Johan Cruijff Arena
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The renaming of Ajax football club’s home stadium has been hotly debated among garrulous Amsterdammers since the death of the country’s greatest ever player – but it will finally happen this year.
De Hallen
This former tram depot has recently been converted to a heaving indoor food hall. Escape the crowds by visiting library café Belcampo or the art deco cinema, Filmhallen, inside the complex.
The Evenings
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Seventy years after publication, the greatest Amsterdam novel has finally been given its first English translation. Follow Gerard Reve’s disillusioned office clerk Frits van Egters in this post-war tale of pathos and ennui.
Noord
Take a free ferry from Central Station across River IJ to the city’s hippest district. Dine at the former NDSM shipyard (IJ-Kantine) or enjoy panoramic views from a 100 metre-high swing (A’DAM Tower).
Canal cruising
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You can’t visit the city of canals and not take to the water. Leave the touristy waterbuses and rent a skippered sloop sailing boat – or better still, a chic saloon boat with onboard bar and catering.
Draadjesvlees
Translated as ‘meat braised to threads’, this beef stew is a staple of Dutch meat-potato-veg cuisine. No-reservation and no-nonsense Hap-Hmm has been serving up the city’s most succulent version since 1935.
Cathay Pacific flies to Amsterdam from Hong Kong seven times a week