Latei

Es un pequeño café de dos pisos, estilo vintage. El servicio es un poco lento pero amable. Ofrecen muy rico café y pastelería a precios razonables. Es un lindo lugar para volver si se está por el barrio.

Excellent Cheesecake! Cool Place!

My friend and I were looking for place to eat breakfast and our pancake place did not open until much later-​another friend recommended Latei. The place is small, kind of funky and all of the kitschy objects [ceiling fixtures, bric a brac, small tables] in the restaurant are for sale. Options include eggs over toast, homemade apple pie, multiple options for coffee and soup and sandwich combos. My friend and I both got coffee and cheese omelettes. The staff is very accommodating and laid back. I would recommend and return.

De Wallen Cute coffee place that is worth a visit when in the neighborhood. The vintage atmosphere there is very nice and the objects you see inside are for sale. Interesting lamps.
They serve (good) Bocca coffee and pastries, breakfast which are home made. I know because the smell of cooking can came too strong in some moments. And if you choose a table at the upper level you could see the tarts coming out of the kitchen.
Friendly staff and most of all friendly cat house.

Open early. Simple menu. Everything’s fresh!!! And, for you Americans you can stay as long as you like.

Super cute café with yummy organic food. My sister and I each got coffee, I got the egg and cheese breakfast and she got the chorizo sandwich (all for 14 €). The sanwich is on the small side but the ingredients are really good (amazing olive oil and the bread is freshly made and covered with crunchy sun flower seeds miam!). Overall, great little café. Even though its small we didn’t have any trouble finding seats.

Perfect morning chill spot. Quaint and comfortable, the coffee is great and the wifi fast :-)
It’s also a great place to plan your day since it’s right in the middle of town!
The staff was very nice too.

ohmygod THE BEST LATTE I HAVE EVER HAD I HAD HERE. Didn’t need to add sugar, just the perfect ratio of espresso to milk and froth — and I HATE milk froth. SO DELICIOUS. And I don’t like pie, but I figured I would try the Dutch Apple pie. I was floored. It wasn’t too sweet, but it tasted perfectly of baked apples and cinnamon. SO GOOD. It’s on a quiet street a hop away from the busier area of the RLD, and it’s a throw away from Nieuwmarkt. Perfect location. It’s quiet, has free Wifi, and is very relaxed and charming. A must go if in the area.

This is a quirky little place with lots of lamps on the ceiling, very retro furniture and my 6ft 2 husband felt quite the giant sitting upstairs looking down as we felt like we were in some sort of child’s tea party setting. There are many retro kitchen bits and bobs for sale and lots to look at if you are grabbing a coffee alone. The cappuccino and carrot cake is what I had. I thought the carrot cake was maybe a little pricey at around € 3.50 but the slab they gave me was huge and enough for two and it was the best carrot cake I’ve had in a long time. You could see the grated carrot but the cake was moist like it had alcohol in it like a fruit cake without the taste just carrot cake juicy heaven with a frosting that was a mix between marshmallow and meringue. Have the carrot cake it’s amazing!
Fyi: there’s a friendly black cat in case you want to pet it or are allergic

Cette adresse né se situe pas dans l’un des plus beaux quartiers d’Amsterdam (près du Quartier Rouge, dans une rue remplie de restos asiatiques). Je dirais même qu’elle dénote par rapport à ses voisins.
Tenu par deux jeunes hommes à l’allure cool, Latei propose quelques soirs par semaine (en fin de semaine), un plat végé inspiré par la cuisine exotique. Ce soir, c’était un gado-​gado, c’est-à-dire une salade indonésienne de légumes croquants nappés avec de la sauce à la cacahuète. Dans notre assiette il y avait donc du riz, du papadum, des fruits et légumes crus et une poêlée de légumes avec du tempeh et de la sauce saté hyper relevée (dans mes souvenirs je n’avais jamais eu la bouche autant en feu, mais c’était tout à fait mangeable).
Vous pouvez également augmenter les portions des différentes préparations de l’assiette et/​ou en ajouter d’autres (certaines avec de la viande). Ils proposaient aussi jus frais et gâteaux en dessert. Pour tout ça je né pourrais néanmoins pas me prononcer car nous n’avons pas testé.
Pour 10 €, c’était franchement bon, convivial, simple (assiette en carton mais ça correspond tout à fait au lieu) et original (ça change) !

Nice little café in the heart of Amsterdam’s China Town. Known for its amazing coffee and delicious cakes.
They also serve great breakfast sandwiches and freshly squeezed fruit juices.
Overall retro feel because it is also a flea market, you can buy everything from lamps to furniture and crockery there.
A little cramped though.

Loved the drinks, the food, the decorations and the kitty. Worth getting breakfast here and people watching.

Super cozy bakery with one of the best coffees in the Nieumarkt area. Immersed in a Chinese restaurant street is a nice place to have a break and feel like home with a very vintage artistic decoration. Lovely crew lovely service.

The first time I went was very early in the morning and I got the apple pie still warm from the oven. Delicious. Second time was for lunch and the sandwiches were good but nothing special. The atmosphere is quirky/​hippy but comfortable.

Mega süsses Café in Chinatown mit leckerem Kaffee und selbstgemachten Kuchen. Ich kam gg. 17:15 und wurde super nett darauf hingewiesen, dass sie um 18 Uhr schließen — für mich völlig ok. Das Ambiente ist wirklich reizend, die Vinatageeinrichtung teilweise sogar zum Kaufen.
Der Apfelkuchen fiel zwar aufgrund der großen Apfelstücke ein wenig auseinander, aber der Geschmack war großartig, der Cappuccino war lecker — zusammen hab ich 7,50 bezahlt. Kein Schnäppchen, aber dafür wirklich gut — zum Vergleich: am gleichen Tag aßen die Kolleginnen im Norden von Amsterdam ein Angebot mit Kaffee (ja, Kaffee) und Fertigapfelkuchen für 5 Euro — da leg ich gern was drauf für diesen Genuss.
Absolut zu empfehlen! Hier komme ich gern wieder — achja… wifi gabs auch :-)

I lOVE LATEI’s décor! So retro! So colorful!
And they have a black cat, just hanging out there.
It’s a very fun place to have break with their coffee and some sweets.
Their Dutch apple pie was OK. But they serve loose leaf tea. It was really nice. The coffee was good, too.
I’d like to try their breakfast menu next time. I will go back there for sure.

Terribly nice vintage interior (everything is for sale !), great and friendly staff, the cutest house cat in town (Elvis !), excellent cheese cake, apple pie, brownies and carrot cake, fresh pressed juices, free WiFi. .. and the list goes on !
Every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night you can also have really nice dinner as wel, delicious nutritious dishes ! Not your average food though, very simple and fusion, but creative and original. Good price quality too. Menu changes every season, ranging from Japanese, Indonesian, Thai, Middle Eastern, Dutch .
My favorite place in town !

Delicious eggs, though a little bit greasy. Lovely atmosphere and incredible prices, especially for the very center of the city!

I ducked in here one freezing winter day to get out of the cold with my visiting American friend shortly after I moved here. What we found was a cozy warm very populated café, with good music and hip people.
We really liked our drinks, and I loved the croissant I ordered. But my American friend kind of got uncomfortable with the upstairs area which was so full of people everyone was touching elbows. I thought it was a charming European show of warm gezelligheid, he thought it was a claustrophobic infringement on his personal space. To each his own I guess. But I’ll always remember this as a nice place to get warm on a cold winter’s day.

I write this as I sit in Latei for the third time in two days during my solo trip to Amsterdam, across from my new Dutch boyfriend, Elvis the cat. I have nothing but good things to say.
The first time I came here I was greeted by a very friendly server who, after a conversation about missing my pets, told me he’d make my coffee while I went to sit with Elvis the café cat. I was unsure of what to order so I just picked the croissant with goat cheese. He asked if I wanted tomato, salt, pepper, and olive oil as well, and I definitely said yes. It was without a doubt the best croissant sandwich I’ve ever had. Buttery, flakey croissant, fresh, firm tomato, and salty but creamy goat cheese… Mmmm! It’s also what I had today.
The coffee is wonderful as well. Since coming to Amsterdam I’ve gone back to my old ways of drinking my coffee black, and it tastes just as good as with cream.
I also came back here last night. It started to get too dark for me to explore on my own, so I decided to come hang out here instead of just sitting in my hostel. Even though I was stuffed from Thai food, I ordered a hot chocolate to be polite and let me tell you: *no regrets*. It tasted as good as it looked. It had still unmelted chunks of chocolate at the bottom, the cup was steaming hot, and the whipped cream was the perfect topper. I will more than likely come back tonight for another one.
The service here is wonderful. All the employees more than kind. I always feel bad making them go up and down those teeny steps to bring me a second cup of coffee.
More than anything, I love the vibe of this place. Every time I’m hear I feel like an Amsterdam native. It’s cozy, warm, and inviting. Even when it’s busy (which I’ve noticed it is after 10:30am for breakfast and after 7pm for dinner/​dessert) I never feel like they are annoyed with me spending hours here catching up on writing and blogging or doing school work.
When I leave Monday I will really miss this place. I’m already thinking of making plans to come back to Amsterdam because I’ve fallen in love with it here (Amsterdam, that is, but of course Latei too).

This is a quirky little café tucked into an unassuming spot on Zeedijk. With mismatched chairs, and novelties everywhere, Latei has a distinctly bohemian feel to it. Their is a black cat that wanders around, who I’m assuming from the «Elvis does not leave the building» signs, must be called Elvis.
The food is simple enough, with lots of light fair and some organic offerings. I’ve only been for lunch, but I understand they have a dinner menu that changes all the time and I’ve very interested in trying it. They also offer lots of fresh pressed juices that are all very tasty!
The prices are incredibly reasonable (3 – 5 euros for sandwiches; about the same for an omelet) and the staff is all very friendly too. This is quickly becoming one of my favorite little lunch spots.

Cute little hybrid between a café’ and a flea market.
Very close to the red light district, in the café’ everything is for sale, from the cappuccino to the cake, through to the chairs you sit on and the lamps on the ceiling (and perhaps the waiters as well? LOL).
The place is very original and the cakes were gooooooood.

I really miss places like this…
While visiting in Amsterdam, I found this place was a hot spot, you know where all the international hipsters hang out. It is in Chinatown (which is small in Amsterdam) but no Chinese people to be found in here (well, except for me)…
It was cold out and rainy when I came here on a weekend afternoon. I had just popped into the Buddhist temple across the street (review to come) and was frozen to the bone and needed to warm up.
This place is packed with people and all the windows were fogged up, so really warm and cozy. I ordered a soy latte and a vegetable hummus sandwich and then proceeded to look around for a table. Nothing was available on the first floor.
So, I go up the narrow stairs and find a nice couch and plop down immediately. All the tables and chairs are a hodge podge of things from the 70s past. Check out the kitschy wallpaper and all the furniture and decorations are on sale. Cool beans.
My food arrived shortly and I gobbled down the hummus sandwich and washed it all down with a nice soy latte (yea, no dairy)! I lounged around a bit more, read through my Time Out Amsterdam guide to find the next place to explore and jotted a few things in my notebook about the place.
Looking back 4 months now, this is what I wrote,“lots of light fixtures hanging from the ceiling, interesting Finnish wallpaper, and so many paintings, makes you wonder if you are in a thrift store?“
After warming up the soul, I paid my bill at the counter and then headed off into the cold Amsterdam air. Cool experience. Great for solo exploring or bring friends too!