Eating in Schoorl: where you can sit, and where it gets busy
Schoorl has roughly three eating areas: the square at the foot of the Klimduin, the wood around cycle junction 47, and the Heereweg, the road through the village. The Klimduin is the busiest on warm days; the wood is quieter, but you have to walk or cycle to it.
Schoorl sits behind the dunes on the Noord-Holland coast, about an hour鈥檚 drive north of Amsterdam. The square below the Klimduin, the climbing dune, is where almost everyone ends up: you park by the Roode Leeuw, walk up the dune and then drop onto a terrace with a view of that slope of sand. That is pleasant, and on a sunny Sunday in July it is full.
Where is it quieter?
In the wood. Around junction 47 of the Dutch cycle-route network, in the Schoorlse Duinen (the Schoorl dunes), there are places you can reach only by bike or on foot, and that filters the crowd by itself. You pay the same prices there and you sit between the pines instead of between the parked cars.
The third option is the Heereweg, the road that runs through the village. There you are neither at the dune nor in the wood, but you are within walking distance of where you sleep.
When do I need to book?
On fine days between May and September, and over the Christmas holidays. Outside that period you can nearly always simply walk in. Note that some of the places run limited days in winter; that is listed per business on its own page.
How is this order decided?
The order below is not for sale. We sort on the Google rating, then on the number of reviews, then on the distance to the beach access. Whoever is at the top is there because guests put them there.