Aegean kitchen · Amsterdam

Where the Aegean meets Amsterdam.

Rakı, wine, coastal seafood, meze — the flavours of the Aegean’s warm waters, right here on the Overtoom.

Four hands raising glasses of rakı over a table of meze
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A long table, a cold bottle, small plates that keep arriving. On the Aegean coast no one hurries a meal — it is the evening itself. We set that table in Amsterdam.

Guests around a candlelit table late in the evening

Cooked the way
the coast cooks

Olive oil, lemon, wild herbs, whatever came out of the water that morning. Aegean cooking is restraint more than invention: few ingredients, treated well, so that a raw artichoke, a handful of samphire or a plate of fried sardines tastes exactly of itself.

To make the most of the menu, ask us for a recommendation from our carefully chosen rakı and wine list. We look forward to welcoming you.

Read the menu
01

Rakı

Poured slowly, clouded with water, never drunk alone — the anise thread that runs through the whole evening.

02

Wine

A small, deliberate list from the Aegean and beyond — coastal whites built for salt, citrus and olive oil.

03

Meze

The heart of the table. Cold first, then hot, arriving in waves for as long as the conversation lasts.

Small plates,
one after another

  • Tarama with trout roe, dill and edible flowers

    Tarama

    Whipped roe, dill, olive oil

  • Cherry beetroot with kaymak, walnuts and poppy seeds

    Cherry beetroot

    Kaymak, walnut, poppy seed

  • Girit ezme — whipped Turkish white cheese with pistachio and molasses

    Girit ezme

    Turkish white cheese, pistachio

  • Octopus salad with pickled vegetables and rock samphire

    Octopus salad

    Pickled vegetables, kaya koruğu

  • Molasses eggplant rolls with yoghurt and flowers

    Molasses eggplant

    With yoghurt and herbs

  • Raw artichoke salad with dill and lemon

    Artichoke salad

    Raw artichoke, caper, herbs

  • Plenty more on the menu —
    cold plates, hot plates and the fish.

    See the full menu

Keep a place
at the table

Send us the evening you have in mind and we’ll confirm your table by email. For parties larger than eight, or to take the whole room, write to us directly and we’ll arrange it with you.

Address
Overtoom 534, 1054 LL Amsterdam

Request a table

We reply to every request by email.

Guests

Overtoom 534,
Amsterdam

At the western end of the Overtoom, a few minutes from the tram and a short walk from the Vondelpark. Come for a long table with friends, or for a few plates of meze and a glass of rakı.

Overtoom 534
1054 LL Amsterdam