Patisserie Holtkamp

Their Gevulde Speculaas was so beautiful I had to buy one to bring home. The taste was so authentic and delicious. Also tried a slice of their white chocolate cake. Divine. A bit on the pricey side but worth every penny. The lady behind the counter was very friendly.

Five stars for the CROQUETTES. Shrimp croquette, cheese croquette… baby, this is croquette heaven.
The lemon-​meringue pie was just okay. Still, I’m awarding 5 stars to Holtkamp’s Patisserie because their croquette belongs in the Guggenheim.

My god, how did this patisserie get 5 stars?
Did I just happen to come on an ‘empty freezer and pantry’ day?
Most of everything in the bakery looked yummy and the staff were very nice.
Price was a bit too high but I thought it should be worth the taste. I bought a perfect looking open-​faced apple tart and some ginger cookies (I love and was in the mood for ginger)
Apple tart was terrible. Apple was too soft and sweet. Like maybe older apple tart. Been sitting on the self too long. Crust was too soggy and flavorless. Can’t taste the butter in there at all. Everything just screams ‘old’ and has a bad after taste of the freezer aged odor. Terrible. 3 – 4 euro
Ginger cookies– lots of small julienned crystallized ginger but the ginger flavor is a little too mild. Too sweet. The cookie was very soft, flavorless. Again, soggy and old. Better than the apple tart but still bad. 3.5 euro-​ish.
Will not return and DO NOT come here.

I love the cheesecake, the chocolate cake and the shrimp croquettes. One of the best bakeries in Amsterdam.
Also try the cookies, they are to die for!

I tried the cake here (strawberry one) and it was very very delicious! It’s not too expensive and definitely there were some other cakes I would love to try as well. It’s a small hole in the wall bakery with no indoor seating but you could bring to the museumplein not too far away to enjoy.

Une magnifique patisserie qui donne envi et qui le rend bien !!
Un peu a l’écart du coeur très vivant de la ville on trouve cette petite patisserie. Avec un univers a l’ancienne, les vitrines annonce la couleur de bonne part de gâteau bien alléchant.
J’ai essayer uniquement les gateaux. Et ils étaient très fin et délicieux et créatif dans les gouts.
Un super détour a faire pour ce faire un petit plaisir sucré en allant vers les parcs.

Really nice small pastry shop! It’s always packed and you may have to shove your elbows into a few people to get a chance to order some delicious cake, pastries, or a famous croquette. I’ve tried a few things from here and all of them were very tasty!

CROQUETTES! Croquettes are the only thing that matters (in the world).
ask for them, have them cook them for you. 2 will fill you up!
i had the cheese, my bf had the shrimp.
it was all we could talk about for the next 24 hours.

If I lived in Amsterdam, I would be visiting this bakery at least once a week,…and probably weigh 300 lbs. The best pastries and cookies (buttery to the max) imaginable. You’ll want to purchase a case of the stroop koeken. (probably spelled that incorrectly). There’s also a killer tartlet with fresh strawberries, blueberries, nestled in fresh fresh whipped cream and held in a bittersweet chocolate shell. I defy you to take one taste and put it away for later. Impossible.

I bought my husband’s birthday cake from here. Simply excellent chocolate cake :) Worth every penny!

Feinste Auswahl an Backwerk!
Lecker!

Delicious! We enjoyed the apple tart and the shrimp coquette very much! Darling cakes inside, and plenty of tempting cookies, chocolates, meringues… mmmmm.

Great bakery. We had three desserts. All were fantastic. Although I wouldn’t say that the cheesecake was the best I ever had, it was still fantastic.
A definite visit if you’re in Amsterdam
My only negative is that there are no places to sit! And it is a small bakery so we had to wait till people cleared out.

Nothing to say other than this place is sublime.

Best bakery I have ever experienced. We tried three items: cheesecake, apple pie, and an assortment of cookies. Everyone in the group thought that each item was the best example ever experienced.
Apple pie with perfect crust, raisins, and a great balance of sweetness.
Each component of the cheesecake (crust, cake and jam frosting) all stood on their own but put together it ended up perfect.
The cookies were excellent.
Go, enjoy.

Words cannot describe Holtkamp. They turned pastry into art through science! Just go, go, go!

I feel as though there aren’t enough stars to fulfill the amazingness of Holtkamp. This place is heaven on Earth!
First, the crème suisse is TO DIE FOR. Seriously, if someone offered me one in exchange for walking in front of the psychotic bicycles of Amsterdam, I would no doubt take the crème suisse.
While sitting in the Vondelpark yesterday, my dad had his first encounter with Holtkamp while enjoying an apple tart. Apparently it’s a 300 year recipe. Well, 300 years does a body good because that tart was fan-​tart-​tastic, and I’m not even an apple as a pastry fan!
Bottom line, this is a life altering, experience. You will see the light of pastry day, and the light comes from Holtkamp. Enjoy!