Star Wine List Restaurants in Amsterdam

212

Amsterdam, Netherlands

2 Michelin stars

On the Amstel River opposite the National Opera, Restaurant 212 operates at the upper tier of Amsterdam's creative fine dining. Richard van Oostenbrugge and Thomas Groot work from an open kitchen in a restored canal house, producing technically precise dishes that earn consistent recognition from La Liste (93 points, 2026) and Opinionated About Dining's European rankings. The Dutch cheese board and wine selection draw particular notice from critics.

Also recognized by Falstaff, La Liste, Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List

4850

Amsterdam, Netherlands

A double-fronted wine bar in Amsterdam East that earned the Star Wine List #1 ranking in both 2021 and 2025, 4850 on Camperstraat operates as a coffee bar by day and a wine-focused restaurant by evening. The Opinionated About Dining Casual in Europe (2025) recognition places it among the continent's most serious informal dining addresses.

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A Tavola

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

Situated on Kadijksplein in Amsterdam's Eastern Docklands, A Tavola holds a White Star recognition from Star Wine List, signalling a wine program that places it in a distinct tier among the city's neighbourhood restaurants. The address puts guests at the edge of one of Amsterdam's quieter, more residential squares, where the dining character runs closer to local institution than destination showcase.

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Arles

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Arles brings modern French cooking to the De Pijp neighbourhood of Amsterdam's Oud-Zuid, operating at the €€ tier with consecutive Michelin Plate recognition in 2024 and 2025. The Govert Flinckstraat address places it in one of the city's most food-literate residential quarters, where the kitchen's French framework reads as considered rather than aspirational..

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Avalon Wijn & Spijs

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Avalon Wijn & Spijs sits in Amsterdam's Schinkelbuurt and holds a White Star recognition from Star Wine List, placing it among the Dutch capital's wine-serious dining addresses. The name signals the concept plainly: wine and food, treated with equal weight. For Amsterdam diners who want a considered list alongside their meal, Avalon belongs in the conversation.

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Badcuyp

Amsterdam, Netherlands

On a quiet De Pijp street corner, Badcuyp occupies the kind of address that rewards those who pay attention to neighbourhood rhythms rather than guidebook rankings. The atmosphere skews local and unhurried, drawing a clientele that returns not out of occasion but out of habit. For visitors, that regulars-first character is the clearest signal of what to expect.

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BAK

Amsterdam, Netherlands

BAK occupies the third floor of Amsterdam's Veem warehouse, overlooking the IJ with a menu architecture built around vegetables long before that became a familiar restaurant pitch. Chef Benny Blisto runs five- and seven-course menus drawing on around 80 vegetable varieties and 50 herb types annually, sourced from regional artisan growers. Michelin Plate recognition and a 2025 Opinionated About Dining ranking confirm its place in Amsterdam's serious mid-tier dining conversation.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List, We're Smart World

Bar Centraal

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Bar Centraal pairs modern neo-bistro small plates with natural wine, an open kitchen, and a leisurely dinner pace that suits a longer, lively evening.

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Bistrot Neuf

Amsterdam, Netherlands

A wine bar and restaurant on Haarlemmerstraat awarded a White Star by Star Wine List in 2022, Bistrot Neuf sits inside Amsterdam's most wine-literate neighbourhood corridor. The format pairs serious list-building with a bistrot sensibility, placing it among a small cohort of Amsterdam addresses where the glass matters as much as the plate.

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Boon & De Koot

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Boon & De Koot brings a French bistro sensibility to Amsterdam's Haarlemmerbuurt, operating as the newest opening from the four-person team behind Restaurant Zoldering. The café chairs and relaxed neighbourhood tempo place it firmly in the tradition of Paris-facing Dutch bistros, closer in spirit to a local haunt than a destination address. It fills a specific gap in Amsterdam's mid-range dining scene.

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Bottleshop Amsterdam

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Bottleshop Amsterdam is a wine bar and restaurant on Wibautstraat, in Amsterdam's evolving east side, recognised by Star Wine List with a White Star designation. The format sits at the intersection of serious wine retail and table service, a combination that has become a defining format for Amsterdam's independent wine scene. Published on Star Wine List in June 2023, it occupies a distinct position in a city that has pushed natural and low-intervention wine to the foreground.

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Brasserie van Baerle

Amsterdam, Netherlands

A Michelin Plate-recognised brasserie on Van Baerlestraat in Amsterdam Zuid, Brasserie van Baerle occupies the mid-tier between neighbourhood bistro and full fine-dining room, with a classic European kitchen that has become a reliable anchor for the museum district's lunch and dinner crowd.

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Bridges

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Perched along Amsterdam’s storied canals, Bridges celebrates the sea with a poised, contemporary hand. Fish takes center stage, framed by polished sauces and refined nods to Asia that illuminate pristine ingredients rather than overshadow them. Floor-to-ceiling windows bathe the sleek dining room in soft light, setting the tone for an experience defined by clarity of flavor, thoughtful progression, and quiet luxury. From briny, salt-kissed delicacies to expertly sauced compositions that balance umami, citrus, and herbaceous lift, each plate speaks of restraint, confidence, and polished sourcing. Service moves with gentle precision, guiding guests through curated wines and pairings that underscore the cuisine’s lucid textures and maritime aromatics.

Also recognized by Star Wine List, We're Smart World

Bubbles & Wines Amsterdam

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Bubbles & Wines Amsterdam holds a 3-Star Accreditation from the World of Fine Wine Awards, placing it among a select tier of wine bars in the Netherlands capital. Located on Nes 37 in Amsterdam's historic centre, the venue centres its offer on sparkling wine and still pours in a setting that invites slow, deliberate drinking rather than speed. For those building a serious wine itinerary through the city, it anchors the conversation.

Also recognized by Star Wine List, World's Best Wine Lists Awards

Bussia

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Bussia occupies a historic canal-house address on Reestraat in Amsterdam's Jordaan district, holding a White Star recognition from Star Wine List as of April 2024. The restaurant sits within the city's serious wine-dining tier, where list depth and table planning both demand advance attention. Booking ahead and arriving with a clear sense of the wine program are the two things that separate a good visit from a great one.

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Buurtcafe de Tros

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Buurtcafe de Tros sits on Linnaeusstraat in Amsterdam's Oosterparkbuurt, earning a White Star recognition from Star Wine List in July 2025 for the quality of its wine program. The cafe format places it in a different register from the city's formal dining tier, prioritising neighbourhood accessibility over occasion dining. For wine-focused visitors, it signals a list worth taking seriously.

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Café Binnenvisser

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Café Binnenvisser on Bilderdijkstraat brings a focused plant-forward kitchen to Amsterdam's Oud-West neighbourhood, where vegetable-led cooking is treated with the same precision typically reserved for fine dining. The menu leans on seasonal and locally sourced produce, executed with creative combinations rather than novelty for its own sake. A warm, contemporary interior keeps the mood relaxed without sacrificing the quality that brings regulars back repeatedly.

Also recognized by Star Wine List, We're Smart World

Café Cress

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Café Cress sits on Johan van Hasseltkade in Amsterdam's Noord district, carrying a White Star recognition from Star Wine List as of July 2025. The address places it away from the city's tourist-dense centre, among a stretch of waterfront that has quietly accumulated serious dining. Its wine credentials anchor it within a specific tier of Amsterdam's neighbourhood restaurant scene.

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Cafe de Klepel

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Cafe de Klepel sits on Prinsenstraat in Amsterdam's Jordaan district, earning the Star Wine List number one ranking in 2021 for a wine program that rewards curiosity rather than label recognition. The room embodies the Dutch concept of gezelligheid — an intimate warmth that makes a long evening here feel earned rather than engineered. It is among the quieter addresses in a neighbourhood that tends toward the picturesque over the serious.

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Cafe Maurits

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Cafe Maurits sits at Hoofddorpplein in Amsterdam's western residential fringe, earning a White Star listing on Star Wine List in July 2025 — a signal that its wine program has drawn attention beyond the neighbourhood. The address places it away from the tourist circuit, in the kind of local square where serious dining tends to develop quietly and persist.

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Café Modern

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Café Modern holds a White Star on Star Wine List, signalling a wine program with serious depth in Amsterdam's Noord district. The address on Meidoornweg places it well north of the canal belt, drawing a local crowd that knows where to find a well-curated glass. For wine-forward dining away from the city's tourist circuit, it sits in a distinct niche.

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Café Parlotte

Amsterdam, Netherlands

A Jordaan neighbourhood café that opened during the pandemic with the kind of conviction that defines a certain stripe of Amsterdam hospitality. Café Parlotte sits on Westerstraat, where the residential streets of the Jordaan give way to a more lived-in, local register. The room draws a crowd that returns for the cooking rather than the occasion, which makes it, paradoxically, well-suited to both.

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Café Restaurant Sandberg

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Positioned on Museumplein and ranked #1 on Star Wine List 2025, Café Restaurant Sandberg operates at the intersection of serious wine culture and accessible Amsterdam dining. Part of the Entrepot group behind De Druif and De Reiger, it brings the same neighbourhood credibility to one of the city's most visited squares, where daytime café energy gives way to a more considered evening service.

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Café Wu

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Opened in 2024 on the border of Amsterdam's Dapperbuurt, Café Wu pairs Chinese cooking with a wine program serious enough to make sommelier circles take notice. The combination sits at the intersection of two trends reshaping the city's mid-range dining scene: a renewed appetite for East Asian cuisines and a growing insistence that wine need not be a European-food-only conversation.

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Calisto

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Calisto occupies a well-worn stretch of Haarlemmerdijk in Amsterdam's Westerpark district, where the city's wine-forward dining conversation has quietly grown more serious. A White Star listing from Star Wine List, awarded in September 2023, positions it among Amsterdam venues where the bottle list drives the reservation as much as the kitchen. For guests planning around the wine programme, it sits in a distinct tier from the neighbourhood's more casual canal-side options.

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Choux

Amsterdam, Netherlands

1 Michelin star

Choux Amsterdam pioneers vegetable-forward fine dining in a converted warehouse near Central Station, where Chef Merijn van Berlo's seasonal tasting menus celebrate Dutch gastronomy alongside one of the city's most comprehensive natural wine programs.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List, We're Smart World

Ciel Bleu

Amsterdam, Netherlands

2 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Ciel Bleu holds two Michelin stars and a La Liste score of 94 points (2026), operating from the 23rd floor of Hotel Okura Amsterdam South. Chef Arjan Speelman leads a creative menu weighted toward crab, lobster, fish, and meat, with vegetables treated with precision if not yet full parity. Star Wine List ranked it #1 in 2025. Open Tuesday through Saturday from 6:30 pm.

Also recognized by Falstaff, La Liste, Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List

Corners Store

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Corners Store on Amsterdam's Papaverweg brings a focused, vegetable-forward approach to a city increasingly serious about plant-based dining. Recognised in the We're Smart® Green Guide for flavour combinations that reward attention, it occupies a niche between the neighbourhood casual and the destination vegetable restaurant. Booking details are best confirmed directly through current listings.

Also recognized by Star Wine List, We're Smart World

CUE

Amsterdam, Netherlands

1 Michelin star

On Utrechtsestraat, CUE sits at the intersection of open-fire cooking and Nordic-inflected restraint, earning a Michelin Plate and the Star Wine List #1 ranking for 2025. Chef George Kataras builds three- and four-element dishes from dry-aged fish, fermented vegetables, and barbecue smoke, pairing them through a wine programme that leans heavily on natural producers. A listening bar in the cellar extends the evening well past dessert.

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De Kas

Amsterdam, Netherlands

1 Michelin star

Operating from a restored 1926 glass greenhouse in Amsterdam's Frankendael park, De Kas holds a Michelin Green Star and a 2024 Michelin Star, cooking a daily-changing Mediterranean menu built almost entirely from its own nursery in the Beemster Polder and on-site gardens. Ranked #250 in Opinionated About Dining's Casual Europe list for 2024, it represents Amsterdam's most coherent argument for field-to-fork dining at the €€€ tier.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List, We're Smart World

De Mark

Amsterdam, Netherlands

De Mark sits on the Durgerdammerdijk waterway just outside Amsterdam, combining a hotel and a Creative French restaurant that has held the Michelin Plate in both 2024 and 2025. The project was conceived by two wine-focused founders with deep personal cellars, and that bias shows in how the room is run.

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De Reiger

Amsterdam, Netherlands

De Reiger occupies a canal-side address in the Jordaan at Nieuwe Leliestraat 34, where the team behind Restaurant Entrepot has built a neighbourhood dining room that earns attention through precision rather than scale. The approach favours depth over expansion, placing it firmly in the tradition of Amsterdam restaurants that treat a single address as a long-term project worth refining. Booking ahead is advisable for this address.

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De Silveren Spiegel

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

One of Amsterdam's oldest surviving restaurant buildings, De Silveren Spiegel occupies a pair of Golden Age canal houses near Centraal Station and serves Creative French cooking anchored in French regional tradition. With a 430-label wine list, a White Star recognition from Star Wine List, and consecutive Michelin Plates in 2024 and 2025, it sits in the €€€ tier alongside De Kas and Wils — more accessible than the city's starred upper bracket, but with serious wine credentials that put it in a different conversation.

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Domenica

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Domenica occupies one of Amsterdam's most storied restaurant addresses, taking over the Noordermarkt space formerly held by the celebrated Bordewijk. Under Mediterranean direction with consecutive Michelin Plate recognition in 2024 and 2025, it sits in Amsterdam's mid-to-upper tier alongside peers like Bistro de la Mer, positioning itself as a neighbourhood destination with genuine critical standing.

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Entrepot

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Positioned along the historic Entrepotdok waterfront, Entrepot brings contemporary vegetable-forward cooking to one of Amsterdam's most architecturally distinctive canal-side addresses. Chef Arvid Schmidt's approach skews heavily plant-based, earning recognition from the Smart Green Guide and a White Star listing on Star Wine List. The result is a restaurant that reads the city's progressive dining instincts clearly and places them in a setting with genuine historical weight.

Also recognized by Star Wine List, We're Smart World

Flore

Amsterdam, Netherlands

2 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Housed in Hotel de L'Europe on the Amstel, Flore holds two Michelin stars and a top ranking in the We're Smart Green Guide for its 'Botanic Menu' built from 80 different plants. Chef Bas van Kranen works with biodynamic growers and seasonal Dutch produce, shifting between North Sea ingredients in summer and game in autumn. The wine list runs to 1,400 selections across 9,000 bottles in inventory.

Also recognized by Falstaff, Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List, We're Smart World

Gebr. Hartering

Amsterdam, Netherlands

In Amsterdam's quiet Lastage district, a short walk from Central Station, Gebr. Hartering has built a reputation as one of the city's dependable French-inflected neighbourhood restaurants. The Michelin Plate holder runs a short, market-driven menu that changes with ingredient availability, placing it in a mid-price tier where cooking quality routinely outpaces the bill.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List

Gitane

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Gitane Amsterdam holds consecutive Michelin Bib Gourmand recognition (2024 and 2025) alongside a Star Wine List White Star, placing it among the more consistently awarded value-tier Mediterranean tables in the city.

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Hotel de Goudfazant

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Hotel de Goudfazant is not a hotel, and there is no golden pheasant. What it is, in Amsterdam Noord's industrial waterfront, is a vast converted warehouse where vintage cars share floor space with dining tables, and the kitchen turns out food that has earned the place a loyal following well beyond the neighbourhood. Book ahead and cross the IJ.

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Lastage

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Chef Rogier van Dam runs a focused evening service Wednesday through Sunday, drawing a crowd that blends committed wine drinkers with diners looking for something warmer and more personal than the city's €€€€ tier. Opinionated About Dining flagged it as Recommended in 2023.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List

Lazuur

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Lazuur invites informed diners into a quietly luxurious world where culinary artistry, intimate ambiance, and meticulous hospitality converge. The kitchen weaves seasonal ingredients into expressive, modern dishes that balance purity and surprise, while the dining room glows with understated elegance—soft light, refined textures, and polished pacing. With a sommelier-led cellar and limited, sought-after seating, Lazuur transforms dinner into a rarefied ritual of taste and time, designed for those who appreciate nuance, discretion, and the lingering pleasure of a memorable evening.

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Mont Blanc

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Amsterdam's Savoyard dining scene is narrow, which makes Mont Blanc on Govert Flinckstraat an address worth knowing. Carrying consecutive Michelin Plates in 2024 and 2025, plus White Star recognition from Star Wine List, it operates at the €€€€ tier with a wine program that punches above its neighbourhood footprint..

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MOS

Amsterdam, Netherlands

1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

MOS occupies a pointed position at the tip of Amsterdam's IJdok peninsula, where IJ waterfront views frame a creative French menu built around vegetable-led thinking and technically precise cooking. Chef Egon van Hoof works a price tier below Amsterdam's highest-end tasting tables, making this one of the more accessible entries into serious ingredient-driven French technique in the city. The wine list runs to 705 selections with particular depth in Burgundy, France, Italy, and Germany.

Also recognized by Star Wine List, We're Smart World

Nazka

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Nazka brings the plant-forward cooking traditions of Lima's most celebrated kitchens to Amsterdam's De Pijp neighbourhood, with a Michelin Plate and inclusion in the We're Smart Green Guide underscoring its credentials. Chef Koosh Kothari's menu draws on Central, Merito, and Kjolle as reference points, producing Peruvian-inflected cuisine that is as precise as it is ingredient-driven. The wine list matches the food in seriousness.

Also recognized by Star Wine List, We're Smart World

Perceel

Amsterdam, Netherlands

1 Michelin star

Set in a converted old town hall on the dyke of Capelle aan den IJssel, Perceel earns its place on the Opinionated About Dining Europe rankings through cooking that tracks seasonal and natural rhythms closely. Chef Jos Grootscholten pairs garden herbs with sharply conceived flavour contrasts, and a kombucha-based drinks program extends that philosophy to the glass.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List, We're Smart World

REM Restaurant

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Set on a former offshore broadcasting platform on the IJ waterway, REM Restaurant brings an unusual address to Amsterdam's plant-forward dining conversation. The kitchen runs a Vegetarian Chef menu that signals genuine ambition, earning a White Star recognition from Star Wine List in May 2025. The cooking shows originality and the location alone rewards the journey, with room to develop further as the program matures.

Also recognized by Star Wine List, We're Smart World

RIJKS®

Amsterdam, Netherlands

1 Michelin star

Inside the Rijksmuseum, RIJKS® holds a Michelin star and an Opinionated About Dining ranking, built on Joris Bijdendijk's programme of Dutch-product cooking shaped by the country's colonial and maritime history. The kitchen is serious about vegetables, the wine list earned a Star Wine List White Star, and the room runs lunch and dinner Tuesday through Sunday at one of Amsterdam's more considered creative addresses.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List, The Best Chef, We're Smart World

Rijsel

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Rijsel holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand and an Opinionated About Dining Casual Europe ranking (#143 in 2025), making it one of Amsterdam's most consistently recognised bistros at the €€ price point. Open Tuesday through Friday evenings on Marcusstraat in Amsterdam-Oost, it operates a tight dinner-only schedule that keeps tables in high demand. Book well ahead.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List

Roux Amsterdam

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Roux Amsterdam sits on Westerstraat in the Jordaan, carrying a Star Wine List White Star recognition that signals a wine program serious enough to anchor the dining experience. The kitchen works within a neighbourhood that has moved decisively upmarket over the past decade, placing Roux in a competitive tier where sourcing credibility and cellar depth matter as much as the plate itself.

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Scheepskameel

Amsterdam, Netherlands

On the former Dutch Navy premises along Kattenburgerstraat, Scheepskameel occupies a high-ceilinged heritage building where an open kitchen sends out BBQ vegetables, raw fish, and classic roasts to a room that feels as much civic hall as restaurant. A Michelin Bib Gourmand holder in both 2024 and 2025, it sits in Amsterdam's mid-tier casual bracket and ranks #709 on Opinionated About Dining Europe — a credible position for a kitchen with clear, produce-led priorities.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List, We're Smart World

Sinck

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Named after the original architect of Amsterdam's canal network, it arrived during an unusually turbulent period for the city's hospitality sector and has since built a reputation as one of the more serious wine addresses in the neighbourhood.

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Spectrum

Amsterdam, Netherlands

2 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Spectrum holds two Michelin stars and a La Liste score of 92 points, operating from the Waldorf Astoria Amsterdam on Herengracht four evenings a week. Chef Sidney Schutte's kitchen places vegetables at the structural centre of its tasting menus, drawing on training lineages that run through De Librije and the late Roger Souvereyns's Scholteshof. The wine list, directed by Cas Kratz, spans 945 selections with particular depth in Burgundy and Bordeaux.

Also recognized by Falstaff, La Liste, Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List

The Lobby Fizeaustraat

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

A neighbourhood restaurant inside Hotel V's Fizeaustraat outpost, The Lobby earned the Star Wine List #1 ranking in 2024, signalling a wine program that punches well above its casual-neighbourhood format. Run by a team with multi-generational Amsterdam roots, it occupies a 1970s-inflected urban space in Amsterdam's eastern fringe, where the bar program and local atmosphere carry as much weight as the kitchen.

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The Lobby Nesplein

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

On a narrow medieval street running parallel to the Amstel, The Lobby Nesplein has earned recognition from Star Wine List with a White Star designation, signalling a wine program taken seriously in a city where that bar is higher than it might appear. The address on Nes 49 places it in one of Amsterdam's older theatre districts, where the dining pace tends toward the unhurried.

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The White Room by Jacob Jan Boerma

Amsterdam, Netherlands

1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence

Inside the Anantara Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky on Dam Square, The White Room operates at the summit of Amsterdam's fine-dining tier, serving modern French cuisine in a room that dates to 1885. Chef Tristan de Boer leads a kitchen that draws on Dutch produce, citrus-forward technique, and classical French structure, backed by a wine list of 6,230 bottles with particular depth in Burgundy.

Also recognized by Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List

Troef

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Positioned at the €€€ tier, it sits above the bistro register without reaching the rarified pricing of Ciel Bleu or Bolenius. For a city that rarely produces this level of considered French cooking outside the canal-belt centre, the address in Amsterdam South-East carries real editorial weight.

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Veneur

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Veneur occupies a handsome canal-side address on Weteringschans, where wooden panelling and ornate mouldings set a tone that sits closer to a Parisian brasserie than an Amsterdam bistro. The kitchen, led by alumni of Michelin-starred De Juwelier, runs a product-driven menu built around fire, grilled meat, and pronounced flavour — black pudding with grey shrimp, pigeon with cherry glaze, rabbit with morels. The wine list earns its own attention.

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Vermeer

Amsterdam, Netherlands

A French Contemporary address on Prins Hendrikkade, Vermeer holds a Michelin Plate and a 2025 Opinionated About Dining ranking of #533 in Europe. The kitchen, now under chef Sebastian Baquero Garces following the long tenure of Chris Naylor, operates Wednesday through Saturday from 6pm. Vegetables remain central to the cooking, positioned within Amsterdam's mid-to-upper tier of contemporary dining.

Also recognized by La Liste, Opinionated About Dining, Star Wine List, We're Smart World

Watergang

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Watergang sits on Weteringstraat in Amsterdam's canal belt, holding consecutive Michelin Plates in 2024 and 2025 and a White Star recognition from Star Wine List.

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Zoldering

Amsterdam, Netherlands

1 Michelin star

A Michelin-starred bistro on Utrechtsestraat, Zoldering pairs revamped French cooking with one of Amsterdam's most serious wine programs. Open since 2019, the room occupies a converted canal-era building with high ceilings and the unhurried tempo of an old Amsterdam café. Three sommeliers, two wine lists, and a vegetable-forward menu built around produce from the Dutch seasons make it a consistent reference point for the city's mid-to-upper dining tier.

Also recognized by Star Wine List, We're Smart World