About this app

The de Buik app helps you quickly find a restaurant that suits you, selected by the food experts at De Buik. De Buik is the award-winning platform for the local food culture in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Utrecht with more than 1,500 food and drinks businesses in its database, supported by more than 4,000 journalistic stories about the best restaurants, bistros, brasseries, pizzerias, bakeries, breakfast shops, lunchrooms and the best coffee shops, cocktail bars, wine bars, cafes, bars, beach bars and terraces.

The Buik app uses your (GPS) location to clearly arrange the best things in your area for you. The app has the best and most current information on these matters. This always consists of a short reason why you should eat or drink here and beautiful photos of the business. You can click on for more detailed explanations per case on more than 70 criteria, such as design, type of cuisine (Italian, Chinese, Mexican or, for example, pizza, sushi or burgers) and you can read journalistic stories about all things that make them so special.

This app is the ideal complement to de Buik and the perfect partner for when you go into town and want to make the best choices where to eat or drink, alone, with your loved one or with friends, business or private.

This app lets you:
Easily find on the map where good restaurants are
Read all the tips from De Buik about restaurants, cafes and bars in an overview
Save your own favorites
Quickly contact the found restaurant
Quickly find your way via Google or Apple Maps to the restaurant
Read extensively about the tips of the Belly
Share your own tips with the Belly and with your friends in the app

About de Buik
You live in the city or go to a city and want to eat somewhere, but where? You hear everyone about hip new tents, cool pop-ups and new rooftops, but your head is always empty when you want to eat somewhere. And actually you don't even remember what that one place you really had to be was called, so you end up back at the grand café where you've always been. Recognizable? For more than a million people in and around Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Utrecht, yes. How does de Buik know? Because she has been providing these food lovers with beautiful stories and an extensive restaurant guide for years, and in this way advises them well about where they should eat that day. You can read our tips in the de Buik app!

New features

We have fixed a few bugs and the flow of sharing and receiving lists of favourite places is improved.

App Permissions

Allows an application to read the user's contacts data.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.