NAKED CITY

Holland Film Promotion

"What I really missed when I was living abroad is the variety of Indonesian restaurants you can find in Amsterdam," says Holland Film Promotion's international desk executive, Amsterdam-born Claudia Landsberger. As she sees it, Indonesian cuisine is something "typically Dutch. But you can find all sorts of foreign food in Amsterdam."

Landsberger's personal favourites are restaurants like Zabar's (Van Baarlestraat), with its Mediterranean cuisine, which, "unfortunately always seems to be fully booked", the African food at Kilimanjaro (Kadijksplein), and, of course, Garage where maître Joop serves his ecclectic dishes to all sorts of local celebrities and wannabe's. For a drink, Landsberger prefers to go to Lexingtons or Vertigo, both situated at the Film Museum: 'especially for the interesting conversations you can have with filmmakers and film fans."

Landsberger's favourite neighbourhood is the Nieuwmarkt area where she lives. "It's one of the oldest neighbourhoods, with an extremely rich history. It used to be the Jewish centre. Today, however, its population is multicultural."

Amsterdam is also one of the few capital cities in the world where large numbers of people use bicycles as their main form of transport: "Something the city authorities support with their special parking regulations."