Madam @ Amsterdam North

My review on Madam @Amsterdam North

Bleu @ Amsterdam Center

The Food You will not be dissapointed. We’ve had dinner here twice now and both times were wonderful. The tastes are well balanced and everything we had was delicious! <!–more–> The Decor The brasserie is small and cozy yet classy and stylish. We liked the retro and modern feel of the colors and we particularly…

Comptoir Libanais @ Utrecht

The Food I mean…what’s not to like about Lebanese food done right? The presentation was really nice, the products were definately fresh and the taste was exactly as it should be: Perfect!

15 Tips for a Stressfree Dinner Party

A couple of weeks ago, I went to a friends dinner party and I had such a great time, so I decided to have more dinner parties and to not be so stressed out about it (not everything has to be perfect) I think the reason that people have less and less dinnerparties (in Amsterdam)…

The Matcha Bar @ Amsterdam (Albert Cuyp)

As you may know, I’m mildly obsessed with matcha (read here and here). So when I heard about The Matcha Bar opening up in Amsterdam, guess who showed up? The Food Like the name says; everything in here is about matcha. Think, matcha cookies, matcha latte, matcha tea, matcha cake… There aren’t any lunch options;…

Top 20 Things You Need To Know Before Traveling To Japan

Remember when I posted about the 25 places you needed to visit? (click here to see post) Since then I was lucky enough to check one item of my bucketlist (click here to see post).  Sooo… we went to japan for our honeymoon! (Remember when he asked last year? See here) I had already long been in…

HET WARENHUIS @ Haarlemmerbuurt, Amsterdam

Getting up early on the weekend is soooooo hard and has never been my strong suit. But I honestly do like the feeling of getting stuff done in the weekends. So to make it less difficult to get up early we have decided to have an incentive. And since I love experiencing new things and…

PLUK @ Amsterdam Center (9 Streets)

Looking for a place to have your cake and eat it too? And do a little shopping while you’re at it? Look no more! PLUK has 2 locations (here and here) in the 9 streets area, so if one is full, you could just walk over to the other one. Perfect, right? Even more perfect…

Dignita @ Amsterdam East

The Food The food at Dignita is nothing short of a little party on your plate. The ingredients mix really well together, every plate looked like a little piece of art and then you get to have it taste….delicious! The Decor The decor is very bistro with a twist. They have a really beautiful woodlike bar…

Easy Peasy Paella Recipe

This one is as quick and easy as yo’ momma… just kiddin’ …but it is really easy…and so is yo’ momma….I’m sorry I’ll quit. But really, it only took me about  30 minutes. Now, I am neither Spanish, nor do I pretend to have great knowledge of the Spanish tradional cuisine. However, I do know…

The 100 Happy Days Challenge

So, remember when I said I would start the #100happydays challenge? (see here)  Well, I didn´t make the challenge. I didn´t even make half the challenge. I already quit on the 23rd day…#loseralert I guess I was afraid thatpeople thought that food was the only thing that made me happy. Definately not the ONLY thing,…

Bar Botanique @ Amsterdam East

On a rainy Sunday afternoon The Portuguese and I were looking for a place to eat. Unable to decide on something, we went from Amsterdam West to Amsterdam North to finally settling on something in Amsterdam East… Luckily we were by car 🙂 I’ve seen some pictures on Instagram of this bar and I thought…

15 Questions To Ask Your Wedding Venue

  So after this happened, we started planning…. But where to start?  I started combing through the (fun) jungle that is Pinterest and found very helpful tips and lists. Oh how I love lists! (just look at this one or this one or this one and of course this one) What to do first, when you get…