Greenwoods

my favorite place to go every time i’m in amsterdam. small quaint restaurant right on the canal. lovely outdoor seating on a nice day. excellent food, coffees and ambiance.

Very small but robust breakfast. More than a few tourist but you don’t notice it. Make sure to come early as it fills quickly and the portions are large. Nice view of the canal.

We were looking for somewhere to have breakfast in the early afternoon. A quick Unilocal search turned up this absolute gem. The staff were great, atmosphere was very cosy and in a quieter area, and of course the food was delicious! I had the salmon breakfast and my partner had the vegetarian breakfast, and both were delicious. The salmon was amazingly fresh.
Such a great find in a city with so many options!

We went on a Saturday afternoon. It is a tiny place, so you might end up waiting for a table. They have very warm blankets for you to bundle up and wait at the tables outside. The food was delicious, and the staff was very friendly. It was worth the wait.

Best hot chocolate ever! Americans should definitely visit here. Food was perfect, and picturesque. Breakfast served all day, and try their Full English breakfast. Very cozy spot near Anne Frank house.

This little tea room has one of the best sandwiches I have ever tasted:) No, but seriously. They are great at what they do and even the simplest sounding things taste amazing! They make and serve good food. And they have many organic options, too in case you’re interested.
They don’t (if i remember correctly) serve alcohol, so maybe you should note that. But the outside scenery is nice as well as the interior decoration of the place. I loved it and it makes a great place for a lunching option.

I had a really nice meal here. Especially the lamb burger is really good. You get a big piece of lamb meat with a large chunk of tasty blue cheese and caramelised onions on top. Served with potatoes and a delicious mayonnaise.
The prices are really fair and the place is both popular and small so the wait can be a bit long but if you have the time it’s well worth it.

Had lunch here on my final day in Amsterdam. The wait wasn’t bad, all in all about 10 minutes. Seating is tight inside, but I didn’t mind. I ordered the quiche and salad and it was delicious! So fresh! Would highly recommend this place for lunch. We didn’t partake in their desserts, but they looked amazing. We will definitely be back next time we are in Amsterdam.

Not very big place, very crowded, but wow the food made everything worth it! Seems I don’t have to go to the UK anymore for some good British food!
Be prepared to wait for your meal. But then again, you’ll be hungrier when you receive your food and it will taste even better ;)
After the eggs benedict (I asked for bacon instead of ham), which was exquisite and looked picture perfect, I wasn’t hungry anymore but was craving a scone, as you do… It did not take long for the waitress to serve it, I was quite disappointed that it wasn’t heated but I soon noticed it was so good it didn’t need being served warm.
Too bad it’s not the healthiest option for brunch or lunch, otherwise I would definitely go there more often!

This place came recommend by Sunhead of1617 BnB and it didn’t disappoint. We had the eggs Benedict (one with ham and the eggs royal with smoked salmon) and it was very delicious! Great little place for all day breakfast and lunch.

Friendly little neighborhood café with organic chicken and eggs. Veggie juice options and healthy food, high tea, and other little niceties make it cozy. It is a great laid back spot on the canal, and although it was mainly foreigners it didn’t have a touristy feel at all.

Very fun quaint atmosphere, and very friendly staff. Great tea selections, of course you can also get any coffee option. Eggs bendy turned out perfect and my friend loved the soda bread

I came here with my family for a brunch on a friday morning at 10. Luckily we made a reservation early enough, the place was fully booked and a long line was waiting outside!
The place is small and you haven’t that much space. But it’s really lovely decorated and you can see directly into the narrow kitchen.
They have an all day breakfast menu:
I had the «Eggs Greenwoods»: Two poached eggs, cottage cheese, avocado and organic chicken on our homemade soda bread, garnished with fresh herbs. It was really delicious!!! Definitely to recommend!
The staff is friendly and the prices are fair (10 € for the eggs greenwoods).
The only minus point is, that the door was open the whole stay, so the people waiting in line could enter. It rained and was cold outdoors, so there was a constant draft behind my back…

The BEST brunch place in Amsterdam.
I went with a friend around 11am on a Saturday. There was a line out the door but it was definitely worth the wait.
The restaurant is located along Singel, one of the most beautiful canals in Amsterdam and definitely less touristy than the Prisengracht. I recommend sitting outside because the atmosphere is spectacular. The inside of the restaurant is a bit cramped and dark but it seems cozy.
I do not suggest going with a large group of friends. The restaurant is too small to accommodate large parties and I witnessed a group of eight struggle to find seating together.
The food is absolutely unforgettable. I’ve never been a poached egg fan, but Greenwoods completely changed my mind. I ordered the Eggs Royale (Two poached eggs with smoked salmon on toasted English muffin, topped with Hollandaise sauce and garnished with fresh dill) with sautéed mushrooms. It was the best breakfast I have ever had. My meal was unforgettable.
A few days later, I went to a Greenwoods location on Keizersgracht and I was a bit disappointed. The atmosphere was equally as lovely, but my food was not as amazing as I had expected. I ordered the same dish I mentioned earlier, but it was not the same. There was far less Hollandaise sauce, my English muffin was too thin, and I only got four whole mushrooms in a small cup. I assume it was a bad day in the kitchen, but I still recommend going to the Singel location over the Keizergracht location.
Greenwoods on Singel is an amazing spot for brunch and I wish I was in Amsterdam long enough to return for high tea!

After hours of wandering around to find the perfect spot for a late breakfast, I decided on Greenwood, due to the high reviews. It’s a cute, little café with 10 tables indoors and 6 tables outdoors.
Coming to the end of a breakfast rush, I managed to grab the only available table and I was greeted politely by a lovely waitress. I start by ordering a soy latte, the presentation wasn’t the best but it came out quickly and tasted great !
They were happy to cater my request to swap the organic chicken for grilled tomato on the Greenhouse Breakfast. The portions are quite generous, which makes the price quite reasonable — average: £9,95 per meal — I would prefer smaller dishes though.
A great experience overall, would recommend this café for breakfast or lunch ! #4Noms.
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Mon brunch préféré à Amsterdam!
Devenu obligatoire dans ma check list lorsque je me rends dans cette ville que j’adore. Découvert grâce à une amie qui le fréquente depuis des années.
Et pour cause: tout y est parfait, de la décoration, en passant par l’accueil et surtout la cuisine.
Un petit restaurant avec une capacité d’accueil de 22 personnes maximum qui propose des plats simples mais délicieux fait maison. J’aime beaucoup également l’éthique bio, avec la possibilité de commander les plats sans gluten, sans lactose ou toutes autres allergies.
Un vrai coup de coeur et comme tout ce qui est bon se mérite, né vous laissez pas décourager par queue devant la porte. La serveuse vient régulièrement vous dire dans combien de temps vous serez pris en charge.
Petite note, ils servent d’excellents thés, du café façon hollandaise ou des expressos, des jus de fruits frais mais pas d’alcool!

Small, quaint breakfast nook close to the central station and next to a canal. Good location. Friendly staff. Very cozy and comfortable. Food was good but absolutely nothing special with small portions. Slightly pricy given the portions you get as well.

What a cute spot for some breakfast or tea! There are some spots near the canal where you can sit an enjoy a beautiful day, but if there are no seats outside, enjoy a cozy seat inside with the friendly service.
Find a pot of tea and just sit back and enjoy the company you brought with you. But if you are hungry, the eggs are so tasty! Anything with salmon was super yummy as well. The staff was fairly attentive and was available whenever we needed them. Oh, and try the soda bread… soooo good!
Definitely on the list to have a brunch with the hubby one day because I seem to never be able to find a brunch place when I want one!

My husband found this place for a Valentine’s Day spot for us to go with our 18-​month old girl, that also served eggs benedict until late in the afternoon. He was spot on about them being child friendly, if a bit claustrophobically small, and they did serve eggs benedict until late into the afternoon, instead of running out of food by 1pm as is sadly common at many restaurants in this town.
The eggs benedict though, what a weird and disappointing experience. The sauce was great, I wanted to have more of it! And all the ingredients tasted great, but for some reason the english muffin at the base was so rock hard, probably from over toasting, that I couldn’t cut through it with my knife. In retrospect I should have sent it back, but I was too distracted with baby wrangling to think of that. Instead I soldiered on by picking up the eggs benedict like an open-​faced sandwich and eating it with my hands. That went ok except for the part where the ham on the english muffin kept holding on by a string to the ham in my mouth every time I took a bite, so I ended up with this string of ham flossing my two front teeth every time I took a bite, and I had to manually break the meat off from my mouth with my fingers so I could pull the eggs benedict away from my face. And the english muffin was so immensely dry that it felt like all the moisture was being sucked out of my body, and into the black hole that was the english muffin’s nooks and crannies. I don’t care how good the sauce is, when I feel like I’m being parched from the inside by the food I’m eating, I just can’t enjoy more subtle things like sauce flavor.
I tried to quench my thirst with a very expensive pot of white tea, which had the lovely apricot flavor notes that they advertised, but it wasn’t enough. It was also weird that they give you a timer so you know how long to steep the tea, but they don’t give you any way to remove the tea leaves from the tea pot when the tea is ready so you don’t end up with one perfectly steeped pot and then everything after is more and more bitter due to the tea leaves being in the water too long.
My husband enjoyed his club sandwich, but I thought it was so odd they serve the sandwich with the same Lays potato chips you buy at the grocery store. I mean you have a kitchen there, can’t you make fries?
Overall there were a lot of things this place did right, including decently fast service, but the things they did wrong were so wrong, I am not going out of my way to come back. If I do end up there again I’ll give the eggs benedict another chance, and if it’s still messed up, I’ll give them a good talking to.

So well-​known and adorable that you need a strategy to get a table, especially on weekends. We contrived to arrive a minute before opening time, thus guaranteeing a spot. But you’re probably not as devious as we are.
It was worth it. The scrambled eggs are creamy, the smoked salmon silky-​smooth. The soda bread toast really is that good, and you can’t go wrong with any coffee they offer. The staff are lovely and friendly.
Still, if you can’t arrive first thing in the morning, consider coming at an off hour. Even better, come on an off day. Waiting for warmer weather is probably your best option, as the canal-​side seating effectively doubles the space.

This place is verging on being «too popular», as we were there on a Saturday afternoon and had to squeeze into a pretty overcrowded room; there was constantly a line outside for the entire hour we were there; and the waiters ran around frenzied and clearly stressed out to the max. Then again, what else would you expect from a place that comes up as the top result on Tripadvisor when one googles «Best English Breakfast in Amsterdam?»… I imagine this place would be amazing on a weekday morning not in tourist season. It’s kind of made to be relaxing, and that’s difficult to achieve in the aforementioned circumstances.
Nonetheless, despite all of these annoyances, we managed to have an incredible Saturday brunch here. The food is great (we had the full breakfast — yum, although doesn’t come with potatoes?! and the eggs benny — yum yum, but the hollandaise seemed to be out of a can), the prices are great, and the staff both speak English and are very friendly. Oh and they give you a massive pot of tea for two people for € 4.
So basically this place is great, but try to go on an «off hour» if you can.

Greenwoods est un salon de thé, situé au bord d’un canal, en plein centre ville. C’est vraiment Tooop !! Ils font salon de thé mais pas seulement, brunchs et restauration rapide également !!
Sur notre weekend BruxDam ;-) nous avions encore un peu d’argent ^^ et nous avions envie de faire un vrai petit déjeuner pour la grosse journée qui nous attendait !!
A deux pas de l’auberge Metvlana où nous résidions, Greenwoods vous propose des menus breakfast à petit prix, et en plus extrêmement, délicieusement BON et BIO !! ^^
Le personnel est fort agréable, et l’ambiance y est décontractée et chaleureuse. Beaucoup de nationalité se rencontre dans ce salon !!!
Good Trip !!! ;-)

Ce salon de thé, situé en centre-​ville, propose des petits-​déjeuners, brunchs, mais également de la restauration rapide. Nous avions envie de prendre un bon petit-​déjeuner avant d’attaquer la journée de marche qui nous attendait et il faut avouer, que le charme extérieur du Greenwoods nous a conquis.
A l’intérieur, les tables sont proches les unes des autres, c’est chaleureux, convivial et on y retrouve de nombreuses nationalités. Le salon de thé propose des menus pour le petit-​déjeuner entre 7 et 10 €, mais nous avons préféré faire les gourmands sucrés à la carte.
Pour ma part, j’ai opté pour un grand chocolat chaud avec en prime de la chantilly et pépites de chocolat à seulement 3.25 € et une part de cheesecake maison à 4.50 € vraiment délicieux.
A savoir qu’il y a deux Greenwoods à Amsterdam ! Un lieu où je vous conseille vivement d’y aller pour une pause thé ou manger, tout est bon, maison et servi avec le sourire. En plus, les prix sont tout à fait raisonnables.

Excellent restaurant. Sûrement le meilleur. Peu cher, les plats sont excellents et l’accueil chaleureux (comme l’endroit). Il faut juste parfois faire un peu la queue, et on attend un peu pour certain plat
Ce restaurant reste mon favoris quoi qu’il arrive

Super süßes kleines Kaffee und Restaurant! Belegtes hausgemachtes Brot mit allerlei leckeren Sachen! Und für unter 8EUR satt werden ist nicht leicht in Amsterdam :)
Der Zitronen-​Baiser Kuchen ist natürlich als Nachtisch unschlagbar! Absolut empfehlenswert für jemanden der Mittags gerne mal etwas ruhiger sitzen und den Kanal genießen möchte!

Kleines, gemütliches Café mit tollem Essen und nettem Personal. Ein echter Geheimtipp außerhalb des Touri-​Troubles.

Sehr nett! Bis Abends Sonne und abseits der Menschenmassen. Empfehlenswert!

Süßes, kleines Café direkt am Kanal. Der Karotten– und Käsekuchen ist super lecker und die Scones sehen auch toll aus! Die Kuchenstücke sind aber nicht sehr groß.