New Restaurants in Amsterdam to Know in 2026
Amsterdam has just joined Better Taste, and it arrives in the middle of a good run. The past year's openings lean away from spectacle and toward the thing this city does best — rooms with a neighbourhood feel, run by people who cook well and don't oversell it. A few are worth crossing a canal, or the IJ, to reach.
What follows are the openings that have settled into themselves and are worth building an evening around, grouped roughly by where they sit. It skips launch-week hype, hotel PR and the reopenings dressed up as debuts.
The centre's confident debuts
Two very different arrivals anchor the middle of town. BLIK Bistro & Bar (Reguliersdwarsstraat 28, opened September 2025) is three-Michelin-star chef Jacob Jan Boerma going casual in the former Lion Noir — top-kitchen precision in a bistro register, the line run day to day by Quinten Schaffer, with a garden terrace out back.
Behind Dam Square, Bouillon d'Amsterdam (Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 176–180, opened March 2026) borrows the cheap-and-cheerful Parisian bouillon format and gives it a local accent: small dishes from a few euros, a Kesbeke pickle on the side, and steak frites built on Die Port van Cleve's numbered steak, served in the building since 1874. It was busy enough to open a second branch within two months.
Day-to-night wine rooms
Two rooms built to hold a whole evening. In the Jordaan, Schout-bij-Nacht (Westerstraat 76–78, opened May 2025) — the name means "rear admiral," literally "sheriff at night" — cooks no-nonsense seasonal French–Mediterranean food by day and tips into a vinyl-and-DJ bar as it gets late, artwork changing on the walls.
Over in Oud-Zuid, Franzen (Johannes Verhulststraat 64, opened August 2025) is the first solo room from Jesse Franzen, who opened it before turning thirty — a "living room for Amsterdam-Zuid" with a busy bar, a serious wine list, and a precise, French-leaning dinner menu.
The new guard: west, east and north
The more adventurous cooking is spreading out from the centre. In Oud-West, SILK (Bilderdijkstraat 140, opened June 2025) is the first restaurant from the Salvo bakery and nNea pizzeria team — a bold Chinese–Italian, Silk Road–minded kitchen of shared plates, natural wine and cocktails. In Watergraafsmeer, Roef (Middenweg 35, opened September 2025) is named for owner Eshwin Boetting's grandfather, a Drenthe farmer; the Dutch–French sharing menu is backed by the restaurant's own vegetable garden.
And across the IJ in Noord, Camarat (at the Chateau Amsterdam urban winery, opened October 2025) serves what it calls "New Noord Cuisine" — French–Scandinavian plates from a chef who trained at Noma — in a raw, high-ceilinged room beside the maturing wine barrels, before a DJ turns it into a dance floor.
How to keep up
Amsterdam is new to the catalogue, and a young city page moves fast. That's the point of Better Taste: the Amsterdam edit is curated and kept current, so you carry it in your pocket rather than bookmarking a post — filter it by restaurant or wine bar, and save the rooms you mean to get to.
Start with the openings above, then browse the full Amsterdam catalogue.