Silk

Modern Asian small plates in Oud-West from the Salvo Bakehouse and nNea team, Silk Road flavors without the fusion cliché.

Limau Chen spent years building Italian addresses in this city, nNea's pizza and Salvo's pastry among them, before she turned back toward her own roots. Silk is what came out of that: a long, dark-red room on Bilderdijkstraat where chef Paolo Manzo cooks a route rather than a fusion, tracing dishes east from the Mediterranean into China and back. Snacks and skewers open the menu: tempura mushrooms, beef skewers with anchoiade, kimchi croquettes under pickled red onion. Mains run bigger, a whole fried sea bass with spicy herb salad, a rib-eye rice bowl finished with cured egg yolk, mussels in Thai satay sauce. Desserts still come from Salvo, the burnt Basque cheesecake with hojicha and miso caramel is the one people photograph. A forty-five euro tasting menu covers the range for anyone who wants the kitchen to choose. It opened in June 2025 on the site of the old Little Collins, and it has settled fast into being one of Oud-West's better tables for sharing, loud in the right way, without trying to be anything other than exactly what it is.

Tue-Sat 18:00-00:00, closed Sunday and Monday. Best ordered as a table-wide share, ask the kitchen to pace snacks and mains together.

Photo: Silk Amsterdam, via De Westkrant