Remko's brood & taartjes

Remko's brood & taartjes is a bakery on the Rijnstraat in Amsterdam Zuid that bakes its bread on site every night, with a line of hand-shaped sourdough loaves alongside its cakes and pastries.

The sourdough (zuurdesem) range includes a white multigrain, a brown loaf and a rye-wheat sourdough, and the bakery also makes Allinson wholemeal loaves, including one with walnuts, slow-risen white tin loaves (casino) and a spelt loaf with pumpkin seeds. Their website does not say which flour or mill they use, or whether baker's yeast goes into the sourdough loaves. The granola is made in-house from oats or from spelt the bakery puffs itself, and the shop sells cakes, tarts and apple pie as well, which we did not check.

The shop at Rijnstraat 176 is open Monday to Friday from 7:00 to 17:30 and on Saturday from 7:00 to 17:00, and is closed on Sunday. Bread and cakes can be ordered through their website a day ahead and collected in the shop the next day.

The dough is made by hand overnight in the bakery itself, six days a week, and the bakers adjust it to the humidity and temperature of the day.