Nordic cafés & restaurants in Benelux

You live in Benelux and want to try Scandinavian food and design beyond IKEA? I got you covered. I have been listing Nordic-inspired cafés, shops and more since desperately looking for a Lussekatt last winter. You can see my reviews for those I have been to.

ARKET – Clothing & tableware brand with a vegetarian café. In Den Haag, Antwerp, Bruxelles, Luxemburg.

Amsterdam

journal art nordic bakery
Danish bakery amsterdam
  • Selma’s – (West/centrum)-bakery, café (West)
    -to-go (Centraal)
  • Scandinavian Embassy (Zuid) -bakery, specialty coffe. bakery with broader assortment in Europaplein, Café with more space to sit at Saphatipark.
  • Danish Betty (markets) – buns/pastries + hotdogs stands
  • Kontrast Kafe – scandinavian/indonesian fusion. holds special events as lucia and midsommar communal dinners.

Den Haag

Norvolk den haag skandinavisch eten
norvolk swedish cafe den haag

Norvolk – Scheveningen – bakery, cafe & lunch

Rotterdam

nordic seamen churches rotterdam
finnish food cafe in the netherlands

Norwegian, Danish, Finnish seamen churches & cultural houses with shops

Utrecht

swedish cafe broodnodig utrecht
broodnodig utrecht swedish cafe

Broodnodig – 2 locations: Mariaplaats (near station) and Paardenvel (with bakery, but closed on weekends).

Nijmegen

smorrebrod nijmegen fika
tuna-cheese, salmon and shrimp open face sandwiches

FIKA – high fika, lunch with smørrebrød and knäckebröd. Has Naturfrisk drinks! possible to use your laptop at the café

Hengelo

Røllesmølle – fika, lunch. Of typical Nordic I only see kanelbulle, kladdkaka among ‘fika låckers’ (läckers?) though

Maastricht

Bikke – Restaurant – breakfast & lunch with Smørrebrød, wienerbrød, pariserbøf, Danish hotdogs, Swedish flatbread. New Nordic dinner.

Belgium & Luxemburg

Antwerp

Nordica 31 – bakery, fika, café, lunch

Bruxelles

  • Nordic Fine Foods – shops in Bruxelles and Waterloo
  • Scanshop

Luxemburg

Scanshop +Nordbo – shop with cafe & bakery

Nordic brands and food in supermarkets ..

In the Netherlands I have seen köttbullar at LIDL and kttbullar with mash and peas as Igloo ready meal.

Albert Heijn to-go had cinnamon and cardamom buns for a while around summer 2025, while AH and Jumbo supermarkets had cardamom buns marketed as winter buns around Christmas of the same year. All of these got discontinued.

nordic buns cinnamon bun cardamom bun albert heijn
Albert Heijn to go kaneel knot & cardamom knot
Albert Heijn ”winter bun” very soft cardamom
Jumbo cardamom knot


The Danish brands Normal, Søstrene Grene andTIGER also sell some Scandinavian sweets.

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