Where to eat and drink in Eindhoven

Eindhoven is filled with nice bars, cafes, coffee places and restaurants. Whatever your taste, style or budget is, you will surely find a place that matches your food and beverage desires and needs. AND your budget;-).

So where to eat and drink in Eindhoven

These are the restaurants and coffeeshops that I visited -and liked-:

• Grand Cafe Restaurant Usine

This grand-cafe is located in the heart of Eindhoven, right next to the Art Hotel, where I stayed during my citytrip. I had dinner and breakfast here, accompanied by lots of cappuccino’s and fresh orange juice. A spacious, relaxed grand-cafe with a supercool interior design. There is a special play area for children and there also is a small, cute shop.

My breakfast; enormous and tasty!I love this patisserie/ traiteur/ shop inside Usine. The pinkish cake-shaped lamps were very tempting, I must say. I did not buy one because they are a bit pricey. Good thing, since my house is full enough as it is;-).

• Stadscafe De Vooruitgang Apparently this grand cafe has been renovated and recently reopened. It is huge and extremely busy. I found the mix of customers very refreshing and felt right at home. The coffee was good and the apple pie was delicious.
• De Stadsbranderij (=City Roaster), by the BeanBrothersYou can easily overlook one of the newer coffee hotspots in town: the Stadsbranderij. Walking in the Bergstraat, look out for store De Toverspiegel. Next to it is a tiny alley. Go in, go through the gate at the end (right hand) and you arrive in a tiny courtyard. There you see double green doors. Enter, et voila, the first thing you see is a big coffee roasting machine.Inside it is very cosy; with a livingroom-feeling. It’s all about coffee here. But also about cooperation and great ideas. For example: they work together with Pinkie Patisserie, having a few of their pastries for sale to accompany your coffee. In case you have a bigger appetite, customers are encouraged to BYOL (Bring Your Own Lunch).Another cool cooperation is with De Stoute Stoel (=the Naughty Chair), a store that repurposes and restores furniture. The cafe is furbished with their stuff, that is for sale at the same time, like e.g. the small cartoon table where I placed my coffee. Further the Stadsbranderij has a space for events and workshops on the second floor. The heavily tattooed barista was ever so friendly. Highly recommended, this coffee hangout.
• Restaurant from Piet Hein Eek (Strijp-R) Ofcourse the interior design of this restaurant is gorgeous. This is Piet Hein Eek’s restaurant, people, designer Piet Hein Eek! I had a cafe latte here and a berry merengue. Uhm, yum, mouthwatering, so good!
• Pinkie Patisserie Initially, Pinkie had only one location: in Strijp-R, on the terrain of Piet Hein Eek. Since a while they have a second outlet in the city centre, in Butler’s Table. And, as I just mentioned, their pastry is sold in De Stadsbranderij. How it tasted? Very yummie!

Others worth mentioning are:

• Daily, lunchroom inside the Sissy Boy store (in the Blob) The cafe is on the second floor at the very end. It looks cosy and nice. Great store, by the way, SissyBoy. Bit expensive, but I succeeded to buy two huge domes (to display pretty things in) at a very affordable price.
• Kazerne
• Leefcafe Het Spiegelbeeld
• Radio Royaal (Strijp-S)
• Lunchroom De Binnenstad
• De Bakgigant
• Restaurant Vintage
• De Smalle Haven
• Vlijtig Liesje
• Keldermand en van Noort, inclusief Bakker Ludwig
• Stadsrestaurant Caffee Allee (Strijp-S)
• Cafe van PopEI
• Koffiehuisje (bij Ketelhuis in Strijp-S)
• restaurant Zarzo (Michelin star)
• Van Moll
• Eetcafe D’n Hertog
• Grand Cafe Berlage
• Tijdelijk Restaurant (Strijp-S) As you can see the Tijdelijk Restaurant is a fondue restaurant.

Note: this list is by no means exhaustive.

Which are your favorite places in Eindhoven for a meal, a coffee, drinks or pastry?