Amsterdam’s De Pijp neighbourhood has been called the city’s coolest neighbourhood. We wanted to explore the district and see what it has to offer.
We started out in Sarphati Park near one of the main roads called Ferdinand Bolstraat. Bol was a Dutch painter with a very famous teacher: Rembrandt! Maybe you’ve heard of him. The De Pijp area has an artistic heritage so it makes sense that this main artery represents that. De Pijp is also Amsterdam’s Latin quarter.
We stopped for a hot chocolate at a cute place called Cafe Blonde. They made the hot chocolate using a type of fair trade chocolate you see all around Amsterdam called Tony Chocolonely’s. Cafe Blonde is also a great place to buy gifts and souvenirs. With our delicious drinks in hand, we walked on to the well-known Albert Cuypmarkt. This market has multicultural roots as a lot of workers from Spain, Turkey, Morocco, and Suriname moved to this area, bringing their delicious cuisines with them. There are hundreds of stalls selling all sorts of things: food, furniture, flowers, clothing, and more.
For lunch, we visited a restaurant called Bazar which is located in a building that used to be a church. We shared a huge breakfast and I especially enjoyed the fresh mint tea. Marc really wanted to visit a building where Mondrian (of the Bauhaus movement) lived and where he founded the De Stijl movement.
We ended the day at the former Heineken Brewery which is now open for tours - called the ‘Heineken Experience.’ It was the first Heineken brewery built in 1864 and, while they don’t brew here anymore, it seemed like an appropriate last stop given how world-famous this Dutch beer has become.
Did you enjoy this informal neighbourhood profile vlog exploring De Pijp? Did anything in particular stand out? Leave a comment and let me know!
Subtitles available in English, Dutch and Spanish! Click the 'CC' button (bottom right).
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