Bilder & de Clercq

On the corner of the Bilderdijk and De Clercqstraat there is, since a couple of months, a store called Bilder & de Clercq with an amazing new concept. They have recipes for 1 meal and you can buy all the ingredients you need to cook the meal with them. All the ingredients for a specific recipe are displayed on a table and you can pick whatever you need, from a box of herbs to a clove of garlic. So in the end you don’t need to get a lot of groceries to make a meal for one evening, just need some basics like vinegar, olive oil, salt & pepper.

Besides meals they also have a selection food and drinks (among which some of the best brands in Amsterdam) to have a complete dinner party: from sausage, nut and cheese to wines and sodas, from soups to deserts and from coffee and tea to pies and chocolate.

When we still lived in Amsterdam we didn’t really go there, mainly we then still had a weekly organic vegetable box delivered which mostly provided us with enough veg to feed us for a whole week. Nowadays when we are only in the city for a couple of days, it is a perfect store for us and when we are in Amsterdam I really go there almost every day. Of course to get dinner for that day but also to quickly get pieces of their lemon polenta cake when somebody comes over for a cup of coffee, to get a bottle of wine and one of their rosemary goat cheeses when on my way to have dinner with a friend or to get a bag with tea and cookies, wine and Brand&Levie sausage, Ginger Ale and smoked almond by Gotje to thank my aunt and uncle for organizing my grandma’s 80^th birthday dinner.