Eating alone in the Netherlands

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About Eating alone in the Netherlands

Eating alone in the Netherlands is a company with a local service area.

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Sitting at the bar with a book draws no looks here, and that is not true everywhere.

The brown café

The bar runs the full length and there are always people sitting alone. You are not a curiosity there, which is exactly why it works.

The eetcafé

Eating at the bar needs no explanation. In a restaurant with white cloths that is harder; in an eetcafé it is entirely ordinary.

The newspaper on a stick

Grand cafés hang newspapers on wooden sticks to read on the spot. That custom exists precisely for people sitting alone.

Student cities

Groningen, Utrecht, Nijmegen and Leiden have many places where sitting alone is the norm. The sheer number of people doing it makes it easy.

Where to look

Brown cafés and eetcafés, and lunchrooms during the day.