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This is a really good advice all round. Although best pizza place is Fuoco Vivo or Nnea, both in lovely Oud-West. But then again I love the Napolitan pizza dough.
Oh and creditcard is not a thing in Amsterdam, only at tourist traps you can pay with creditcards ;)
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Pizza Beppe is neapolitan too ;) I chose that one cos they have a few around the city and they're usually pretty easy to get a table on the door. nNea and Fuoco Vivo are great, as are Mangia and probably my favourite at the moment: La Zoccola Paccione (right in the middle of the horrible Kalverstraat, it looks like an awful tourist trap but it's really good pizza).
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Oh and creditcard is not a thing in Amsterdam, only at tourist traps you can pay with creditcards ;)
In my experience places will reluctantly take mastercard over cash when the tourist doesn't have a pin card.
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Nef
I live in Amsterdam, so feel free to message me for more specific suggestions:
Renting bikes - really wouldn't recommend fixed gears unless you plan on leaving the city and going out into the countryside. As @nefarious (hi mate!) says, upright and leisurely is best, and a coaster / pedal brake is a lazy man's fixed gear anyway. Black Bikes have pretty low-key rental bikes.
Skateboarding - Amsterdam has one decent indoor park, Skatepark Noord. Round the corner there's also SkateCafe, a big bar restaurant that has a concrete halfpipe that's fair game unless there's a music event on. A little out of the centre is an outdoor park that's apparently the biggest in NL. There's an outdoor bowl on Marnixstraat. It's not a very skateboard city in terms of cruising around, most people bike to skatespots etc.
Get the best cookies in the world at Van Stapele.
Top five food spots: Sapporo for Ramen, Semai for Ethiopian, Tigris & Eufraat for crazy cheap falafel, Pizza Beppe for pizza, Caldi e Freddi for very cheap Italian sandwiches and calzones (!).
Top five (beer) drinking places: Gollem, Oedipus, De Engelbewaarder, Butcher's Tears, Cafe Soundgarden.
The weather can be soul-crushingly awful, especially in winter. Bring a waterproof that you don't mind wearing all day. For multiple days.