Restaurant Beddington’s? Book early. One of Amsterdam’s most beloved and lauded chef/owners, English-born Jean Beddington creates her magic nightly in a beautifully austere setting that is always packed out with devoted diners. The décor is smart and sleekly modern in a two-tone palette – black and white – that lets the food take centre stage. An open kitchen lets you in on the action – the creation of her personal French-based cuisine that includes strong influences from her years in Japan, her English roots, and everything else that she has experienced. A short menu of three or four courses changes each day. Recent dishes included starter of Gillardeau oysters on granite of cucumber, spring onion and Japanese ginger with bean sprout/wakame salad, main course of slow-roasted Baambrugs pork belly with cavolo nero, sage sauce and mushroom/black pudding beignet, and dessert of cannoli with goat’s milk ricotta, buttermilk panna cotta, gentian sorbet and blueberries. Short, international wine list. A short skip from museums and the Concertgebouw.