This former soup kitchen, where sharing tables is still the norm, offers the best and most economic foray into the satiating world of traditional Dutch cooking. As reassuring as a Dutch grandmother, the kitchen serves such warming singularities as hutspot (a hotchpotch of potatoes, carrots, and onions), its more free-ranging variant stamppot (a stew of potatoes, greens, and chunks of cured sausage), erwtensoep (a sausage-fortified pea soup so thick you could eat it with a toothpick), and, naturally, a full range of meat, fish, vegetable, and potato plates. After a spell of bad luck -- namely bankruptcy -- its future is somewhat uncertain (though it is impossible to imagine the city without it), so call ahead to check.