We'd add
Our runner-upBroodje gerookte paling
Smoked eel on a white roll, the old Dutch broodje, sandwich roll. The second fish, once the herring is gone.
- A traditional Dutch roll
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Our dish — the plate we'd order here firstHollandse haring (Hollandse Nieuwe)
- TechniqueCure
Young salt-cured herring, cleaned in front of you and cut into pieces, with raw onion and pickle. Amsterdam eats it in bites from a paper tray, not by the tail as Rotterdam does, and this is why you stop at the cart.
Frens Haringhandel
Dutch · herring stall · raw fish · Koningsplein, Amsterdam
Koningsplein / opposite Singel 468, 1017 AW Amsterdam
Must-goOne of the few places in this city we'd plan a trip around.
The Frens family has sold herring in Amsterdam for nearly fifty years, from this cart on the Koningsplein for most of them; Jasper Frens and Ruben run it now. It's where we'd learn to eat a herring the Amsterdam way.
The proof, in the house's own words
Why the herring
Sourcing · protected name
Hollandse Nieuwe, the young herring whose name is protected across Europe.
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