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d'Vijff Vlieghen

The five flies of the name are the five old houses on the Spuistraat that Nicolaas Kroese turned from an antique shop into a restaurant in 1939. Its rooms, each with its own name, are a museum of old Amsterdam interiors, and have fed visitors from all over the world since the war.

What it is
Restaurant
Opened
1939
Area
Spuistraat
Nearest museum
Rembrandt House Museum, 900 m

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    What d'Vijff Vlieghen is known for

    1. Five houses

      The restaurant fills five houses joined together, the oldest part of 1627, with dining rooms on several floors.

    2. The rooms

      Each has a name and a character: the Rembrandt Room, its walls covered with leather of the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, the Print Room, with old views and plans of Amsterdam, and others.

    3. The guest books

      The restaurant keeps its guest books, going back to 1946, in the Rembrandt Room.

    What to know

    • Opened in 1939 by Nicolaas Kroese, who had begun with an antique shop in the same houses
    • The oldest part of the building dates from 1627
    • Kroese promoted it in New York in 1953, with a birdcage of five copper flies

    Where d'Vijff Vlieghen is

    Address

    Spuistraat 294
    1012 VX Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Nearest station

    Koningsplein, on the tram, about two minutes away. Rokin, on metro line 52, is four minutes away

    Museums and sights nearby

    Distances are in a straight line from the restaurant.

    An antique shop that became a restaurant

    Nicolaas Kroese started an art and antique shop in the Spuistraat, which he turned into a small restaurant in 1939. He restored the houses next to it, and after the war his restaurants drew many American visitors.

    In September 1953 he went to New York for the city's three-hundredth anniversary to advertise them, taking with him a birdcage holding five copper flies.

    d'Vijff Vlieghen: common questions

    Where is d'Vijff Vlieghen?
    At Spuistraat 294, in the Centrum district of Amsterdam. The nearest station is Koningsplein, on the tram, about two minutes away. Rokin, on metro line 52, is four minutes away.
    Which museums and sights are near d'Vijff Vlieghen?
    Rembrandt House Museum is 900 m away, Our Lord in the Attic is 1.0 km away, Rijksmuseum is 1.1 km away. Distances are in a straight line from the restaurant.
    What is d'Vijff Vlieghen known for?
    Five houses, The rooms, The guest books. A restaurant of 1939 in five houses of the seventeenth century on the Spuistraat, its dining rooms panelled, hung with old leather and prints of the city.
    When did d'Vijff Vlieghen open?
    In 1939. Opened in 1939 by Nicolaas Kroese, who had begun with an antique shop in the same houses.

    What visitors say about d'Vijff Vlieghen

    Rating from Google

    4.4

    1,719 ratings on Google

    Google's figures as read on 19 October 2026.

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