Fuku

Friedhats coffee, poured at its own bar

The bar here pours Friedhats’ own coffee, which is the reason to make the trip out to Bos en Lommer. Filter and espresso both come from the roastery, so the range on the board tracks whatever is currently being roasted rather than a fixed house blend. The Super Special lots are the ones to watch: competition-grade coffees kept separate from the core range and poured while they last. The filter list is where the roastery shows its buying, and the espresso is set up to be drinkable rather than a demonstration. It is a coffee bar first, with everything else arranged around the cup.

Colourful rather than clinical

The room does not follow the pared-back specialty template. The design is bright and deliberately subversive, closer to a neighbourhood café than a laboratory, and the service is friendly rather than technical. That combination is unusual at this level of coffee, where seriousness usually arrives with grey walls. Friedhats built its name on the roasting rather than on a café, so the bar exists to show the coffee at its best rather than to carry the business.

Bos en Lommer helps. The café sits west of the centre, in a residential part of Amsterdam most visitors never reach, which keeps the room local on weekday mornings despite the international attention it has drawn.

Filter first, then the croissant

Order filter if you want to understand the roasting, and espresso if you want to understand the bar. Both are the point of the place, and asking what is open on filter is the fastest way to the best cup in the room on any given day.

For food, the croissant and the house-made granola are the two things to know, and the granola is the more substantial of the two if the visit is standing in for breakfast. Natural wine is also poured, which turns the café into something else later in the day without pretending to be a bar. If the visit is a detour rather than a habit, take a bag as well, since this is the roastery’s shop window as much as its bar. Fuku was placed 36th on The World’s 100 Best Coffee Shops list in 2025 and named in that year’s European Coffee Trip awards.