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Alongside the Amsterdam canals…
Bridges is just like any typical citizen of Amsterdam: honest, open and accessible. The restaurant is located alongside one of the oldest most beautiful canals of the city’s historical center; de Oudezijds Voorburgwal. But Bridges is not just a fine restaurant in Amsterdam.

International clientele and culinary connoisseurs from all over the Netherlands come to this magical place to be pampered and to enjoy the most exquisite fish dishes. We would like to introduce you to some of Amsterdam’s typical phrases. From Bridges you enjoy a great view on the Amsterdam ‘drijfsijssies’ and you ‘peert hem’ only after having enjoyed a great ‘pikketanesie’. Afterwards you can ride your bike home or ask the ‘gleuvenrijder’ to take you there safely…

A great number of phrases have been popular for many years and are becoming widespread outside Amsterdam.

Bridges immerses you not only in culinary pampering but also in the typical Amsterdam vocabulary: • gleuvenrijder – tram conductor
• haarlemmerdijkie – a phrase for picking a fight
• haarlemmerdijkje – a product of inferior quality
• geintjesponem – a joker
• sijssie – a bird • drijfsijssie – a duck in the canal
• jajem – brandy
• pikketanesie – a shot of brandy
• provincial – someone who doesn’t live in the city
• jaap – cut (wound)
• ouwehoeren – talking without saying anything
• porem – face
• de pijp uit – dead
• zo dood als een pier – extremely dead
• ‘m peren – leaving (ik peer ‘m!)
• gladjanus of linkmiechel – smooth talker
• afgepeigerd – dead tired
• bonje – trouble you caused yourself
• grijpstuiver – not a lot of money

For those who are feeling adventurous and want to immerse themselves in the Amsterdam dialect before they come to Bridges: click here for a soundclip (thanks to http://www.meertens.knaw.nl)