Street Market - Albert Cuyp, Amsterdam

In a less visited area by tourists known as De Pijp, there is a colourful market. De Pijp is the home of flamboyant Dutch people and immigrants. So when I say colourful, I mean all the different nationalities and the peculiarly dressed Dutch people. It's nice to stroll along this market and sit outside on one of the terraces and just observe the locals.

The market is open from Monday through Saturday between 9:30 am to 5 pm.

What to buy: Cloths, fruit, vegetables, flowers, fish ...

What to pay: Less expensive than elsewhere in shops

De Peperbo is a lovely market-like shop right on the Albert Cuyp (just behind the stalls) where you will find everything for tea and coffee, kitchenware, spices and herbs, sweets and lovely gifts.
I saw the biggest wooden spoon there that I ever saw.

What to buy: Don't! You'll go away with too much anyway. Tea, herbs, spices, kitchenware, a shop to drool over.

What to buy: You will find there specially cheap clothes and the usual food. This is a place for locals, I think.

I liked a lot the vegetables and fruit stalls, with a lot of products. There was also good bargains in shoes and clothes, too.

Don't miss a couple of stalls where you can taste the "strootje hering" (or something like that) which is a sandwich with a herring, onion and etc. a typicall and nice meal from Holland. Even being typicall for me it was a bit difficult to find it!

What to pay: I found it was cheap, good place to buy the daily food!

If you’re in the mood for shopping and haggling, then this market is for you. The Albert Cuyp Markt is an outdoor market that stretches for about a mile down the Albert Cuypstraat.

What to buy: You’ll find stalls selling everything from vegetables, cheese and fish to cosmetics and clothes.

What to pay: "Haggle" is the name of the game.

Albert Cuyp is a mile-long, no-nonsense, 100-year-old street market where locals stock up on food, flowers, clothes and notions six days a week. There is something very satisfying about a market in the middle of the street, where cars are banned and pedestrians rule. The market has nearly 300 vendors on both sides of the street facing a central aisle that runs down the middle of four blocks of Albert Cuypstraat. Here you'll see the newer faces of Amsterdam - Kurds, Serbs and Cambodians - selling and buying alongside the ruddy old-timers, all of whom use this market as their everyday larder, choosing from fruits and vegetables, fresh chickens on ice, and smoked and fresh fish. You can walk through Albert Cuyp and see nary a tourist, feeling, for just a moment, what it must be like to be a native. There is no pretension here, but value is everywhere.
Most of the stores on Albert Cuypstraat display their wares on the sidewalk and some even have market stalls. There are a lot of flower and plant merchants and clothing stores whose prices attract a regular following, and little cafes along the street selling local specialties. This is a good neighborhood to scout out the numerous cheap ethnic restaurants operated by recent immigrants.