First time in Marken but this is The place to be! Get…read moreyourself a La Corne du bois des pendus. And for lunch a broodje IJsselmeerpaling. The best combi!!

'Ello Chaps! Cafe…read moreRestaurant De Groene is a small restaurant located along the waterside in Volendam - in rural Amsterdam. The view from the restaurant is fantastic. We stumbled upon the restaurant during a lunch break of one of the area's tours. The menu is robust, with a variety of soups, sandwiches, and other meal options. When ordering, it's good to ask questions. Example: I ordered a ham and cheese sandwich, thinking it would be a hot sandwich, but it was a cold sandwich. No biggie. Overall the service was good, and the food was too. Cash and credit cards are accepted. Overall I give this restaurant 4 stars out of 5.

Not a bad stop for lunch. Service was quick which was nice since we were on a tour and had limited…read moretime. I had the calamari and chips. It was tasty! It had a nice view of the water as well

A small "hotel-pension" with only five rooms, De Harmonie is really quite and experience…read more First, I need to correct the website address is is www.harmonie-edam.nl the is a typo in the Yelp listing (I sent a correction but will keep it in the review until it's corrected). The place is really a pub with a few rooms upstair. It can be a bit noisy in the evening because of the pub but rooms are clean and nice (European size, so not very large). Price are on the cheap side and you get an excellent value. I paid 60 euro for a single room and that included breakfast. The dutch breakfast is served in the morning in the pub and include coffee, juice, local cheese, eggs, bread and cold meats. Quite good to start the morning. The wifi is also free (rare in Europe). The hotel is well located the the little town's center with some nice restaurant and cheese shops nearby. Edam is know for originating the "edam" cheese of course which is quite tasty especially when aged. It is an historic walled city and it is quite charming. I did use Edam as based the last time I went to IBC (International Broadcasting Convention) in Amsterdam when all the hotels there are booked and prices are outrageous. Edam is a short 30 minutes drive to the RAI exhibition center (less to downtown Amsterdam) and this hotel offer that way an peaceful, nice and inexpensive alternative to staying in Amsterdam (yes, it does imply a bit more logistics). The easy free street parking in front of the hotel makes it easy to commute to Amsterdam by car. An alternative is to use the bus service to Amsterdam which is a bit slower but also convenient.

Lots of reasons to visit Edam. This beautifull place just outside Amsterdam has a great old centre…read morewith canals, bridges. A mini mini Amsterdam that should be in your agenda's when exploring places around Amsterdam. The Harmonie is a Dutch bar with white sand on the floor. This was used to keep the floor clean from sailors chewing tabacco and spitting on the floor. Als the sand was used to attract people by creating nice drawings in it. No spitting during my visit yesterday, its there just to keep the floor clean or to look bit authentic :). The Harmonie hosted the Walk about Music festival where singer songwriters perform in different locations in Edam. Walk in Edam, enjoy the city and the music of the performers. Had a view drinks in the Harmonie and was great atmosphere there. Will return sooon !!

Stopped here during a 5 1/2 hour bus tour from Amsterdam. Since it was dinner time, we wanted to…read moregrab some food before going back to Amsterdam. The place only had a few customers, with a very nice patio right on the water--- great place we thought. There were only two waiters actually working. Our waiter didn't show up to our table until we asked to order when he passed by our table. We ordered. The food arrived in a timely manner and was quite good. Unfortunately, we didn't have any table wear. When we asked, the waiter brought two sets...there were four in our party. My friend's food arrived after mine. She didn't have table utensils. She had to wait for the waiter to pass again...this took several minutes. She requested table wear...it took him several minutes to bring. The service was very bad. We had to wait for our waiter to pass several times to ask for items that should have been on the table to begin with. After our meal, we went into the restaurant to use the facilities and were shocked to see the two waiters who were serving tables, along with 5 other young people (who appeared to be wait staff). The 5 young people who all had black t-shirts on, were seated at a large round table, drinking beers and generally enjoying the evening. This is sad that the service was so terrible and yet the food was actually quite good...