elmo’s Osdorp is open seven days a week: Monday to Friday 09:00–19:00 and Saturday to Sunday 10:00–19:00. It sits at Pieter Calandlaan 228H in Amsterdam Nieuw-West, roughly a minute’s walk from the Hoekenes tram stop on line 1. It is a breakfast, brunch and lunch room rather than a dinner restaurant: sandwiches run €6.50–€9.50, bowls €10.00–€13.00 and the pancakes it is known for €14.50–€16.50.
There is no reservation system and no table service to speak of; you order, you sit, you leave. Two things this page used to get wrong and now does not: the kitchen does not shut at 18:00, and it does not close at the weekend.
elmo’s Osdorp at a glance
| Address | Pieter Calandlaan 228H, 1069 LA Amsterdam (Osdorp, Nieuw-West) |
| Open | Mon–Fri 09:00–19:00 · Sat–Sun 10:00–19:00 |
| What it is | Breakfast, brunch and lunch room. Sandwiches, pancakes, yoghurt bowls, salads, smoothies and matcha |
| Typical spend | €9–€12 for a sandwich and a drink; €21–€23 for a pancake and a matcha |
| Nearest stop | Hoekenes, tram 1, on Pieter Calandlaan itself (about 1 minute on foot) |
| Booking | None published. Walk in |
| Phone | +31 6 23241572 |
| Takeaway and delivery | Yes, through the venue’s own ordering page and the usual delivery apps |
| Sister locations | Bos en Lommer (Egidiusstraat 89) and Noord (Bezaanjachtplein 237) |
What are elmo’s Osdorp’s opening hours (openingstijden)?
elmo’s Osdorp opens at 09:00 on weekdays and 10:00 at the weekend, and closes at 19:00 every day. Nothing in the week is a rest day. The kitchen runs breakfast into late lunch rather than dinner, so a 19:00 close is the whole story: if you arrive at 18:30 you will be served, but you will be eating in a room that is winding down.
| Day | Opens | Closes |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | 09:00 | 19:00 |
| Tuesday | 09:00 | 19:00 |
| Wednesday | 09:00 | 19:00 |
| Thursday | 09:00 | 19:00 |
| Friday | 09:00 | 19:00 |
| Saturday | 10:00 | 19:00 |
| Sunday | 10:00 | 19:00 |
An earlier version of this page said elmo’s Osdorp opened Monday to Friday only, from 09:00 to 18:00, and advised readers to plan weekday visits. That was wrong on both counts and it is the reason this page was rewritten. If you have seen weekday-only hours quoted for this address anywhere else, that claim traces back to the same error.
What is on the menu at elmo’s Osdorp in Amsterdam, and what does it cost?
Het menu van elmo’s Osdorp splits into savoury broodjes (sandwiches) around €6.50–€9.50, yoghurt and acai bowls at €10.00–€13.00, two salades, and a long pancake list at €14.50–€16.50. The populaire gerechten and prices below are the venue’s own published figures, read on 15 August 2026. Sweet plates cost roughly twice what the savoury ones do, which is worth knowing before you sit down expecting a cheap lunch.
| Item | What is in it | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Healthy sandwich | Tomato, cucumber, cheese, egg, rocket | €6.50 |
| Bolo sandwich | Hummus, grilled vegetables, avocado, olive oil, ras el hanout | €8.50 |
| Salmon sandwich | Salmon, herb cream cheese, avocado, chives, rocket | €8.50 |
| Tuna sandwich | House tuna salad, melted cheese, capers, rocket, tomato | €9.00 |
| elmo’s sandwich | Grilled chicken, melted cheese, rocket, tomato, house sauce | €9.50 |
| Spicy Elmo | Grilled chicken, melted cheese, rocket, tomato, jalapeño, house hot sauce | €9.50 |
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
| Kids pancake (maple syrup, icing sugar) | €10.00 |
| Red fruit pancake | €14.50 |
| Cinnamon swirl, chocolate twist, crunchy choco, Lotus lover | €15.50 each |
| Melted peanutbutter, pistachio pleasure | €16.00 each |
| elmo’s pancake | €16.50 |
| Power bowl (yoghurt, banana, peanut butter, dates, walnuts) | €10.00 |
| Happy bowl (yoghurt, strawberry, blueberry, granola) | €10.50 |
| Energy bowl | €11.00 |
| elmo’s bowl, served warm (oats, oat milk, nuts, banana) | €12.00 |
| Acai bowl | €13.00 |
| Veggie salad | €11.00 |
| elmo’s salad (grilled chicken, egg, avocado, croutons) | €14.00 |
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
| Iced coffee milkshake | €5.00 |
| Matcha (mango, strawberry or coconut) | €6.50 |
| Matcha milkshake, L’avocat shake | €6.50 |
| Smoothies (Panache €6.50; mango tango, green energy, forest and the rest) | €6.50–€7.00 |
| Protein shakes (Dumble, Matcha boost) | €7.80–€8.00 |
| Fresh orange juice, 200 ml | €4.00 |
| Ginger shot, granola cookie, red velvet cookie | €3.00 each |
| Banana bread | €3.20 |
| Coffee beans, 250 g | €9.75 |
| House granola, 250 g | €6.95 |
| Reusable glass cup | €8.50 |
| Matcha tins | from €29.95 |
Do the arithmetic before you order: a pancake and a matcha comes to €22.00 for one person, which is close to what a sit-down lunch costs in the centre. The cheap end of this menu is the broodjes list, not the sweet list. elmo’s markets its broodjes as halal on its own Instagram and TikTok channels, which is worth knowing if that matters to you and is not something the delivery listings make clear.
How do you get to elmo’s Osdorp by tram?
Take tram 1 towards Osdorp De Aker and get off at Hoekenes. The stop is on Pieter Calandlaan itself, about a minute from the door, and tram 1 calls there roughly every ten minutes in each direction. That is the whole answer; there is no walk worth planning around.
Coming back into town, the same stop serves tram 1 towards Muiderpoortstation. Tap in and out with a contactless card, phone or watch: see our OVpay guide to Dutch transport payments for how the tap-in system handles cards that are not Dutch.
Where can you park near elmo’s Osdorp?
Pieter Calandlaan is inside the Nieuw-West paid-parking zone, charged at €1.60 an hour, Monday to Saturday from 09:00 to 19:00. Those hours are the same hours elmo’s is open, so on any weekday or Saturday visit you will be paying. A 90-minute brunch costs €2.40 in parking on top of the food. Sunday is currently the only day the meter is quiet.
Some stretches along Pieter Calandlaan and the neighbouring Baden Powellweg are still reported as free. Rather than pick a side on a street-by-street question that changes, check the nearest meter or the parking app before you walk away from the car. Arriving by bike avoids the question entirely, and Osdorp’s cycle infrastructure is the good kind: wide, separated and flat.
Can you order elmo’s Osdorp for delivery or takeaway?
Yes, and this is a large part of how the place trades. elmo’s Osdorp runs its own online ordering page for afhalen and bezorgen, and it also lists on the main Dutch delivery platforms and the Uber app. Het menu van elmo’s Osdorp and the prices in the tables above come from that ordering page, so what you see online is what you pay at the counter for the same item.
Two practical notes. Delivery windows are not the same as the door hours, and can close before 19:00 on quiet days. And the retail lines, the coffee beans, the granola and the matcha tins, are in-store items rather than reliable delivery stock.
Ordering in Dutch: the words you need
The ordering page and the delivery app listings are in Dutch, and the menu categories are not all guessable from English. This short glossary is enough to place an order without switching languages.
| Dutch | English |
|---|---|
| Bestellen | To order |
| Bestelling | Your order |
| Bezorgen / afhalen | Delivery / collection |
| Gerechten | Dishes |
| Populaire items | Popular items, the app’s default sort |
| Broodjes | Sandwiches |
| Salades | Salads |
| Fris | Soft drinks |
| Openingstijden | Opening hours |
| Statiegeld | Deposit on the cup or bottle, shown per item |
| Veelgestelde vragen | Frequently asked questions |
Pancakes, bowls, smoothies and matcha keep their English names on the Dutch menu, so the categories that trip people up are broodjes, salades and fris. The statiegeld line on the menu van elmo’s Osdorp shows €0.00 on eat-in items and is added on some packaged drinks.
How is elmo’s Osdorp different from the other elmo’s locations?
There are three elmo’s in Amsterdam and they are easy to confuse, because the delivery listings and social accounts use overlapping names. The business publishes all three addresses on its own Instagram profile. If you searched “elmo’s Amsterdam” and landed here, this table tells you whether you want this one.
| Branch | Address | District |
|---|---|---|
| elmo’s Osdorp (this page) | Pieter Calandlaan 228H | Osdorp, Nieuw-West |
| elmo’s Bos en Lommer | Egidiusstraat 89 | Bos en Lommer, West |
| elmo’s Noord | Bezaanjachtplein 237 | Amsterdam-Noord |
Each branch runs a separate ordering page, so a delivery link for one will not reach the others. The menus are close but not identical, and the hours differ. We have verified opening hours only for the Osdorp branch, which is what this page covers; treat the other two as needing their own check.
One more disambiguation, because search engines keep confusing the two: this elmo’s has no connection to the Sesame Street character. The name is the business’s own.
What do reviews actually say about elmo’s Osdorp?
Mixed, and worth knowing before you cross the city for it. Restaurant Guru aggregates a 3.1 out of 5 rating from 126 visitor reviews for this branch, read on 15 August 2026. That is a middling number for a brunch room, and it is lower than the picture the venue’s own social feed presents.
Read that alongside what the place is for. elmo’s Osdorp is a neighbourhood lunch room in a residential part of Nieuw-West that does a brisk takeaway and delivery trade. It is a good stop if you are already in Osdorp, at Sloterplas, or shopping at the square. It is a weak reason to make the trip from the centre when the same money buys you brunch nearer the canals.
What else is worth doing near elmo’s Osdorp?
Osdorp rewards a half-day rather than a detour. Within a short ride of Pieter Calandlaan you have the Osdorpplein shopping centre, the water and beaches of Sloterplas, and Molly’s Arena, the anime arcade and ramen bar on Osdorpplein. Further east, Martin Luther Kingpark and Amsterdam’s best picnic spots are the obvious warm-weather pairing.
If it is specifically brunch and coffee you are chasing, compare against The Pantry, Wakuli’s specialty coffee bar and Stretch & Fold in Noord. For the cheaper, faster end of Amsterdam eating, there is Vlaams Friteshuis Vleminckx, Fabel Friet and Rudi’s Original Stroopwafels. Market shoppers should look at Ten Kate market and the food stalls at Foodhallen, both a straight run east on tram 1 and then a short change.
Common questions
Is elmo’s Osdorp open on Sunday?
Yes. Saturday and Sunday it opens at 10:00 and closes at 19:00. Only the opening time differs from a weekday.
Does elmo’s Osdorp take reservations?
No reservation system is published. Walk in. For a group large enough that a table matters, phone ahead on +31 6 23241572 rather than turning up and hoping.
How much should I budget at elmo’s Osdorp?
A sandwich and a smoothie lands at €13–€17. A pancake and a matcha is €21–€23. The cheapest full plate on the menu is the €6.50 healthy sandwich.
Is there a vegetarian or vegan option at elmo’s Osdorp?
The Bolo sandwich (hummus, grilled vegetables, avocado) and the veggie salad are the meat-free savoury choices, and the fruit bowls and smoothies are vegetarian. Whether any given item is fully vegan depends on the yoghurt, honey and milk used, so ask at the counter rather than assuming.
Which tram goes to elmo’s Osdorp?
Tram 1. Get off at Hoekenes, on Pieter Calandlaan, about a minute from the door. Tram 17 does not serve this address despite older guides saying so.
Is elmo’s Osdorp the same as elmo’s Amsterdam?
Same business, different branch. “elmo’s Amsterdam” is used loosely across delivery listings and social accounts for all three sites. The Osdorp branch is the Pieter Calandlaan one.
Does elmo’s Osdorp deliver (bezorgen)?
Yes, through its own bestellen page and the main Dutch delivery platforms. Delivery hours can end earlier than the 19:00 door close.
