookie, rather than a varied bakery selection.

The shop opens daily at 10am and guarantees cookies until 4pm. After that, it closes when the cookies sell out, so schedule this stop before late afternoon. It is closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.

6. Winkel 43 for apple pie and coffee

Winkel 43 on Noordermarkt is known for its apple pie. Compared with picking up a cookie at Van Stapele, it makes more sense when you want to take a break over coffee and a slice of cake.

Worth the queue? It fits a slower visit to the Jordaan with time for a café stop. If you need a quick sweet bite between timed bookings, takeaway is more practical. Noordermarkt has a farmers’ market on Saturdays, while Mondays bring market stalls to Noordermarkt and Westerstraat. You can combine your café stop with exploring the market.

Address: Noordermarkt 43.

A practical walk between Amsterdam’s viral food spots

For a city-centre walk, start at Van Stapele on Rokin, continue via Spui to Egstorf, then cross the canals towards Runstraat and Berenstraat. Choose Fabel Friet or Chun as your savoury stop. You do not need both if you also want a sweet treat.

For the Jordaan, head via the Torensluis bridge and Lourens towards Noordermarkt. Choose between a crookie and apple pie along the way, rather than ordering at every stop just to complete the list.

Allow half a day for two or three stops with walking in between. That is a planning suggestion, rather than a measured queue forecast. Put any timed museum visit or performance before your food walk, or leave plenty of space between them.

For a longer meal, compare our restaurants in Amsterdam. You can also explore more food and drink in Amsterdam to plan the rest of your visit.

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