Kometen Brood & Café

Kometen Brood is a sourdough bakery and café on the NDSM wharf in Amsterdam-Noord, where the bread and croissants are made in an open bakery that you can watch from the café.

They bake sourdough bread (zuurdesembrood) along with focaccia, croissants and pastries, all from their own oven. Their website does not say which flour they use or from which mill, or whether any baker's yeast is added. Every other Monday they teach sourdough workshops for beginners and advanced bakers, and beginners go home with their own dough and a free sourdough starter.

The bakery, shop and café at Ms. van Riemsdijkweg 2 is open every day from 8:00 to 16:00, and bread and pastries can be ordered online in advance and collected there. A smaller counter (loket) in a former naval shooting range on the Marineterrein, at Kattenburgerstraat 5, sells coffee, croissants and a simple lunch from 8:30 to 15:00 on weekdays and until 17:00 at weekends.