Of course Vegan Junk Food Bar’s Kebabi was the first place dedicated to vegan kebab in Amsterdam. They do a good job, it’s delicious, but the setting is not like a real kebabplace. Helin’s Groente Döner IS a real kebabplace, not fully vegan alas, but they do allow their vegan kebab do be the star on the menu! Read more
Originally started out as an idea for a vegan store, then turned into a cafe. Oliver Green is the brainchild of Stefan and Merel. They started eating plantbased a few years ago for health and environmental reasons. But they felt Amsterdam is lacking places where you can get healthy vegan food in a convenient way, and so, decided to create that place themselves! Read more
Long time favourite of mine for the cozy atmosphere and nice selection of beers, Café de Tuin is located in the Jordaan area, around the corner of Westerstraat. Recently they added a few vegan options to their menu! Read more
A few years ago Willemijn van Wenum said goodbye to her career and started doing what she loved to do most: baking vegan pastry! Starting out with selling cakes to various restaurants, she opened a half year long pop-up store end 2018. A year later she opened her own real location of Willem-Pie in the space of a former bakery, enabling increased production and the possibility of selling it to people directly. Read more
Time for a recap of 2019! Yo, 2018 was a good year for veganism in Amsterdam and 2019 no less. More options in restaurants and supermarkets, making it easier for people to be vegan. Also, the increased visibility of a vegan lifestyle helps to normalise it which is great, as dealing with social situations as a vegan is not always easy.
At the moment Happy Cow lists 374 vegan friendly restaurants in Amsterdam, of which 39 are fully vegan! Albert Heijn added little vegan signs (see pic above) to various (not all) vegan products in the supermarket, this is huge. Many big nationwide companies are currently working on vegan options, this year for example Hema, Ikea, Multivlaai, Subway and Bakker Bart came with a vegan meal.
The changes in Amsterdam have not gone unnoticed, newspaper NRC highlighted several developments in a big article last summer, also quoting yours truly. But hey let’s have a look at this year’s developments! Read more
Finding vegan pancakes on a restaurant menu in Amsterdam used to be rare, but nowadays there are PLENTY options! A few hip pancake places opened up which of course have vegan options (can’t open a new hip place without it) but also traditional Amsterdam pancake places all of a sudden realised you CAN make a pancake batter without using milk and eggs.
So broadly speaking you can choose from vegan and vegan friendly-places, new hip pancakes places, or traditional pancake places. And then there are some others. Most places offer either American (thick and fluffy) or Dutch style (larger and thinner) pancakes. We found 13 places with vegan pancakes on the menu, check ’em out! Read more
Passing Wibautstraat you might have seen people lining up in front of a particular bakery store, especially around lunchtime. That’s Bakkerij Hartog, which has been around for over 100 years. Their bread is famous in Amsterdam and with good reason, it’s probably the best bread in town! Read more
Whoa lots of vegan pastry at organic store/deli Henny’s Homemade. At Rozengracht, who knew! Muffin, croissant, coconut macaroon, poppy seed crumble pie, hemp cookie, samosa… (not all vegan pastry is indicated as such on the card). Also open until LATE every day. Read more
New!! Pop-up takeaway by vegan bakery Nono Cakes at Winkelcentrum Ganzenpoort (Zuid-Oost). 😍 All kinds of pastry (donuts, tompouce, cake etc.) and even savoury stuff as well like a roll with vegan pom or vegan cheese onion puff. Will be there prob until summer next year or longer! Read more
Photos of yesterday’s Official Animal Rights March Amsterdam! Afterwards we had a short conversation with organizers Linda Guijt and Amadesha Assie:
Linda: “We read on Facebook about the march in London and thought, hey we should have this one here as well. Then we just took the initiative and organised it last year ourselves.”
Amadesha: “We thought it was a success and wanted to keep on doing it. We got noticed and people heard the message. We chose to put ‘End Speciesism’ on the banner, because a lot of people don’t know that word. So that when people think ‘Oh what’s that?’, that finally they will get the idea that it is really a form of discrimination, that we think there are humans and animals, and animals are worth less, even though humans are also animals. Read more