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Soulpicks is a community of people you can trust. Our experts are passionate people within a particular category or locals who know their town. Follow them and get inspired.

Food

Andy Hayler

Food expert • London

Andy Hayler

Restaurant critic and author.

I’m a freelance food writer, restaurant critic and author and I’ve been a regular guest critic on BBC’s “Masterchef: The Professionals” I am also the only person to have eaten at every three-star Michelin restaurant in the world.

Susam Pang

Food expert • Amsterdam

Susam Pang

Founder of Amsterdam Ramen Festival

Founder Amsterdam Ramen Festival | co-creator of the Foodbloggers Award | Serious foodie

Ron Simpson

Food expert • Amsterdam

Ron Simpson

Founder Restaurant The Avocado Show

Founder of the first all-avocado restaurant of Amsterdam and serial entrepreneur. The Avocado Show is the hotline for good food, amazing events, and city secrets. Also, avocado aficionado.

Anne de Graaf

Food expert • Amsterdam

Anne de Graaf

Anne Travel Foodie

My name is Anne, also known as Anne Travel Foodie. I live in the Netherlands and I love to travel and to eat good food. 

Tanja Klein Nijenhuis

Food expert • Groningen

Tanja Klein Nijenhuis

Owner Michelin Star Restaurant

Herberg Onder de Linden, a Michelin Star restaurant in Groningen. Sommelier and lover of all the good wines.

Guus Thijssen

Food expert • Amsterdam

Guus Thijssen

Gastronomic Storyteller

Guus (Guustronomie) is a storyteller and advocate for inspiring chefs, restaurateurs and artisans, who are making and serving good food. Guus organizes and presents dinners, food tours, cooking demos, and workshops.

Jarko Barten

Food expert • Deventer

Jarko Barten

Chief Editor of Horeca Magazine

Chief Editor of Horeca Magazine and BCBG Magazine with an appetite for extraordinary restaurants - 2 kiddo’s - Happily together with my girl - Traveling the globe (soon again) - Instagram: jarkobarten

Saskia Neirinckx

Food expert • Antwerp

Saskia Neirinckx

Great food eater and coffee addict.

PR pro. Great food eater. Coffee addict. Stiletto fetishist. Spike’s mom. I’ll put a spell on you. 💜

Restaurant Week Singapore

Food expert • Singapore

Restaurant Week Singapore

30 Mar - 19 Apr 2020

The Singapore Restaurant Week has become a well known dining event in Singapore over the past decade, with its straightforward offering: a 3-course lunch menu starting from sgd 28++ and a 3-course dinner menu starting from sgd 38++ at selected restaurants in Singapore.

Baaf Vonk

Food expert • Amsterdam

Baaf Vonk

Fishmonger and Oyster Shucker

Former pigroaster and fishmonger, i am a culinairy centipede focused on quality food

Olaf van Gerwen

Food expert • Amsterdam

Olaf van Gerwen

Creative Director of Food Marketing.

Founder of Chuck Studios - where food goes to get famous. I like my food delish, my beats filthy and my bass loud. Preferably in small-scale venues.

Lex Ouburg

Food expert • Rotterdam

Lex Ouburg

Restaurant enthusiast and connaisseur

Organizer of Tasty Walk, see tastywalk.com. Into food & drinks, golf and art.

Betty Marais

Food expert • Brussels, Paris, Le Havre

Betty Marais

Food Evangelist

Food evangelist / media director for L’air du temps** and Sang Hoon Degeimbre

Wine

Johann Duedahl Jacobsen

Wine expert • Copenhagen

Johann Duedahl Jacobsen

Founder of Ancestrale wine bar. Always on the lookout for clean and vibrant wines 🔥

Katy Gaffney

Wine expert • Berlin

Katy Gaffney

Wine nerd

Wine nerd who splits her time between Jaja Berlin and Viniculture GmbH. Passionate about natural and low-intervention winemaking, Van Morrison, & laminated pastries

Robin van Bastelaar

Wine expert • Zwolle

Robin van Bastelaar

De Librije

Fine wine and good food connoisseur at 3-Michelin Star restaurant De Librije. Previously Sommelier at Michelin star restaurant Herberg onder de Linden.

Beer

Patrick Ejlerskov

Beer expert • København

Patrick Ejlerskov

Owner of Westbryg Central

Assitant professor in Neuroscience and Immunology at University of Copenhagen and owner of the microbrewery WestEnd BrygCentral. Addicted to beer, music, and life.

Magnus Svensson

Beer expert • Helsingborg

Magnus Svensson

Founder Benchwarmers Brewing Co

Previously - Owner of BrewDog Sweden. Currently - Co-founder of Benchwarmers Brewing Co.

Philip Arhelger

Beer expert • Berlin

Philip Arhelger

Mikkeller Berlin

Serving the finest beers & fun at Mikkeller Berlin. 🍻Cabinetmaker & Designer. Family & food! ❤️

Jonathan Winters

Beer expert • Copenhagen

Jonathan Winters

Craft Beer and Coffee

Mikkeller Export Manager. I enjoy Craft Beer, Coffee, Natural Wines, Museums, Music, Travel, Good People & Discovering new places.

Dimitri Van Roy

Beer expert • Brussels

Dimitri Van Roy

Beer Expert

Geek-In-Chief at Brussels Beer Project.

Rick Nelson

Beer expert • Amsterdam

Rick Nelson

Co-Founder Oedipus Brewery

Red Light Radio DJ, radio maker, co-founder of Oedipus Brewing, and organizer of the Kimchi Beer Festival. Lover of high and low cuisine and dancing. Let’s have a beer!

Cocktail

Kasper Riewe-Høgh

Cocktail expert • Copenhagen

Kasper Riewe-Høgh

Bartending owner of Duck and Cover Bar in Copenhagen.

Peter Shaw

Cocktail expert • Copenhagen

Peter Shaw

Bartender & Beverage Manager

Bartended & managed award winning cocktail bars in Australia, Norway & Denmark. Currently Beverage Manager for cocktail bar Salon39 & restaurants Mes, Meille & Spazio 26 in Copenhagen.

Yen Pham

Cocktail expert • Brussels

Yen Pham

Owner + Founder Yi Chan.

Brusselaar with Asian roots and Owner + Founder Yi Chan.

Mads Voorhoeve

Cocktail expert • Amsterdam

Mads Voorhoeve

Owner European Bartender School Amsterdam

Owner of the European Bartender School in Amsterdam and Sepp Hospitality, bartender with over 16 years of experience and a real Amsterdammer!

Tim Vanderhaeghen

Cocktail expert • Oudenaarde

Tim Vanderhaeghen

Booze and Cocktail Spots

Rum, whisky, gin and other poisons.Love to visit booze and cocktailspots.From time to time I also like restaurants and beers🥃🍹🍸🍺🍴www.timstasting.be

David Lebeer

Cocktail expert • Gent

David Lebeer

2018 Best Belgian Bartender

Bartender and Japan enthusiast.

Coffee

Jens Crabbé

Coffee expert • Brussels

Jens Crabbé

Owner of MOK Specialty Coffee Roastery & Bar

Owner of MOK Specialty Coffee Roastery & Bar Brussels and Leuven.

Dimitrios Kafkas

Coffee expert • Antwerp

Dimitrios Kafkas

Professional Greek barista. Coffee diploma owner from SCA. Belgian latte art champion 2021🏆. Let’s talk about coffee! ASK ME

Melanie D. Nunes

Coffee expert • Gent

Melanie D. Nunes

Founder Tropix Barista

Founder of Tropix Barista Paradise in Gent.

Seulgi Lee

Coffee expert • Berlin

Seulgi Lee

Head Barista at The Visit Coffee

Happiest butterfly in the world/ Black coffee enthusiast/ Baby coffee roaster

Dani Bordiniuc

Coffee expert • Amsterdam

Dani Bordiniuc

Head barista at Lot Sixty One Coffee Roasters

Former corporate turned coffee professional. Live and breathe everything coffee. Passionate home brewer.

André Krüger

Coffee expert • Hamburg | Berlin

André Krüger

Co-founder at Third Wave Wichteln.

@bosch on Instagram. I ❤️ ☕️, 🍺 & 🍸. Co-founder @thirdwavewichteln.

Alex Kitain

Coffee expert • Amsterdam

Alex Kitain

Coffee addict, entrepreneur, writer and travel map creator.

I love connecting people, creating content and showing my friends where to find the best-kept secrets from Mexico to Tokyo.Follow me to be part of my journey.

Art

Joram Roukes

Art • Amsterdam

Joram Roukes

Visual Artist | Muralist

Amsterdam-based visual artist, global muralist, and good food connoisseur. Exhibitions in cities such as Paris, Berlin, Los Angeles, and New York.

Manon Wertenbroek

Art • Amsterdam | Paris

Manon Wertenbroek

Visual Artist

Swiss/Dutch visual artist. Currently living in Paris and teaching at Ecal, Lausanne, Switzerland. Food lover. Known from Foam Magazine, id-UK, The Guardian, British Journal of Photography, and the Swiss Art & Design Award.

Haco de Ridder

Art • Ouderkerk aan de Amstel

Haco de Ridder

Museums, Bars and Restaurants

I travel the world to explore cultural hotspots, museums, and artist initiatives for the Mondriaan Fund and, for my personal interest, bars and restaurants. Before I worked as a freelancer with different national and international commissioners in the fields of the visual arts.

Music

Philip Powel

Music • Rotterdam

Philip Powel

Artistic Director of Venue Bird

Founder and artistic director of Bird Rotterdam and winner of Laurenspenning.

Detroit Swindle

Music • Amsterdam

Detroit Swindle

Electronic House Music Duo

Detroit Swindle (Lars Dales and Maarten Smeets) is an electronic house music duo from Amsterdam, touring around the globe finding places to eat and buy records. Lars and Maarten founded the record label Heist Recordings.

Otto Kraanen

Music • Amsterdam

Otto Kraanen

Owner Record Label Bordello A Parigi

Owner of record label and shop Bordello A Parigi, Italo Disco enthusiast and DJ.

Local

Mary Scherpe

Local • Berlin

Mary Scherpe

Stil in Berlin

After over 16 years in Berlin and over 13 years writing and photographing it for my channel Stil in Berlin, I got a pretty good grip what the city is about. Berlin is constantly re-defining its uniqueness, so everyone wants a piece of this invigorating blend of old and new.

Tash & Marthe Breakingthedistance

Local • London

Tash & Marthe Breakingthedistance

Vegan LGBTQ+

A passionate vegan LGBTQ+ travel couple living in London. Also regularly in Amsterdam. Follow our journey to find new vegan and LGBTQ+ places all over the world. 🏳️‍🌈🥑🇬🇧🇳🇱🌍

Sophie Van der Perre

Local • Amsterdam

Sophie Van der Perre

Fashion Photographer

Photographer based in Amsterdam, represented by Halal and Carole Lambert.

Geet Khosla

Local • Copenhagen

Geet Khosla

Coffee and Food

Serial Entrepreneur + Advisor. Love delicious food, great coffee, natural wine, whisky and anything Italian. 😊🤘🏽

Lilian Stolk

Local • Amsterdam

Lilian Stolk

Founder Art Platform The Hmm

Emoji researcher, co-founder of The Hmm (a platform for contemporary visual arts), historian, illustrator, and writer of Het Zonder Woordenboek.

Daan de Greef

Local • Amsterdam

Daan de Greef

Owner Baskèts Store

I started as a student at the Design Academy in Eindhoven, before finding my creative outlet in building the Baskèts Company from scratch in 2012. Baskèts connects and unites sneaker culture, street culture, and contemporary fashion.

Victor Abeln

Local • Amsterdam

Victor Abeln

Bartender and First Dates TV Show

Bartender with a love for love. Known from First Dates. Self Proclaimed first date location scout.

Shon Price

Local • Amsterdam

Shon Price

All things Vegan

Plantbased Graphic Artisan. Check out my places for Vegan restaurants and locations of murals I paint.

Bas Koopmans

Local • Amsterdam

Bas Koopmans

Art Director

Amsterdam based Graphic Designer and Art Director and partner at Unfair Amsterdam, a biannual art fair for young artist.

Aukje Dekker

Local • Amsterdam

Aukje Dekker

Founder nightclub SEXYLAND

Founder of conceptual nightclub SEXYLAND in Amsterdam Noord, visual artist and founder of The Eddie the Eagle Museum - for the Art of Trying').

Dean Hughes

Local • Amsterdam

Dean Hughes

I am the Head Concierge of the DoubleTree by Hilton Amsterdam CS. I have been looking after guests for the past twenty years - seven of those in London and the last thirteen in this fantastic city!

Jeroen Disch

Local • Amsterdam

Jeroen Disch

Design Lead at GRRR

Design Director at digital design agency Bravoure, type lover (especially the soft G) and author of newsletter Halfvet.

Nicolas Adam

Local • Amsterdam

Nicolas Adam

Kombucha Brewer and Chef

Brewer and owner at Leave Your Sword, the first kombucha brewery with an alcohol permit. Former Chef De Cuisine at De Ceuvel. French Chef cook trained at ESCF Gregoire Ferrandi. When I'm not brewing or bottling, I'm either cooking or shaking some new kombucha cocktail.

Dimitri Madimin

Local • Amsterdam

Dimitri Madimin

Art, Music and Cultural Expert

Dr. Madimin AKA Dim Browski • Visual Artist, Researcher, Composer, DJ and Cultural Expert based in Amsterdam. • Founder of Ruyzdael, KISS Escort and SugarFREE.network

Ju Buosi

Local • São Paulo

Ju Buosi

Photographer and visual artist

Curator of local coffee places and speakeasy bars. 14/100 best bars in the world (2021) and counting... Nice coffee places to start the day, museums and art places in the middle and great bars to finish it. 🇧🇷🍸☕️📷🧘🏻

Lora Terrade

Local • Tokyo - Barcelona - Paris - Bahia

Lora Terrade

Follow the steps of a hospitality professional on a world wide journey to found best food&beverage experiences 🤍Have a look to my special Japanese selection 🇯🇵 Enjoy the best of natural wine list🍷

Marloes Wardenier

Local • Amsterdam

Marloes Wardenier

Spending most of my leisure time dining out (from fancy to simple eateries), traveling (weird) places, and going to arthouse movies, museums and concerts | Scrum master & agile coach, voluntary work, Ajax, and cycling the flat roads of the Netherlands | ❌❌❌🚴🏼‍♀️🚂🏔🍽🎬🏛🍻👻

Lifestyle

Carolina Oda

Lifestyle • São Paulo

Carolina Oda

Profissional da gastronomia há mais de 15 anos, com rodinhas nos pés pelos bares, cafés, confeitarias, restaurantes e afins, seja trabalhando, seja curtindo com o olhar profissional, seja só a lazer. Repertório vasto por esse Brasilzão e alguns países.

Talita Ribeiro

Lifestyle • Sommervile

Talita Ribeiro

I was a professional tourist for over 10 years until I started taking care of robots and became just a traveler for pleasure!I live close and far enough from NY, which is one of my places in the world, as well as SP, SF, Erbil... And many of Italo Calvino's invisible cities.

Marina Storch

Lifestyle • São Paulo

Marina Storch

Viajante apaixonada por lugares e pessoas! Sempre em busca daquele lugar especial para um vinho ou um café. 53 países explorados. 📍Copenhague

Camila Gregurincic

Lifestyle • Buenos Aires

Camila Gregurincic

Solo Traveler ⎪ Writer ⎪ Coffee & Foodie Guides ∴ Here I’m sharing my travels experiences to help you find amazing coffee spots, local restaurants, bars and libraries! Enjoy ♡

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