New openingPhoto: Ottolenghi
Museumkwartier · Opened 19 March 2026
Ottolenghi Amsterdam
Yotam Ottolenghi's first Dutch restaurant, vegetables blazing, inside the Conservatorium.
Thirty years after he lived here as a student, Yotam Ottolenghi is back with his first restaurant in the Netherlands, and it's not a deli counter but a proper 85-seat all-day restaurant in the Mandarin Oriental Conservatorium, steps from the Van Gogh. Expect the full Ottolenghi playbook: vegetables in the lead role, grill smoke, ferments and pickles everywhere, sharing plates that make meat feel like an afterthought. Breakfast runs until 11, then it rolls straight through to 22:00. Yes, it's in a five-star hotel; no, that hasn't stopped half the city from trying to get a table since March.
New openingPhoto: De Westkrant / Stadscafé
Westerpark · Opened late June 2026
Stadscafé
The Roest and De Willem crew's grand all-day café at Westergas.
The De Kopgroep gang behind Roest and De Willem teamed up with Teds owner Michiel Huisman, took over the old Bar Kantoor space at the Conscious Hotel on Westergas, and turned it into the neighbourhood's new living room. A 250-seat terrace spilling into the park, roughly 100 seats inside, a double-sided 'flirtbar', a reading table, rotisserie chicken, crêpes at breakfast and 120 wines by nightfall. Antwerp's Gestalt Architects did the interior, and it shows, more ornament and velvet than their industrial older siblings. Opened just in time to own the Westerpark summer.
Chef movePhoto: Hospitality Management / The College Hotel (Sidney Schutte)
Oud-Zuid · Opening September 2026 (announced)
Sidney Schutte, The Gym
Two-star Spectrum chef trades tasting menus for a gym in Oud-Zuid.
The biggest chef move of the year: Sidney Schutte, who held two Michelin stars at Spectrum in the Waldorf Astoria for over a decade, has left and is opening The Gym this September, in the actual former gymnasium behind The College Hotel, high ceilings, own entrance, quiet terrace and all. The point, he says, is that the top end is changing: no evening-long menu marathons, just sharp cooking with fish, shellfish and vegetables, serious wine, and the freedom to leave after two courses. He'll also run the hotel's entire food operation. Mark it: opening soon, book fast.
Chef movePhoto: Kama Handroll Bar
Utrechtsestraat (Grachtengordel) · Opening summer 2026
Richard van Oostenbrugge & Thomas Groot, Kama Handroll Bar
The 212 two-star duo go no-menu, no-reservations Japanese handrolls.
Richard van Oostenbrugge and Thomas Groot run one of the city's most decorated kitchens at two-star 212, and their next act is deliberately the opposite: Kama, a Japanese handroll bar on the Utrechtsestraat, their third address on the street after Bistro de la Mer. No menus, no reservations, rock-'n-roll soundtrack, walk in seven days a week and eat temaki until you're done. It's a first for the Netherlands and exactly the kind of high-craft, low-ceremony spot Amsterdam has been importing from LA and London in spirit only. Doors open this summer; expect a queue.
Chef movePhoto: Restaurant Daalder
Jordaan · Since 10 June 2026
Dennis Huwaë, Daalder (back on the Lindengracht)
Michelin-starred Daalder moves home to the Jordaan after ten years.
Full-circle move of the season: Dennis Huwaë has taken his Michelin-starred Daalder out of the cavernous Het Sieraad and back to Lindengracht 90, the exact Jordaan corner where it all started ten years ago. Smaller room, more focus, sharper menu, says the chef, and the early word backs him up. The old West location didn't go dark either: on 8 May he opened BRONS there, an all-day waterside café with fluffy pancakes, smashburgers and matcha, run with Frans van Dam. One star chef, two addresses, both suddenly worth crossing town for.
New openingPhoto: Bouillon d'Amsterdam (A Delicious Story)
Centrum (Dam / Magna Plaza) · Opened 1 March 2026; second branch in Zuid since late June 2026
Bouillon d'Amsterdam
Paris-style bouillon does steak frites for €16.90, and it's rammed.
Michiel van der Eerde (of BAUT fame) and partners lifted the Parisian bouillon formula, grand room, brisk service, honest French classics at prices that feel like a typo, and dropped it into Hotel Die Port van Cleve next to Magna Plaza. Steak frites with herb butter is €16.90, the oeuf mayo costs pocket change, and the crowd is conspicuously Amsterdam rather than tourist. It worked so well that a compact second branch opened in the old BAUT space in Zuid at the end of June. The rare new opening that's genuinely about giving the city back its centre.
New openingPhoto: Amice Amsterdam
Weteringbuurt (Centrum) · Opened March 2026
Amice
Wolf Atelier's chefs open a warm French-Asian à la carte spot.
Michael Wolf finally gave his right hand a co-billing: after fifteen-plus years cooking together at Envy and Wolf Atelier, he and Jordy Koopmans opened Amice, Latin for 'friends', on the quiet Noorderstraat. The formula is casual fine dining done properly: a compact, product-first à la carte where each ingredient shows up in two preparations, French technique with Asian accents, and an open kitchen you can actually talk to. Interior by Concrete (the 212 and NENI people), so the room is warm home-chic rather than white tablecloth. Early reviews are uniformly smitten.
New openingPhoto: Tsunarié
De Pijp · Opened 17 February 2026
Tsunarié
Ten counter seats, A5 wagyu four ways, from the Tewatashi team.
The team behind omakase favourite Tewatashi opened a second act a few doors into the Van Woustraat: Tsunarié, a ten-seat kappo counter where you watch every knife stroke from the bar. The monthly-changing menu (from €125) leans on classic kappo tradition, sushi, yes, but also A5 wagyu cooked four different ways, which is the dish everyone leaves talking about. With so few seats it books out weeks ahead, and it instantly joined the shortlist of Amsterdam's most serious Japanese counters. De Pijp's Japanese corridor keeps getting better.
New openingPhoto: Enfait / Chez van Rijn
Rembrandtplein · Opened February 2026
Chez van Rijn
Parisian bistro in art-nouveau De Kroon, reclaiming Rembrandtplein for locals.
The Poppes family, Rembrandtplein fixtures since the nineties, gutted their old Kitchen & Bar Van Rijn and reopened it as Chez van Rijn inside the monumental De Kroon, all art-nouveau bones and Paris-café swagger. The pitch is simple: oysters, oeuf mayonnaise, steak tartare, mussels, house pâté, steak frites at €22.50, and the stated mission of giving the square back to Amsterdammers instead of stag parties. DJs spin Friday and Saturday, and on Sundays someone's at the grand piano, occasionally with singing. Against all odds, Rembrandtplein is a dinner destination again.