Night Kitchen is an Eastern Mediterranean neo-bistro and late bar at Jan Pieter Heijestraat 170H in Amsterdam Oud-West, open every day from 18:00, with the kitchen running until 23:00 and the bar going later. Its signature booking is Dinner with Friends: €58 per person for a personalised sharing menu built around what you tell the team you like, desserts included, with an optional drinks arrangement at €25 per person. You can also order a la carte, from €7.50 for bread to €28 for slow-cooked lamb, unless your group is seven or more, in which case Dinner with Friends is the only format offered. The mapped location sits at the Overtoom end of the street, so tram 1 to the Jan Pieter Heijestraat stop is the shortest walk; trams 7 and 17 serve the Kinkerstraat end, about a kilometre north.
Night Kitchen Amsterdam at a glance
| What it is | Eastern Mediterranean and Levantine neo-bistro, plus a bar that keeps going after the kitchen shuts |
| Address | Jan Pieter Heijestraat 170H, 1054 ML Amsterdam (several listings, and the restaurant’s own Instagram, show 172H) |
| Neighbourhood | Located in Oud-West, on the long street between the Kinkerstraat and the Overtoom |
| Opens | Every day at 18:00 |
| Kitchen closes | 23:00; the bar runs past midnight, latest on Friday and Saturday |
| Signature menu | Dinner with Friends, €58 per person, desserts included |
| Drinks arrangement | €25 per person for 2.5 hours of open wines, draft beers and the non-alcoholic list |
| A la carte | €7.50 to €28 per plate; desserts €12 |
| Groups of 7 or more | Dinner with Friends only, no a la carte |
| Trams | 1 to Jan Pieter Heijestraat (Overtoom end, nearest); 7 and 17 to Nicolaas Beetsstraat (Kinkerstraat end) |
| Booking | Online for tables up to 28 people; walk-ins welcome at the bar |
| Phone | +31 6 2533 0624 |
| Step-free | Entrance and seating yes; there is no designated wheelchair-accessible toilet |
Where is Night Kitchen, and which tram actually gets you there?
Night Kitchen sits on Jan Pieter Heijestraat, the long north-south shopping street running through Oud-West between the Kinkerstraat at the top and the Overtoom at the bottom. It is a residential stretch rather than a tourist one, which is most of the appeal and also the reason the directions trip people up.
The street is about a kilometre end to end with a tram stop at each end, on different lines, so the useful question is not which tram serves the street but which end you want. Both the restaurant’s own map pin and the coordinates in its listings put it near the Overtoom, at the southern end, which makes tram 1 the shortest walk.
There is also a stop that plenty of directions still name and that no longer exists. Until 2023 the Kinkerstraat had a stop called Jan Pieter Heijestraat. On 6 March 2023 the GVB merged it with the neighbouring Ten Katestraat stop into one new stop, Nicolaas Beetsstraat. If an older article or a stale map entry tells you to get off at a Kinkerstraat stop named after the street, that instruction is out of date.
| Route | Stop | Which end it serves |
|---|---|---|
| Tram 1 (shortest walk) | Jan Pieter Heijestraat, on the Overtoom | The southern end, where the restaurant is mapped, beside Vondelpark |
| Tram 7 or 17 | Nicolaas Beetsstraat, on the Kinkerstraat | The northern end, by Ten Kate Market and De Hallen, about a kilometre away |
| By bike | Racks along the street | Either; lock the frame to something fixed, not just the wheel |
| Do not use | “Jan Pieter Heijestraat” on the Kinkerstraat | Withdrawn 6 March 2023, replaced by Nicolaas Beetsstraat |
Driving is the weakest option. This is permit-heavy residential Oud-West with paid street parking and no restaurant car park, so a P+R on the ring plus a tram is cheaper and faster. The OVpay guide covers tapping in and out with a contactless bank card, which is now the standard way to pay on Amsterdam trams.
What does dinner at Night Kitchen cost?
The headline number is €58 per person for Dinner with Friends, the restaurant’s signature format, with desserts included. Adding the drinks arrangement takes it to €83 per person, and that buys 2.5 hours of the open wines, the draft beers and the non-alcoholic list, poured freely through the meal rather than counted by the glass.
Ordering a la carte instead, plates run from €7.50 to €28 and desserts are €12. Three or four plates each is the usual shape of a full dinner, which lands most tables in the same €50 to €70 range per person before drinks. The choice is about how you want to eat, not about saving money.
| Plate | Price |
|---|---|
| Sourdough bread, garlic confit butter, smoked aubergine creme, house pickles | €7.50 |
| Tomato carpaccio with pita croutons, basil and mozzarella | €14 |
| Greens salad, roasted cabbage, roasted sweet potato, spring greens | €16 each |
| Steak tartare, Mediterranean “ceviche”, fried artichoke hearts | €18 each |
| Homemade gnudi (ricotta dumplings, artichoke, cured lemon butter) | €20 |
| Bisque shrimps with harissa bisque and fennel | €21 |
| Grilled fish skewers with green tahini and tzatziki | €22 |
| Slow-cooked lamb, or veal “spare-ribs” | €28 each |
| Desserts: Beirut Nights, pistachio tiramisu, chocolate mousse | €12 each |
Dinner with Friends or a la carte: which should you book?
Dinner with Friends is not a fixed tasting menu with a printed running order. You sit down with a drink, the team asks what flavours you like and what you cannot eat, and the kitchen builds a menu for your table from there, sent out family-style in rounds with dessert at the end. Nobody hands you a menu and walks away, which is the part some people love and the part others would rather avoid. The restaurant describes it as a hosted experience rather than a menu, and that is a fair description of what actually happens at the table.
| Dinner with Friends | A la carte | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | €58 per person, desserts included | €7.50 to €28 per plate, desserts €12 |
| Who chooses | The kitchen, after asking about your tastes | You |
| Best for | Groups, birthdays, indecisive tables, first visits | Two people who know exactly what they want |
| Dietary needs | Built in from the start: vegan, vegetarian, gluten free, pescatarian, or combinations | Marked on the menu, though the range narrows |
| Groups of 7 or more | The only option | Not available |
| Drinks | Optional €25 arrangement, 2.5 hours | Ordered as you go |
That last row is the one to plan around. Book a table for seven or more and the a la carte menu is off the table entirely, by house policy, so a group arriving expecting to order individually will have the format decided for them at the door.
What kind of food is it?
Levantine and Eastern Mediterranean, which is a narrower thing than the “Mediterranean” label most listings give it. The cooking leans on the eastern shore rather than the Italian or Greek one: za’atar, tahini, sumac, harissa, baharat, dukkah, freekeh, bulgur, Medjoul dates. A dish called Beirut Nights sits on the dessert list, semolina pudding with orange blossom water and kataif crumble, which tells you more about the kitchen’s compass than the word Mediterranean does.
The wine list is built from small-production organic and natural bottles rather than a broad international list, and the bar makes cocktails and keeps a non-alcoholic section that runs beyond tonic and lime. Vegetarian and vegan plates are not an afterthought here: several of the most expensive things on the a la carte menu, the gnudi and the fried artichoke hearts among them, are vegetarian.
How late does the kitchen actually serve?
The kitchen takes orders until 23:00, seven days a week, and the bar carries on afterwards. That is the practical reason to know about this place. Dutch dinner service starts early and finishes early, and a 22:00 arrival in Amsterdam often means the kitchen has already closed. Night Kitchen keeps going for another hour, and keeps pouring past midnight.
| Day | Doors | Kitchen | Bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday to Thursday | 18:00 | Until 23:00 | Around midnight |
| Friday and Saturday | 18:00 | Until 23:00 | Latest of the week, into the small hours |
| Sunday | 18:00 | Until 23:00 | Earliest close of the week |
Closing times for the bar move with the night and with the season, so the honest advice is to treat 23:00 as the reliable number and ring ahead if you are planning to arrive after it. There is no lunch service and no daytime opening at all: 18:00 is the earliest you will get through the door on any day.
Can you walk in, or do you need to book?
Walk-ins are welcome at the bar. Tables are a different matter, and the restaurant takes online bookings for parties of up to 28 people through its own site, with larger events handled by the events team rather than the booking form. If you want a table on a Friday or Saturday evening, book it; if you want a plate of something and a glass of wine at 22:30 on a Tuesday, the bar is the answer.
Allergies and dietary restrictions are handled with notice, and the kitchen builds around them rather than subtracting from a fixed dish. The restaurant is direct about the limit: with a severe allergy it cannot guarantee food free of cross-contamination, and says so plainly rather than burying it.
Does it work for a group or a private event?
This is one of the few Amsterdam restaurants that treats groups as the main event rather than a scheduling problem. Seating is deliberately mixed, with high tables, low tables, bar seats and shared dining tables, and the private options scale a long way up.
| Party size | What applies |
|---|---|
| 1 to 6 | A la carte or Dinner with Friends, your choice; bar walk-ins fine |
| 7 or more | Dinner with Friends only |
| Up to 28 | Bookable online through the restaurant’s own booking button |
| Up to 30 | Semi-private space |
| 40 or more | Larger private room |
| Up to 80 | Full venue buyout |
Who should give it a miss?
Three groups of people, and the restaurant is upfront about all three. Families with small children: there are no high chairs and no children’s menu. Anyone bringing a dog: dogs are not allowed inside. And anyone who needs a wheelchair-accessible toilet: the entrance and the seating are step-free, but there is no designated accessible toilet, which is a meaningful difference and worth knowing before you book rather than after you arrive.
Add a fourth, softer one. If being handed a menu and choosing from it is part of the pleasure of eating out for you, the signature format will feel like giving something up, and a table for two ordering a la carte is the better booking.
Where did Night Kitchen come from?
Amsterdam is the third city, not the first. The original Night Kitchen opened in 2012 in Neve Tzedek, the old quarter of Tel Aviv, built around one idea: stop making guests choose, and let the kitchen host them. Night Kitchen Berlin followed in 2017, in a converted stable house in Mitte. The Amsterdam room opened on Jan Pieter Heijestraat in July 2021.
That lineage explains the menu better than the neighbourhood does. The Levantine grammar of the food, the sharing format and the late hours all arrived from Tel Aviv rather than being assembled in Oud-West, and the Dutch word the restaurant reaches for to describe the room it wanted, gezellig, is the one thing it picked up locally.
What else is worth eating and drinking nearby?
Night Kitchen sits in the densest eating quarter in Oud-West, which makes it easy to build an evening around it rather than treating it as the whole plan.
- Foodhallen, the indoor food hall inside De Hallen, a former tram depot a few streets north, for a looser, noisier first drink.
- Ten Kate Market on Ten Katestraat, the neighbourhood’s daytime street market, trading 09:00 to 18:00 Monday to Saturday, if you are in the area before the restaurant opens.
- Vondelpark, a short walk south past the Overtoom, for the hours before an 18:00 booking.
- Cafe Chris in the Jordaan and Winkel 43 on the Noordermarkt, if you want an old brown cafe rather than a neo-bistro.
- Door 74 or Jazz Cafe Alto near Leidseplein, for somewhere to go after the kitchen closes.
Questions people ask before booking
How much is Dinner with Friends at Night Kitchen?
€58 per person, desserts included. The optional drinks arrangement adds €25 per person and covers 2.5 hours of the open wines, draft beers and non-alcoholic list.
What time does Night Kitchen close?
The kitchen serves until 23:00 every day and the bar stays open afterwards, latest on Friday and Saturday. Doors open at 18:00; there is no lunch service.
Where exactly is Night Kitchen Amsterdam?
Jan Pieter Heijestraat 170H, 1054 ML, in Oud-West. Some listings and the restaurant’s own Instagram give the number as 172H. The restaurant is mapped near the Overtoom at the southern end of the street, so tram 1 to the Jan Pieter Heijestraat stop is the shortest walk. Trams 7 and 17 stop at Nicolaas Beetsstraat on the Kinkerstraat, at the far northern end.
Can I order a la carte with a group?
Not with seven or more people. Parties of seven and up are served the Dinner with Friends menu only. Below seven, either format is available.
Is Night Kitchen vegetarian and vegan friendly?
Yes, and it is built in rather than bolted on. The Dinner with Friends menu is assembled around vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free or pescatarian requirements, including combinations, and several a la carte plates are vegetarian or vegan as served. With a severe allergy, the restaurant states it cannot guarantee freedom from cross-contamination.
Do I need to book, or can I walk in?
Walk-ins are welcome at the bar. Tables are bookable online for parties up to 28; anything larger goes through the events team. Weekend tables are worth booking ahead.
Is it wheelchair accessible?
The entrance and the seating are wheelchair accessible. There is no designated wheelchair-accessible toilet.
Is Night Kitchen Amsterdam related to Night Kitchen in Tel Aviv and Berlin?
Yes. The first opened in Neve Tzedek, Tel Aviv, in 2012, Berlin followed in Mitte in 2017, and Amsterdam opened in July 2021.
Last updated: August 2026, and what was checked
This page was rewritten in August 2026 against the restaurant’s own published menu, story and events pages, and against GVB stop records. Four things on the previous version were wrong and have been corrected.
- The address. The page gave Amstelveenseweg 124, 1075 XL, which is a different street in a different district roughly two kilometres away. The restaurant is on Jan Pieter Heijestraat in Oud-West and always has been.
- The transport. Following from the wrong address, the page sent readers to the Amstelveenseweg stop on trams 2 and 12. Neither line serves this restaurant.
- The parking. The page recommended a car park at the Amsterdamse Bos as “about a 5-minute walk”. The Amsterdamse Bos is several kilometres south, in Amstelveen.
- The tram stop that no longer exists. The Kinkerstraat stop called Jan Pieter Heijestraat was withdrawn on 6 March 2023 and merged with Ten Katestraat into Nicolaas Beetsstraat, so directions naming it are stale.
Several dishes the old page described, among them an octopus carpaccio, lamb chops, baklava and a gin and lavender cocktail, do not appear on the published menu and have been removed rather than reworded. A claim about set menus during a March and September restaurant week could not be substantiated and was dropped. The house number is left deliberately unresolved: the restaurant’s website footer says 170H and its own Instagram says 172H, both are in postcode 1054 ML, and rather than pick one silently the page shows both.
Prices, hours and group rules come from the restaurant’s own site as published in August 2026. Menus here are seasonal and prices move, so check the current menu before planning around a specific plate.
