Cafe 't College
Cozy jazz-blues restaurant with good simple food: steaks, salads, sate. The kitchen closes at 9pm, but you can get bitterballen, spring rolls, etc. after that.
ACU
In this squatters cafe cheap vegan food is served on tuesdays, wednesdays, thursdays and sundays.
De Oude Muntkelder
Traditional Dutch pancake restaurant. They have a lovely setting beside the small canal. They have a wide varieties of pancakes, even quirky ones like the Norwegian pancake. On Mondays and Tuesdays all-you-can-eat pancakes for students for only â¬9.75.
Stadskasteel Oudaen (http://www.oudaen.nl/), at Oudegracht 99, is a 13th century city castle turned restaurant.
There are several Flemish snack bars outside of Hoog Catharijne that sell wonderful thick fries with mayonnaise. Try it; itâs not as bad as John Travoltaâs character seems to think in Pulp Fiction.