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!
Since a couple of years the pastry by Nono Cakes was already available in various shops and cafés in town and online order. This summer pop-up Cakestix opened which was a collab together with Nono Cakes. But this location enables owner Benghi to offer for the first time all true Nono Cakes pastry to the public.
Located just a stone’s throw away from metro Ganzenhoef.
Nono Cakes
Harriët Freezerstraat 108a
Website
Open:
Wed-Fri 11:00 – 18:30
Sat 11:00 – 17:30
Sun 12:00 – 17:00
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
The vegan movement is gaining momentum, also activism wise! Next to smaller outreach actions happening every so often, we just had a massive Cube of Truth in May, and the March Against All Slaugherhouses in June. In the coming months several other big demo’s are taking place, check out our overview! Read more
For those with a sweeeeet tooth!! Cakestix – new cake pop-up store by Dr Oetker X Nono Cakes (one of the best vegan bakers in Amsterdam!). 🍰 All vegan except half of the toppings! You customize them yourself and for some reason they pierce it with a wooden stick (some kind of Instagram hype). Read more
Wow no shortage of vegan options in Amsterdam. And soon some more places are opening, while others are expanding at a new location. Vegan sushi anyone? Check out what’s coming! Read more
“De tijd dat veganisten blij mochten zijn als ze een tomatensoep met patatjes geserveerd kregen, is voorbij. Waren er vijf jaar geleden nog slechts 45.000 vegans in Nederland, volgens de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Veganisme (NVV) zijn er nu al zo’n 121.000 mensen die geen dierlijke producten als vlees, zuivel, eieren en leer gebruiken. En daar speelt de horeca op in: in Amsterdam zijn er nu zo’n 35 restaurants die uitsluitend vegan gerechten serveren. Nog zo’n tweehonderd horecagelegenheden bieden ‘veganistische opties’.”
Big article in the Amsterdam supplement of national newspaper NRC. Featuring Deer Mama, Mr. & Mrs. Watson, Vegabond, The Dutch Weed Burger Joint and Vegan Amsterdam – aka yours truly! Read the article here.
Inspired by similar student associations in cities like Gent and recently Groningen, a group of students in Amsterdam decided to establish the Vegan Student Association Amsterdam!
According to their mission statement, it was founded with the aim of “increasing the visibility of the vegan movement and start a conversation about animal rights, building at the same time a network of like-minded students. We offer support to anyone interested in approaching the vegan lifestyle.”
Their first event will be Sunday next week, a vegan picnic at Vondelpark on Sunday June 2nd! More info here.
Today at Dam Square, 24 h non-stop vegan outreach by about a thousand vegan activists from Anonymous for the Voiceless!
Activists position themselves in a square shape, the ‘Cube of Truth’, showing footage of animals in the industry. Other activists have conversations with curious bypassers, motivating them to try out a vegan diet.
The action named ‘One Dam Day’ continues throughout the night until tomorrow at noon. Read more