New openingPhoto: Restaurant Omi Amsterdam
De Pijp (Tweede Jan Steenstraat) · Opened 1 October 2026
Omi
Two people, one kitchen and a 55 euro three-course menu built on what grandma would have cooked, if grandma kept caviar.
This corner of the Tweede Jan Steenstraat has form: Le Restaurant held a Michelin star here, then came JA. Now it is Omi, and the cast list is two names long. Daan cooks, alone. Steffie does everything else, wine included. The pitch is grandmother's cooking with a sharper knife: a 55 euro three-course chef's menu, right now North Sea sea bass with kohlrabi and horseradish, wild duck with ratatouille and za'atar, pumpkin with peach and coffee. Then the extras get you: an oliebol with romesco and caviar, eel on brioche, blood sausage with sweetbread for 9. Dinner only, and mind the calendar, they close 22 to 26 October.
Chef movePhoto: Le Souterrain / Chin Chin Club
Jordaan (Rozengracht) · Reported 2 October 2026
Julius Nuiten, Le Souterrain
The chef who ran the kitchen when Bistro de la Mer won its star now cooks in a nightclub basement. On purpose.
Julius Nuiten led the kitchen at Bistro de la Mer when it picked up a Michelin star in 2023. His new address is under the Chin Chin Club on the Rozengracht, which sounds like a career detour until you read the menu. French technique, cooked à la minute: an oyster with smoked o-toro and caviar, rösti with old cheese and capocollo, a bouillabaisse served as a cappuccino, short rib in red wine sauce for 29. Thursdays are plain à la carte from 19:00. Fridays and Saturdays come with a dinner show, currently Queen of Hearts, after which the room quietly turns into the club. Leave before that, or don't. Nobody is checking.
MichelinPhoto: FuLu Mandarijn via Michelin Guide
Centrum (Rokin), Rivierenbuurt (Lekstraat) and Houthavens (Barentszstraat) · Bib Gourmand announced 28 September 2026
FuLu Mandarijn, Utage & Boon & De Koot
Michelin hands Amsterdam three new Bib Gourmands: Sichuan offal on the Rokin, sake in the Rivierenbuurt, vegetables in the Houthavens.
Michelin named ten new Bib Gourmands for the Netherlands on 28 September, and Amsterdam walked off with three. FuLu Mandarijn on the Rokin is the one with the heat: Sichuan cooking with Cantonese dim sum on the side, and the inspectors went straight for the beef offal with dried chilli and Sichuan pepper. Open daily from 11:30, so lunch counts. Utage Sake Bar on the Lekstraat is a playful izakaya where you roll your own toro tartare in nori with shiso and fresh wasabi. Boon & De Koot, from the Zoldering crew, is a vintage bistro in the Houthavens with a vegetable-first kitchen and, in Michelin's own words, gentle prices.
Coming soonPhoto: Entree Magazine
De Pijp (Frans Halsstraat) · Opening early November 2026 (announced)
Élan
The Roux owners take the old Maris Piper corner, with their executive chef as partner and mains at 25 to 30.
Neo Bistro only moved into the Frans Halsstraat corner in March, and it is already out. The building that was Maris Piper for years now goes to Roos Bierhoff and Allon Niesen of Roux in the Jordaan, who open Élan here in early November, with Roux's executive chef Sebastiano Guglielmucci coming in as chef and co-owner while keeping his day job. The pitch is looser than Roux: à la carte, generous plates, big dishes to share and a wine list that won't sting. Starters around 15, mains 25 to 30. About 120 seats inside, 50 on the terrace, marble and mirrors against leather and raw walls. No menu or website yet, just a month.
New openingPhoto: Entree Magazine
Oud-West (Jan Pieter Heijestraat) · Opened 21 September 2026
Vin Fou
Angelo Kremmydas opened a no-bookings French wine bar straight across from Gitane, plat du jour at 15 to 17.
Angelo Kremmydas now holds both sides of the Jan Pieter Heijestraat. Vin Fou takes the old CoffeeRoastery at number 143, directly opposite Gitane, and plays the loose after-work cousin: no reservations, open every day, small plates and a weekly plat du jour at 15 to 17 euro, red lentil stew with vadouvan one week, boeuf bourguignon the next. Gitane chef Sotiris Kokkalis wrote the snacks with him, duck ham with chamomile-apricot mustard, a pork croquette with nashi pear, barbecued golden beet under beurre blanc, and the Gitane côte de boeuf crossed the road too. Sommelier Sep Oosterkamp runs 120 labels, glasses from 5.50, carafes around 22, plus a 300-bottle cellar list. Weekend lunch from noon, heated terrace for the cold months.
MichelinPhoto: Entree Magazine
Jordaan (Lindengracht) and Oost (Beukenplein) · Added to the Michelin guide 18 September 2026
Michelin's September batch sends two Amsterdam names into the guide: Daalder back on the Lindengracht, and Kremmydas' Greek-French restobar in Oost.
Nine new Dutch entries in Michelin's September update, two of them here. Daalder is the homecoming: Dennis Huwaë left Het Sieraad in June and moved back into the corner house at Lindengracht 90 where it all started ten years ago, and the inspectors like the warm, wood-panelled room and the swerve from a shrimp bao to lamb rib lacquered with char siu and a stroopwafel to finish. Six courses are 125, Thursday to Monday from 17:30. Massalia on the Beukenplein is the surprise, Angelo Kremmydas' second place, Greece meets Marseille: hand-cut beef giouvarlakia in lemon sauce, a côte de boeuf with southern herbs, Greek and French wine, a 120-seat terrace. Michelin praises the value, which, in the week Kremmydas opens Vin Fou, is decent timing.
New openingPhoto: Anouk Janmaat, via Misset Horeca
Oud-West (Ten Katestraat) · Opened 12 September 2026
Spin
Nine pool tables, a wall of vinyl and Hong Kong snacks take over the old Café Panache corner.
Café Panache held this corner of the Ten Katemarkt for a decade, and its successor could not be more different. Spin is a hi-fi listening bar crossed with a pool café, built by a collective with DGTL, Door 74, Sissi's and Club RAUM on their CVs, and Spym Studio gave the 350 square metres a warm sixties-to-eighties look with a separate dive bar for sixty. The pool is serious, nine tournament-grade tables, and so is the sound: DJs and collectors play their own records rather than a playlist. The food card is short and Hong Kong-leaning, karaage at 10, a hambagu or tori katsu sando at 13, skewers from 7, kimchi and smashed cucumber on the side, plus a cocktail list built around jasmine, pandan, yuzu and umeshu at 12 to 14. Dinner service runs 19:00 to 22:00, snacks the rest of the time, and it stays open until one, three at weekends.
New openingPhoto: Sushi Oodo
Centrum (Utrechtsestraat) · Opened 12 September 2026
Sushi Oodo
Kazuya Matsumoto opens a counter-only omakase on the Utrechtsestraat, seasonal Edo-mae with a French detour.
The Utrechtsestraat has plenty of Japanese, none of it at this pitch. Sushi Oodo is a seasonal omakase counter from chef Kazuya Matsumoto, who trained in strict traditional sushi houses in Japan and then spent time in patisserie and French kitchens, and business partner Nassim Zeta. The pitch is shun, the moment an ingredient peaks, so the sequence shifts a little every day, Edo-mae technique with modern methods and produce from both Japan and the Netherlands. The name means great earth and is his mother's maiden name, which tells you how personal this is. Sake is the main event on the drinks side, with Japanese and European wine and a serious tea pairing for anyone not drinking. The room is a single pale wood counter in a plaster-walled box, reservations go by email or phone, and no prices are published yet, so ask before you commit an evening.
Coming soonPhoto: De Westkrant
Zuidoost (Bijlmerplein) · Grand opening 6 November 2026 (announced)
The Jollof Club
Nicolas Aquaa's West African supper club gets a permanent home in Zuidoost, crowdfunded by its fans, grand opening 6 November.
Nicolas Aquaa has been cooking West African food around town for years, in pop-ups, residencies and a cookbook called, fittingly, The Jollof Club. Now he and Bunmi Okolosi are fitting out a permanent room on the Bijlmerplein, partly paid for by their fans through CrowdAboutNow, and the countdown on their site ends on Friday 6 November. Aquaa has Ghanaian and Nigerian roots and Michelin kitchens on his CV, and cooks those flavours with Dutch seasonal produce: a seasonal tasting menu, cocktails built on African botanicals. At this summer's Prinsengracht residency the hits were suya skewers, smoked jollof and kelewele, so expect that DNA. Bookings are already open. Worth the metro ride.
Chef movePhoto: Sandberg, via JFK
Museumkwartier (Museumplein) · Extended through October 2026
Schilo van Coevorden, Sandberg
The man who built Taiko cooks under the Stedelijk bathtub, and the 69 euro Kusama menu now runs through October.
Schilo van Coevorden left the Conservatorium in January after more than a decade of Taiko, and nobody quite knew where he had gone. The answer is Sandberg, the café-restaurant under the Stedelijk's bathtub, where he cooks a five-course menu built around the museum's big Yayoi Kusama retrospective for 69 euro a head. He translates rhythm, repetition and colour rather than copying the dots: kabocha with roasted corn, black garlic and buna shimeji, or usuzukuri of swordfish with umeboshi and kinjirushi wasabi. September sold out, so Sandberg stretched it to three months, with fourteen October evenings from the 1st to the 31st. No vegan version, flag allergies when you book. His day job is now a golf club in Nistelrode, so this is your Amsterdam window.
Chef movePhoto: Bistrot Neuf
Haarlemmerbuurt (Haarlemmerstraat) · Announced 9 September 2026
The Haarlemmerstraat bistro that collected four Bib Gourmands hands its pass to a classically trained chef from 3WO.
Bistrot Neuf has been doing proper French bistro cooking on the Haarlemmerstraat since 2009, long enough to have earned four Bib Gourmands in a row and a 13.5 from Gault&Millau. This summer it quietly changed chefs, and on 9 September it said so: Gijs van der Hoofd now runs the kitchen. He did six years at Oker in The Hague, trained in New York and Switzerland, cooked at Morgan & Mees and IQ Creative and most recently managed kitchens for 3WO Horeca Groep. The classics stay, above all the Brioche Neuf with lobster, mayonnaise and foie gras, but he has added a crudo de coquille and a poussin rôti, and built a two-course chef's lunch aimed at the business crowd. Seven days a week from noon, lunch until 16:30, dinner from 17:30, forty wines by the glass.
New openingPhoto: Patricia Jacob, De Westkrant
Westerpark (Zeeheldenbuurt, Zoutkeetsplein) · Opened 3 September 2026
Café Iep
The old Café Mads becomes a Zeeheldenbuurt all-dayer with a pecorino kroket brioche and a fig-leaf sundae for two.
The old Café Mads on the Zoutkeetsplein got two months of sanding and a name that sounds like a happy hiccup. Behind it are Melle Vogels on the floor and London-trained chef Ellie Brawn in the kitchen, who met at Entrepot and toured their pop-up Bits & Bobs from Apostrof all the way to Le Chardon in Arles. Lunch comes off a chalkboard, snacks run 15:00 to 17:00, dinner from 17:00. Order the brioche with pecorino kroket (11), the salted duck breast (5) and the fig-leaf ice-cream sundae for two (13), and act like you've been coming for years. Beef cheek is heading for the new dinner card. Thursday to Sunday only, so plan ahead.
New openingPhoto: Bistro de Fles
Grachtengordel (Prinsengracht) · Opened early September 2026
Bistro de Fles
Guillaume de Beer reopens his basement as a bistro and borrows the old eetcafé name.
Guillaume de Beer has been cooking on this stretch of the Prinsengracht for years, first as Bar Gui, now as Bistro de Fles, borrowing the name of the eetcafé that fed this basement for decades. The card is short and rewritten every month: langoustine, turbot, a rib of beef with foie, plus snacks and one big dish built for the middle of the table. De Beer cooks direct and product first, with proper sauces and classic technique doing the heavy lifting. Panos Tsoliaridis runs the room and the wine, which leans European and is taken seriously. Wednesday to Saturday, down the stairs, book ahead.
Coming soonPhoto: Hospitality Management / The College Hotel (Sidney Schutte)
Oud-Zuid · Opening December 2026 (announced)
Sidney Schutte, The Gym
Two-star Spectrum chef turns a gym into a restaurant. After some back and forth, the door now opens in December.
Sidney Schutte spent twelve years earning two stars at Spectrum, then went off and opened restaurants in Mexico and Malaysia. Now he is converting the old gymnasium beside The College Hotel on the Roelof Hartstraat into The Gym, and after sliding from September to November, his own site has settled on December. The pitch is that you can eat at a high level without handing over an entire evening to a tasting menu: mostly à la carte, heavy on fish, shellfish and vegetables, which tracks for a chef from Zeeland. Lunch and dinner Thursday to Monday, Danny Spoel as executive chef, Tim Palacios on the wine, D/Dock on the conversion. No menu or exact date yet.