Amsterdam · ice cream
Van der Linde
An 88-year-old, still family-run, single-recipe whipped-cream ice cream shop that churns fresh every morning above its own counter — the clearest example in Amsterdam of Dutch (not Italian) ice cream culture, validated by a citywide reader vote in a respected heritage magazine.
What to order
slagroomijs (the whipped-cream ice cream, folded rather than topped)
What we know
- Founded 1937 by the current owners' grandfather; still run by the family, brothers Lars and Maikel van der Linde (Ons Amsterdam)
- Ice cream is churned fresh every morning in the workshop above the shop (Ons Amsterdam)
- Distinctive production method: whipped cream is worked directly into the ice cream itself, not added as a separate dollop on top (Ons Amsterdam)
- Extremely narrow product range by design — slagroomijs (whipped-cream ice cream), slagroom truffels and slagroom mergpijpjes are essentially the only products sold, cash only (Ons Amsterdam)
- Tied for 3rd/4th place (with kitchenware shop Duikelman) in Ons Amsterdam readers' vote for Amsterdam's best-loved classic specialty shop, out of an eight-shop shortlist; one reader wrote they travel from Almere specifically for the ice cream (Ons Amsterdam, 2024)
- Interior — green-flamed tiles and purple cabinets — dates to a 1978 renovation and has been deliberately left unchanged (Ons Amsterdam)
- Status
- open
- Address
- Nieuwendijk / Beurspassage (hoek), Amsterdam
- Maker
- Brothers Lars and Maikel van der Linde, grandsons of the founder
- Opened
- 1937
- Last checked
- 2026-08-21
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