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Bright, modern and full of greenery, this veggie caférestaurant is 90 per cent organic. Perfect for a drink, a quick snack or a hearty meal.

In a pretty alley behind the Nieuwe Kerk, downstairs a caféand upstairs a restaurant providing Breton cuisine.

Open since 1670, this historic brown café, with its lefty past and church pews, was a regular haunt of radical journalists, writers and intellectuals in the Provo-fuelled 1960s.

Formerly a bank, cash is the only currency at this modern grand-café. Simple sandwiches and soups downstairs, delicious meals upstairs. The waterside terrace is the place to be in summer.

Art meets alcohol at this large, rustic-style bar, a popular hangout for students and creative types. Food served till 10pm.

This small lounge bar, with its guest DJs, is just the place to get into the mood for a long night out on the town.

Australian-run, typically English tearoom-style café that serves great breakfasts and high teas. Service can be painfully slow, but worth the wait.

There’s a decadent lounge bar in the basement of this painfully hip restaurant. Dress to impress if you want to get in.

Elvis, Versace and John Wayne ate at this sprawling 300-seater restaurant. Each room has a theme, including the Rembrandt Room. Today it touts New Dutch cuisine, using mostly organic ingredients.

With wooded warmth and charm, this relaxed corner café has picture windows overlooking the wide cobbled bridge of the Singel.