Cafe

A Cafe in Amsterdam.

And the Cafe Cat, to keep the mouses away.

Cafe

A Cafe in Amsterdam in old style.

With a cat to keep the mouses away

 

Cafe

 A cafe in Amsterdam.

And the cafe cat to keep the mouses away.

Cafe

Hubby in an Amsterdam pub in the Jordan neighborhood.

And a look outside.

Cafe

The interior of  the "Vlaamsch Broodhuys" in Amsterdam,  a delicious cafe, lunchroom and shop where you can eat your heart out with tasty pastries, salads and bread.

So did SC. 

In the Pub

I am not a City Daily Photo follower but I use the theme  "Coffee Houses and Cafes" today I see at other blogs. This is me in 2014 at a typical  Irish Pub. On the table is no Guinness Beer but an Irish Coffee. 

And these two I shot secretly from my seat.

Cafe

After a cold walk in Amsterdam last week, we ended in Cafe Hesp to warm up with tea and home made apple-pie. It is an authentic cafe from 1890, popular by jounalists, but with the moving of the daily papers to another part of the city, is was rather quiet now.

Weekend Reflections

A view at the canal from the cafe where we had lunch in the city Utrecht.

And this is the lunchroom where I had delicious crispy bread with italian salami and cream cheese, mmmm.

See for more weekend reflections here

Starbucks

Americans have discovered Amsterdam. After the opening of the "biggest" Apple store in Europe, we now have the "biggest" Starbucks cafe in Europe. I don't know if we really must be happy with it. One of the most awful things in the US is a coffee in a paper cup in which you can see the bottom. We call that "ditchwater". The only time we had a rather nice coffee there was in a Starbucks cafe I must admit. But to open such a big american cafe in the centre of  Amsterdam is rather pretentious as we have so many very good cafes to serve a coffee.

This was the opening day and it was so crowded, there was a queque outside, everybody wanted to have a look. The cafe is situated below streetlevel in a former safe of a bankbuilding. I read an article in the newspaper that Starbucks had made an analysis about the dutch way of drinking coffee for a year! The conclusion is they decided to serve the coffee not only in paper cups but also in real cups, to make a long table in the middle where people can chat with each other. They made Delft Blue tiles at the pillars and a wall with inner tubes of bikes. Everybody happy?

Festive lights

When evening falls the cafe's in Amsterdam look very inviting with the festive lights.