Guidebook for Utrecht

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Guidebook for Utrecht

Drinks & Nightlife

Best (craft) beer-bar of Utrecht. Of the Netherlands perhaps. The owners know their beers and are happy to share their infinite knowledge about the brews. Order their home-made shrimp-croquettes!
13 locals recommend
De Drie Dorstige Herten
47 Lange Nieuwstraat
13 locals recommend
Best (craft) beer-bar of Utrecht. Of the Netherlands perhaps. The owners know their beers and are happy to share their infinite knowledge about the brews. Order their home-made shrimp-croquettes!
Good terrace and good beer selection
31 locals recommend
Café Tilt!
62 Lange Jufferstraat
31 locals recommend
Good terrace and good beer selection
Good terrace!
39 locals recommend
Café Ledig Erf
3 Tolsteegbrug
39 locals recommend
Good terrace!
Good terrace!
41 locals recommend
Café de Zaak
9 Korte Minrebroederstraat
41 locals recommend
Good terrace!
Nice big fireplace to sit around, decent meals available as well.
16 locals recommend
Le Clochard
2 Ridderhofstad
16 locals recommend
Nice big fireplace to sit around, decent meals available as well.
Local brewery with tasting facility. Bit outside of town, but the beers are highly recommended!
29 locals recommend
Maximus Brewery
2A Pratumplaats
29 locals recommend
Local brewery with tasting facility. Bit outside of town, but the beers are highly recommended!

Food Scene

Best coffee, right around the corner! Also good for some serious (hipster) crowd-watching.
90 locals recommend
The Village Coffee & Music
44-46 Voorstraat
90 locals recommend
Best coffee, right around the corner! Also good for some serious (hipster) crowd-watching.
High-quality food and unexpected combinations. Local produce and as much as possible organic. Always plenty of vegetarian options on their menu!
14 locals recommend
Restaurant Deeg
71 Lange Nieuwstraat
14 locals recommend
High-quality food and unexpected combinations. Local produce and as much as possible organic. Always plenty of vegetarian options on their menu!
If you are in for some home-baked pastries! Try to sit in their authentic cellar downstairs.
57 locals recommend
Bakkerswinkel Utrecht
2 Wittevrouwenstraat
57 locals recommend
If you are in for some home-baked pastries! Try to sit in their authentic cellar downstairs.
One of the most original restaurants in town. Everything fresh, everything organic, local produce and even an all vegetable menu that is completely vegetarian.
16 locals recommend
De Keuken van Gastmaal
2 Biltstraat
16 locals recommend
One of the most original restaurants in town. Everything fresh, everything organic, local produce and even an all vegetable menu that is completely vegetarian.
Best Surinamese restaurant in the neighbourhood, order their vegetarian roti
18 locals recommend
Restaurant Opium
80 Voorstraat
18 locals recommend
Best Surinamese restaurant in the neighbourhood, order their vegetarian roti
Nice Asian fusion restaurant (shared small dishes) with lots of vegetarian options
Yumca B.V.
23 Voorstraat
Nice Asian fusion restaurant (shared small dishes) with lots of vegetarian options
Best Dim Sum restaurant in Utrecht! If you feel adventurous, ask for the Chinese-only menu...
8 locals recommend
Chinese Restaurant Paradise
28 Vredenburg
8 locals recommend
Best Dim Sum restaurant in Utrecht! If you feel adventurous, ask for the Chinese-only menu...

Sightseeing

Climb it!
259 locals recommend
Dom Tower
9 Domplein
259 locals recommend
Climb it!
Beautiful medieval monastery garden
7 locals recommend
Domtuin
Domtuin
7 locals recommend
Beautiful medieval monastery garden
Old botanical garden, with nice university museum, exhibitions and old greenhouses
15 locals recommend
Oude Hortus
106 Lange Nieuwstraat
15 locals recommend
Old botanical garden, with nice university museum, exhibitions and old greenhouses
Nice gardens, well kept with huge tropical greenhouses
37 locals recommend
Botanic Gardens
17 Budapestlaan
37 locals recommend
Nice gardens, well kept with huge tropical greenhouses
Nice park for a Sunday stroll
189 locals recommend
Wilhelminapark
Wilhelminapark
189 locals recommend
Nice park for a Sunday stroll

Essentials

Closest supermarket
42 locals recommend
AH Voorstraat
38 Voorstraat
42 locals recommend
Closest supermarket
Second closest supermarket
160 locals recommend
Jumbo
46 Merelstraat
160 locals recommend
Second closest supermarket
Another big supermarket with a good organic selection
40 locals recommend
PLUS
61 A Voorstraat
40 locals recommend
Another big supermarket with a good organic selection
Organic supermarket!
SEM Super Eko Market
21 Voorstraat
Organic supermarket!
Many Turkish and Persian grocery stores: find all the spices you need and didn't know that you needed. Or just have some baklava! Specifically on Saturday it resembles a miniature version of Istanbul.
42 locals recommend
Kanaalstraat
Kanaalstraat
42 locals recommend
Many Turkish and Persian grocery stores: find all the spices you need and didn't know that you needed. Or just have some baklava! Specifically on Saturday it resembles a miniature version of Istanbul.

Arts & Culture

Good concerts and highly recommended dinner menu for 12,50 euro on selected weekdays (check their website)
71 locals recommend
Ekko
3 Bemuurde Weerd Westzijde
71 locals recommend
Good concerts and highly recommended dinner menu for 12,50 euro on selected weekdays (check their website)
Closest cinema, with a good (arty) selection
23 locals recommend
Utrecht City
89 Voorstraat
23 locals recommend
Closest cinema, with a good (arty) selection
For some theater
Schouwburg
For some theater
Independent movies and more alternative work
44 locals recommend
Hoogt on Tour
6 Nijverheidsweg
44 locals recommend
Independent movies and more alternative work

Everything Else

Closest recycling station (glass, paper etc)
Noorderstraat
Noorderstraat
Closest recycling station (glass, paper etc)
Nice park and grass area to walk around or have a BBQ on a summer evening.
42 locals recommend
Lepelenburg
Lepelenburg
42 locals recommend
Nice park and grass area to walk around or have a BBQ on a summer evening.

Shopping

Best home-made ice cream parlor in Utrecht
47 locals recommend
Roberto Gelato
93 Poortstraat
47 locals recommend
Best home-made ice cream parlor in Utrecht