Coffee and Jazz is a small unassuming restaurant Utrechtsestraat of Amsterdam, a picturesque street lined with independent clothing, books and music stores that runs perpendicular to the lively Rembrandt Square. As the name suggests, this is the place to go for a good cup of coffee drunk to the accompaniment of mellow jazz sounds. As the name suggests, this is the place to go for a good cup of coffee, drunk to the accompaniment of soft jazz sounds. What is not immediately obvious from the name is that Coffee and Jazz also sells excellent Indonesian food served by an eccentric Dutchman.
Coffee and Jazz Cafe opened more than a decade ago and in that time both it and the owner have become something of an Amsterdam institution. Dressed in a polka dot shirt and sunglasses, with slightly disheveled shoulder-length hair, Rene Volker is not your average host. In fact, he originally trained as a graphic designer.
This is one of the restaurant’s signature dishes and an Indonesian classic of strips of chicken threaded onto skewers, cooked over coals and served with a spicy peanut sauce.
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Coffee and Jazz is a small unassuming restaurant Utrechtsestraat of Amsterdam, a picturesque street lined with independent clothing, books and music stores that runs perpendicular to the lively Rembrandt Square. As the name suggests, this is the place …