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What You’ll Experience
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Duration
2 hours
Number of Guests
1 - 15 guests
Language
English
Digital Ticket
Mobile or paper ticket accepted
Dive into Dutch culture with a thrilling Amsterdam tour. Embrace challenges, savor local treats, and uncover the city's secrets in one immersive experience. Laughs and stories await!
For each guest that attends this experience, byFood will donate
10 meals
10 meals
Experience Details
Think you can become Dutch in 7 challenges?
Eat herring like a local, toast jenever without your hands, decode canal houses, survive a Dutch birthday, and learn what gezellig really means. This isn’t a dry history tour or a heavy food crawl — it’s a fast-paced, story-filled cultural adventure led by a local expert who brings Amsterdam to life through laughter, tastings, and the Dutch quirks no guidebook explains.
You’ll leave with a deeper connection to the city, a belly full of bites, and a few stories your friends won’t believe.
What You Get
10 flavors cheese tasting
7 interactive challenges blending food, history, and local traditions
Personal attention small group experience (max 15 guests)
Want to leave a tip? Gratuities are much appreciated by Cash, Venmo or PayPal!
Note: Canal boat tour not included. Your guide can recommend one after the tour.
Good To Know
- We walk 1.2 mile or 2km: Not recommended for servere mobility issues
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Service animals allowed
What You’ll Experience
1
The Poolbar
Poolbar Amsterdam – A True Dutch Borrel
Begin your experience at a cozy local café with a traditional borrel: a sip of local draft beer, a tasting of jenever (Dutch juniper spirit), and freshly made bitterballen.
Meet your guide, play the vintage Dutch game sjoelen, and learn your first Dutch word: gezellig.
Challenge: Say “echt gezellig” and mean it.
20 minutesAdmission Ticket Free
2
Herring Stall Jonk
Fishmonger Stop – Herring Like a Local
Visit a family-run fish shop and taste Hollandse Nieuwe, the raw herring that fueled Dutch trade.
Learn the proper technique and the surprising history behind it.
Challenge: Eat it with onions, head tilted back like a local.
15 minutesAdmission Ticket Free
3
Cheese & More Flower Market
Henri Willig Cheese – The Great Gouda Challenge
Discover how Dutch cheese is made—from cow to cellar.
Blind-taste 10 different cheeses (young, aged, spicy, and more) and try to guess what’s what.
Challenge: Pronounce “Gouda” like a Dutchie and win the quiz.
20 minutesAdmission Ticket Free
4
Flower Market
Floating Flower Market – Tulips, Trade & Tourist Myths
Stroll through the world’s only floating flower market and discover how tulips once triggered the world’s first financial bubble.
Learn why the Dutch still celebrate flowers—not just as beauty, but as a symbol of global trade, wealth, and identity.
Your guide will also bust a few myths (hint: real locals don’t buy tulip bulbs here).
Challenge: Guess where tulips are really from...
15 minutesAdmission Ticket Free
5
Peppernuts Amsterdam
Canal House Basement – Sinterklaas & Spiced Cookies
In a cozy, cinnamon-scented basement, discover the Dutch legend of Sinterklaas—poems, songs, and cookie-throwing included.
Learn how he differs from Santa and why he still arrives by steamboat.
Challenge: Catch a flying pepernoot (and taste three flavors).
10 minutesAdmission Ticket Free
6
Duke Of Tokyo
Amsterdam’s Gay District – Pride, Progress & the Rainbow Trail
Stroll through the historic heart of Amsterdam’s LGBTQ+ scene—where quiet progress led to a global first: legal same-sex marriage in 2001.
Hear how the Dutch blend activism with pragmatism, and how this neighborhood became a symbol of inclusion.
Challenge: Spot a very attractive artwork...
10 minutesAdmission Ticket Free
7
Dampkring Coffeeshop
Outside Dampkring – Brad Pitt, Cannabis & Dutch Tolerance
Outside the famous Dampkring coffeeshop—where Brad Pitt, George Clooney, and Matt Damon once lit up—you’ll explore gedogen, the Dutch policy of tolerating what technically isn’t legal.
No, we don’t go in or use cannabis—but this stop reveals how the Dutch manage contradictions with calm and common sense.
Challenge: Guess what’s actually legal (spoiler: not the weed).
10 minutesAdmission Ticket Free
8
Canals of Amsterdam
UNESCO Canals – A Quiz with a View
Pause along Amsterdam’s iconic 17th-century canals—now a UNESCO World Heritage site—and discover how water shaped the city’s wealth, identity, and chaos.
Your guide will test you with playful questions: How many bikes fall in? How many bridges? How many drunk swimmers?
Challenge: Get the answers right, win a Dutch cookie. Bragging rights included.
15 minutesAdmission Ticket Free
9
Happy Bookieman
Hidden Hippie House – The Amsterdam Time Forgot
Slip into a tiny alley most tourists miss and find the last real hippie house of Amsterdam—still lived in, still wild, still wonderfully weird.
Covered in plants, murals, and peace signs, it’s a living relic of Amsterdam’s squatters’ movement and free-spirited past.
Challenge: Spot the secret message hidden in the window or wall.
5 minutesAdmission Ticket Free
10
Heertje Friet
Heertje Friet – Fries, Mayonnaise & Dutch Pride
Taste the crunchiest, golden fries in Amsterdam at a boutique fry shop that takes its potatoes seriously. You’ll learn why fries are a Dutch obsession—and why we unapologetically drown them in mayo. (Yes, just like in Pulp Fiction.)
Sample funky sauces and discover which topping pairs best with your inner Dutch self.
Challenge: Choose your favorite and go all-in—no ketchup allowed.
15 minutesAdmission Ticket Free
11
Hans Egstorf
Stroopwafel Finale – A 200-Year-Old Treat
End your adventure on a sweet note at Amsterdam’s oldest bakery. Watch how traditional stroopwafels—thin waffle cookies filled with warm syrup—are made the old-fashioned way.
Learn the proper way to eat them (hint: it involves your coffee cup), and taste one fresh off the iron.
Challenge: Get it warm and gooey without cracking it.
15 minutesAdmission Ticket Free
Meeting & Pickup
Meeting PointThe Pool Bar, Voetboogstraat, Amsterdam Noord-Holland, Netherlands, NL, 1012 XK
Open in Google MapsWe start at this quiry Dutch game cafe with a drink - great informal way to meet your fellow travellers! If you arrive early feel free to take a seat up front or inside by the window.
End PointThis experience ends at the meeting point.
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