Fort Negen

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

Fort Negen was a serious croissant bakery before the algorithm arrived, and it still is one underneath the queue. The ijscroissant, a croissant piped full of soft serve, is the video that travels, but the plain croissant and the cruffins are why De Baarsjes keeps coming back. The line is a weekend-morning phenomenon; on a Tuesday you stroll in and wonder what the fuss was. It sits on the Jan Evertsenstraat next to the good-value West everyone claims to be looking for. In our guide with a real score, because the baking earns it.

This one is in our guide with a 8.4/10. Read the full review →