For locals

Where do you go?

Not your favourite restaurant in the world. The one you would actually send a friend to, with the sentence you would say out loud.

Look it up first

Search for the place and we will fill in the name, the address and a photo. You still write the part that matters.

Look it up firstvia Google

Website

Name of the placeStreet and numberoptionalSo we can put it on the map. Roughly right is better than blank.

City

AmsterdamRotterdamUtrechtGroningenArnhemEindhoven

NeighbourhoodoptionalDe Pijp, Noord, Oost

What kind of place

CoffeeEatBarClubLive musicCinemaSomething to doMarketShopOutdoorsWaterUp high

Why this oneWrite it the way you would say it. We would rather have two honest sentences than a paragraph of adjectives.Anything to know before goingoptionalCash only, book ahead, go before eight. That kind of thing.

Photo

Without a photo we put a placeholder there and add our own imagery later.

Your own photooptional

or paste a link

Your nameoptionalYour emailoptionalOnly so we can ask a question. Never published, never mailed to.

A person reads every submission before it appears. We add the writing and the imagery ourselves, so you only have to bring the place.

One place a week

A short letter on a Thursday about one place, written by someone who went there. No lists, no offers.

Your email address

One email a week at most. Unsubscribe with one click, and your address goes nowhere else.

Where do locals go

Every spot is added by someone who lives here and checked by hand before it goes live. A place in this list cannot be bought, and neither can a better position in it.

Add a spot Routes For venues Admin

Some places here carry a mood still we made ourselves, others a photograph from Google or from the venue. Every page says which of the three, and who made it.