Café de Blaffende Vis
The Jordaan corner kroeg where dinner is 15 euro, the fries are hand-cut and two specials change every day.
The corner of Westerstraat and Tweede Boomdwarsstraat has been a drinking address since a liquor store and proeflokaal opened here around 1916, it was Café Arie in the eighties, and since 1988 it has been De Blaffende Vis, the barking fish, a name whose origin the owners cheerfully admit nobody remembers. Jort Vos, who cooked here from 2004, took it over with Bob Brockhoff around 2018 and kept the formula: kroeg by day, eetcafé from 17:30, with a kitchen that cuts its own fries, makes its own saté sauce and ribs and changes two specials every day from 13.50. The fixed card is short and flat-priced: chicken satay with atjar, krupuk and fries at 15, a beef burger with cheddar and bacon at 15, a mushroom burger, a smoked salmon salad, all at the same 15 euro, which in the 2026 Jordaan is close to charity. Mokum Magazine called it the barking living room of the Jordaan in 2024 and the Koningsdag facade, unchanged for thirty years, made Het Parool in April 2025. The room is a real bruine kroeg with Café Nol glowing across the street; the cooking is honest rather than remarkable, and the site notes the owners are looking for a partner to take over daily management, so watch for change.
Open from 09:00 or 09:30 daily until 01:00, 03:00 on Friday and Saturday; dinner from 17:30. No online booking, groups by contact form. Read the board for the two daily specials before ordering the saté.
What to order
Full menu- Kipsaté€15
Peanut sauce, atjar, krupuk and hand-cut fries, the flat 15 euro house main.
- Dagspecials€13.50
Two change every day, from 13.50; ribs made in house show up often.
- Beef burger€15
Cheddar, bacon, chipotle mayo and those fries, same 15 euro.
- Huisgesneden friet€5.50
Cut in the kitchen every day, the detail that separates this from the bar next door.
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