The queue check*

The rare queue that predates the algorithm: the apple pie really is that good.

Frying since 1957, and still the best value queue in the centre.

The pistachio the internet promises actually lives here.

The warm stroopwafel that spoils every packaged one after it, and the queue is part of the market.

Croissant-TikTok found a real bakery: the hype is deserved, the weekday is the trick.

Good fries, but not stand-in-a-court-case-long-line good.

The rare hype queue where the food holds up; go before 11 or go to Spuistraat.

The cookie is genuinely excellent; the internet rule stands, only queue if the queue is short.

A 13 euro stroopwafel buried under Oreos is a photo, not a stroopwafel.

Sugar on sugar, but the shortest hype queue in town, so the math almost works.

The pistachio wave found its best Amsterdam address, and it happens to be vegan.

A queue since 1937, a cone under two euros: the anti-hype hype spot.

The Florence sandwich wave done properly, and the line moves like Italians are running it.

A solid smashburger with a professionally manufactured queue: eat it off-peak and skip the theatre.

A clever snack from a young founder, but an hour is dinner time, not sandwich time.

A fine-dining chef making sandwiches in a shoebox: the good kind of hype.

No bowl of soup on earth is worth a two hour queue in the rain.