Saturday

5. Morning Roast, 9 a.m.

For a coffee shop experience that will clear your head with beans, not bud, visit Bocca Coffee, a Dutch roastery that opened its first retail location in October. Of the city’s many new third-wave coffee specialists, this is the finest. Baristas pull perfect espressos, accompanied by tasting notes for your beans, amid an eminently Instagrammable interior — wood-plank bar, hanging plants and parquet-wood benches.

6. Home Grown, 10 a.m.

Tulips aren’t the only things growing in the Netherlands. For proof, follow locals to Boerenmarkt, an organic weekly market on Noordermarkt. On this pretty square, Dutch farmers and food purveyors set up booths overflowing with the local bounty: veggie-packed quiches, live crayfish, wild Seussian mushrooms and giant wheels of Dutch cheese speckled with herbs and fennel. The best breakfast is a few freshly shucked oysters, popped open at the stand run by an oysterman (€2 to €3 each).

7. Superior Interiors, 11:30 a.m.

The sprawling Noord district, north of the IJ waterway, was once viewed as a wild no-man’s-land. But today the industrial environs, easily reached by free ferry, are home to upstart creative enterprises as well as two of the city’s coolest vintage design stores. At Neef Louis Design, enormous warehouses are packed to the rafters with everything from midcentury chairs and industrial light fixtures to giant spotlights for your next film shoot. The adjacent Van Dijk en Ko is equally vast yet slightly more organized, with an entire room of lampshades and a pile of antique sleighs among the multitudinous offerings.

8. Food Hall Fame, 2 p.m.

To be a cutting-edge European capital these days, having an impressive indoor food hall is practically a prerequisite. Enter Amsterdam’s Foodhallen, which opened in a former tram depot in 2014 with about two dozen stalls, many occupied by well-known local businesses. For lunch, hit the highlights, starting with De BallenBar’s truffle bitterballen (traditional Dutch croquettes) and a local craft beer like the chile-and-coriander-infused Thai Thai Tripel from Oedipus Brewing. Then proceed to Viet View for a stupendous banh mi with caramelized pork belly with cucumber, pickled carrots and daikon. Finish with a drink at the gin-and-tonic bar, where the made-in-Holland Vording’s Gin is served in a Spanish-style goblet garnished with red-apple slices and a cinnamon stick. Lunch for two, about €30.

9. Wall Works, 4 p.m.

The rich tradition of Dutch art didn’t end with Mondrian and Neoplasticism, as contemporary galleries along the Prinsengracht will attest. Bright Side Gallery, housed in a former garage looking over the canal, features rotating exhibitions like a recent solo show of somber paintings from the up-and-coming Dutch artist Wouter Nijland. Farther north at GO Gallery, the city’s pre-eminent street art space presents genre-busting works ranging from provocative to psychedelic, and is across the street from a cute multistory mural by the London Police group.

10. Dinner Distilled, 7:30 p.m.

On the waterfront near the central station, a 100-year-old former distillery has been transformed into a multipurpose space containing a clubhouse for creative professionals, and for the rest of us, a ground-floor restaurant with a similarly imaginative bent. This airy bistro, Choux, opened last year serving multicourse menus (from €33) with mysteriously terse descriptions that bloom into complex dishes like a recent entree of vacherin melted atop wood blewit mushrooms with crisp artichoke thistle and purslane. For a digestif, walk to nearby Porem, a year-old speakeasy serving classic cocktails, whose only sign is a discreet golden plaque beside a buzzer.

11. Center Stage, 11 p.m.

You shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but music venues are a different story. At least that’s the sense one gets while admiring the ornate wooden facade brightened with bold primary colors at Occii (Onafhankelijk Cultureel Centrum In It). This alternative music space is a former squat that hasn’t shed its underground spirit. Programming is decentralized, so various independent groups command the stage nightly with events that hit nearly every note on the musical spectrum, from death metal to jazz trios and post-punk to East-European folk. Times and ticket prices vary; check the website.