Anglo-Dutch
all things Dutch in the UK

Dutch goods from mail-order & internet  shops in the Netherlands and abroad

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Businesses catering to the Dutch abroad include:

• All that Dutch - an internet shop with a range of Dutch goodies. AllThatDutch
• Bizen Shop - a Dutch lady married to a Frenchman started this webshop in March 2006. www.bizen-shop.com
• Boodschappen uit Holland - the first newsletter from this on-line shop (in May 2006) shows all manner of more durable goods, like T-shirts supporting the Oranje side in the world soccer / voetbal championships, chocolate tulips, and ‘schminck’ - face paint. From the February 2008 Newsletter: Boodschappenuitholland charges only the carriage cost as charged by TNTpost - the Dutch mail service.  www.boodschappenuitholland.nl updated 4 jun 08
• Brood Nodig shop - Dutch for “ a shop selling things as indispensible as bread” opened some while ago, Wendy de Graeve and Koen Blondeel recently drew my attention to it. There are - unique amongst shops so far - a Dutch and a Belgian section. Each with over 200 articles. www.broodnodigshop.nl
• Bruna - a station kiosk and high street chain supplies Dutch books. Bruna.nl/expats
• Drop-it - a real shop in the Lange Kerkstraat in Schiedam, with an on-line presence in addition, at //verkoop.drop-it.nl/verkoop/index.html
• Dropje can supply your dropjes (Dutch liquorice).  E:  jeroen@dropworld.nl W: www.dropje.nl 
• Dropwinkel can also supply your dropjes (Dutch liquorice) - from Koeln in Germany.  E:   W: www.dutchlicorice-onlineshop.com   added 20 mar 05, based on the firm’s e-mail submission
• Drop Shop - Hilary Zayed’s mail-order shop delivering ‘dropjes’ (Dutch liquorice) to your door. E:  Drop Shop. source: postal mailshot. 
• Dutch Candy Store - in Gouda, for your sweet tooth. They do now mention their real address, Veenenburg 19, Gouda. W: www.dutchcandystore.com added 09 feb 05
• Dutch Corner Shop - does not include a street address, which seems the least one can do when one expects to take payment; the web-editor would for now avoid an enterprise where there is no easy way to get in touch. W: www.dutchcornershop.nl
• Dutch Food Com - does not include a street address either, nor a chamber of commerce registration number; it may be hard to get in touch from abroad if e-mail queries were not handled to your satisfaction. www.dutchfood.com
• Dutch Groceries can also be bought at - you guessed this first time ‘round, I expect - from www.dutchgroceries.nl There is a clearly marked page dealing with postage costs, 8 Euro for up to 2kg, 44 Euro for 20 to 30 kg, is often the stumbling block - and that is inside Europe.
• Dutch Inspirations - a little Dutch gift shop on a farm, supplying a large range of Dutch food. Reputed to be the largest importer of Dutch food in the UK. Since 1999. Battlers Green Farm, Common Lane, Radlett, Herts., WD7 8PH. T: 01923 850 044 F: 01923 670 883. W:  www.dutchinspirations.com E:  rob@dutchinspirations.com) source: e-mails in early 2005, followed by the web-editor’s telephone call to the shop. Result: the original //dutchinspirations.co.uk domain is under control of a web-hosting provider, and points to an outdated version of the site.
• Dutch Specials - was set up by the Brinkman family after their round-the-world trip. They found a need for Dutch products, and have decided to fill that void. They seem very active, as they have recently added a number of unique items, which no Dutchman can do without. These include those little paper Dutch flags which adorn cubes of Dutch cheese at drinks parties, orange and red-white-blue ribbon -excellent to put on your dress or in a button hole for the Koninginnedag receptie- Dutch themed ties, those delicious Mentos soft centre / hard shell mints, Wybertjes -the one thing any Dutchman would swear clears the throat when Heineken fails- and the indispensible poffertjes pan - although one or two other shops now carry these as well. W: www.dutchspecials.com is the address to go to. updated 22 apr 05, based on e-mail submission. 
• Dutch Store com - a shop with a wider assortment than just groceries. Pottery, magazines, even ‘exclusive animal products’ (whatever that may entail, turns out they are cat and dog tags with a difference ...). Ton Snijders and his wife are former expats, and there is no doubt that they have greater empathy than those who stumbled on the idea when they lacked pindakaas (peanut butter) during their holiday in Auvergne. www.dutchstore.com
• Dutch Taste - www.dutchtaste.com Dutch Taste, Dutch Taste, Postbus 146, 2100 AC Heemstede, have an internet shop with a large assortment, and allow payment by cheque for those who prefer this. added 20 nov 04, based on the firm’s e-mail submission Old contact address: P.O. Box 4025, 2003 EA  Haarlem
• Eucalypta - Nederlands snoepgoed / Dutch sweets. W: Eucalypta.nl
• Feestpak - one page which leads to several pages where gifts from the Netherlands can be ordered. www.feestpak.nl
• From Holland - Dick and Wil ran a Stroopwafelkraam (market stall where they bake fresh those thin wafers which are ‘glued together’ with a special recipy sugary syrup) at Dutch street markets for over 15 years. They decided on a new challenge, selling stroopwafels to the British. And they’re good at it - see their website for the when and where. In addition, there is a webshop (run by their daughter Monique with son-in-law Marc) with a fine selection of Dutch goodies which complements other webshops well. W: www.fromholland.co.uk  source: e-mail, 23 & 24 mar 05
• Holland at Home - another web-shop with a good selection of Dutch products for those living too far away to regularly buy their own, although prices seem rather - well - pricey. www.holland-at-home.nl
• Holland by mail com is one of many country specific sites operated by an entity which I can not at first sigh establish. They were mentioned in a report by www.wereldexpat.nl .
• Holland Feestpakket - Judith assembles and mails packages containing specific Dutch treats - such as speculaas, strooigoed, banketstaaf, drop and much more. W: hfp.nl 
• Holland Products is run by Ton Visser and Angelique Dikkers - the only people to present their faces on their website. www.holland-products.com
• Hollandse Drop - since 2002, a real shop and an on-line presence. www.hollandsedrop.com
• Hollandse Producten - Ger Jonkeren brought his web-shop to our attention in October 2005. We will undoubtedly see the assortment grow as customers bring other products which they could not get hold of elsewhere to his attention. www.hollandseproducten.nl
• Holland Shopping is run by Culinaire Plaza in the Breedestraat in Doesburg, an useful addition is the little box which allows to search for products by specific suppliers only. www.Holland-shopping.com
• Holland Web Winkel - yet another web-based shop, with 743 products at last count. Postage at standard TNT postal package rates. W: www.hollandwebwinkel.nl
• Holland Winkel - Indische Rijsttafel ingredienten and Delftware set this shop apart from others. E: sales@hollandwinkel.nl P: P.O. Box 33, 1140 AA  Monnickendam W: www.hollandwinkel.nl  added 050111, found via copernic.com basic search tool.
• Home Sweet Holland is a shop selling specific Dutch breakfast treats (‘De Ruijter’), cookies and liquorice (mainly speculaasjes and ‘Venco’ drop), specific Dutch condiments (‘Calve and Gouda’s Glorie sauzen’), Other (‘Koopmans’ mixen, stroop and erwtensoep), and non-food items such as a poffertjes pan and little Dutch flag cocktail sticks. www.homesweetholland.co.uk/catalog/, P: Home Sweet Holland, 46 Broom Avenue, Manchester M19 2UD T: 0161 612 8192 or by text message: 0790 3456 395,  E: www.homesweetholland.co.uk/catalog/contact_us.php E: info@homesweetholland.co.uk  W: www.homesweetholland.co.uk
• INTDIST is a shop with a difference, in that they ship goods from many well known dutch shops, including De Bijenkorf (well stocked upper echelon department store), Hulshof (upper echelon furniture shop), IKEA mass market furniture), Overtoom (providers of anything you’d need to kit out your office or store room) and VerSier (huge garden toys and play things). They even have electrical transformers in their assortment. www.intdist.nl .
• Kiekeboe Snoepgoed is a webshop with a visual difference, their entry page looks good, their address in Gorinchem is included. www.kiekeboesnoepgoed.nl
• Lekker Hollands - the dutch language version of an on-line kruidenier - a ‘web grocer’, by Ron and Ank Tol, of a company called Pear, in Hoorn. W: www.lekker-hollands.nl E: info@lekker-hollands.nl updated: 20 oct 2005
• Made in Holland is yet another entrant in the web-shops race, from the Jonker Fransstraat in Rotterdam. They seem to have a rather minute assortment for now. www.made-in-holland.net
• poffertjesshop is a US based resource which - alone amongst all whom I surveyed - offers large professional baking systems. www.poffertjesshop.com
• Post een kaartje - send a real postcard to someone in the Netherlands, but so far only with a computer typeface. Perhaps they will one day accept a scanned image of the actual text you wrote, and print that on the card. The cost seems reasonable, at Eur 2.50 per card. www.posteenkaartje.nl 
• Real Dutch Food can also be bought at - you guessed it - www.realdutchfood.com Aschwin van Fessem alerted me to his well laid-out shop in September 2006.
• Replica ship models. It started as a hobby of the husband, and grew into a small business for the wife: selling models of ships. The Dutch Golden Age, nostalgic fishing boats, and Tall Ships are some of the items on offer at www.masterpieceshipcollection.nl. E: masterpieceshipcollection@holla.com source: e-mail submission.
• Stroopwafelshop is built along the same lines as Poffertjesshop, with industrial strength equipment and a recipe which sounds workable. Both seems subsidiaries of www.hollandbymail.com  www.stroopwafelshop.com .
• Theater Boek Winkel - a dutch bookshop which specialises in anything to do with performing arts - website in Dutch only. They have a bookshop, rare books etc., a large DVD and video collection, and sheet music. Genres ondermeer: cabaret, Nederlandse muziek, theater, toneel teksten, ballet en dans, film, maar ook circus en kermis, opera, operette en oratoria. W: theaterboekwinkel.nl  T: 0031 33 465 7562  source: e-mail 19 apr 05
• The Holland Shop have a real address on their site, in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, and a good looking website. www.thehollandshop.com .
• Typical Dutch - the english language version of a ‘web grocer’ by Ron and Ank Tol, of a company called PEAR in Hoorn. W: www.typical-dutch.com E: info@typical-dutch.com source: e-mail, 20 mar 05
• Typical Dutch Stuff is - by dint of the alphabetical ordering employed - the last but perhaps not the least. They have a wide assortment of foodstuffs, but I was not able to find their street address. www.typicaldutchstuff.com

For more shops that cater to the Dutch abroad, visit the Holland Ring.