Boulangerie Oscar in Wijk 03 IJmuiden-West

Grabbed some sandwiches and pastry for going on the ferry to Newcastle. My only mistake was not buying more. Everything I had was fantastic. The highlight was the classic ham, flavour sensation I loved it. Staff were also very happy and friendly excellent service.

Really good bakery! Close to the ferry terminal to Newcastle.

Very nice little place for a delicious fresh cup of coffee or tea. A huge selection of sandwiches and pastries. We had trouble choosing and will definitely come back here again.

In terms of looks, this is exactly what you expect from a sourdough cafe. Atmospherically decorated and a beautiful counter full of good-looking croissants and other types of pastries. Unfortunately, that was also the only positive thing. Although the menu clearly states that they are happy to assist with allergies, no answer could be given to the question of whether it contained cow's milk. Since I was hungry anyway, I ordered a sandwich without sauce. After waiting 20 minutes—because we had apparently been forgotten—we received our sandwiches. Unfortunately, the bread was old and tough, and the filling was meager. For €7, you expect more, especially at a bakery. I also took home a loaf of regular bread. I cannot tell you how that tastes, because fortunately I found out in time that it also contains cow's milk. I bought this bread after mentioning my allergy. Tip: just ensure you have a good allergen menu. It prevents a lot of stress for both staff and customers. Additionally, a smile from the staff goes a long way. In short: as far as I am concerned, definitely not recommended. If I want to eat stale bread with a little chicken, I can also go to the supermarket.

Great bakery just along from check in for the DFDS ferry to England. Perfect for a snack before you board

The sandwiches were tasty. The woman behind the counter was downright grumpy and unpleasant. Anyway, she was quickly forgotten while sitting on a bench in the sunshine, and we had a lovely breakfast.

I don't like leaving negative reviews, but I visited this location around lunchtime for the second time now. In other words, Oscar's bakery, where all the bread was sold out. I haven't experienced this often at other Oscars. It's a shame, because I go to a bakery specifically to buy bread. I prefer going to Oscar in Bloemendaal, where they are very friendly!

Very good range of bakery products and excellent service 😋😀

Mediocre large cappuccino for €4.50, way too much milk or not enough coffee, not a very friendly lady making it....could be better!

Everything was made fresh on-site! The apple turnovers and fresh croissants were delicious, and the coffee was also very, very good. Prices were absolutely reasonable!

A very pretty bakery with a café. Friendly staff and delicious pastries. A must-do for us before catching the Amsterdam-Newcastle ferry. We'll definitely be back.

The bread was very disappointing, super tough even though we consumed it immediately after purchase. Furthermore, the staff behind the counter couldn't manage a smile and spoke so softly. Not pleasant for retail staff.

The matcha was tasteless and very strong. The brownie and pistachio cookies were overpriced. The staff does not speak Dutch. No restroom access available.

Top bread and other goodies with super attentive service

As much as I love the Netherlands and its people, its culinary scene is a whole other story. Sadly, a sad one. This also applies to bread, which is usually spongy and tasteless. Fortunately, there are still people who enthusiastically bake good bread and rolls using traditional methods. Like at OSCAR. Admittedly, their baked goods are a bit more expensive, but honest, handcrafted food should be worth it. I think the shop's layout is fantastic; you can watch the bread being made. The only slight drawback is the open display of the finished baked goods. For hygiene reasons, they should really be kept behind glass. Nevertheless, it's a great concept. Best of luck, Team Oscar! Addendum: I'm still a customer at Oscar's in IJmuiden. Unfortunately, since the opening of the new shop, some things have gotten worse. First, there's the hygiene issue: baked goods are still displayed openly for everyone to touch, presented on the counter, practically at "spitting height" for the customers standing in front of them. Some people have a wet way of speaking, and when the baked goods are just 20 cm from their mouth, it's not very appetizing. Secondly, the friendliness of your staff has also declined significantly over time. This morning (May 10, 2026) was particularly noticeable: the shop was empty, I entered as usual with a friendly "Good morning," but received no greeting in return. Four saleswomen were preoccupied with themselves: one was doing something at the cash register, one was sweeping (it was 9:00 a.m.), and two were chatting amongst themselves. Even after I cleared my throat, I was ignored. Only when a second customer entered the shop did the staff "wake up," and one saleswoman turned to the customer who had arrived after me. Your staff used to be friendly and funny; there was always laughter and a cheerful atmosphere in the room. It's a shame that's no longer the case.

Nice little shop and location and everything, but the baguette really wasn't good, tough and too salty! Croissant wasn't anything special either. Quite pricey for a boulangerie with French standards, but not quality.

Generally a good bakery (by Dutch standards), with tasty baguettes. Unfortunately, the quality can vary. One time a baguette that is overcooked and burnt, then a baguette that really should have baked a bit longer, and now chocolate rolls that are soft instead of crispy.... A shame! We have been coming here for about 5 years. Unfortunately, in recent months the focus seems to have shifted from good products to "looking good." I don't even mind that people speak English, but I do mind the lack of customer friendliness. All this combined, with the relatively high prices, makes me doubt whether I will still buy bread here. Baguettes *can* be okay, but Le Fournil in Amsterdam is definitely better, more customer-friendly, and cheaper.

Unfriendly reception, a lot of noise during our visit due to moving existing furniture (for a party). A tip: move the furniture around later or inform the guests.

After a disappointing breakfast at the bakery next door, we went to this wonderful boulangerie. The croissant was one of the best I've ever had. The peanut butter cookie was divine. The bread was delicious. They were well-prepared for English-speaking tourists and very friendly. Card payments are accepted. The shop is busy, which isn't surprising given the excellent quality of the baked goods. The bakery is open to the public, meaning you can watch the baking process. A fantastic concept, fantastic baked goods, fantastic service: Keep it up!

Good bakery with lovely products. Unfortunately, the customer service is not of the same standard.

I dare call myself a customer from the very beginning, and have seen the bakery evolve from a cozy artisanal boulangerie into what you would nowadays call a near-bread factory. Unfortunately, you start to see that reflected in the quality as well. The baguette in particular—which until recently you could buy blindfolded, with a crispy crust, French T65 flour, and a nice airy texture—is now more often tough, soft, and compact, and this weekend it was even just plain white bread flour. If you make a comment about this in the shop, they don't understand you because the staff is English-speaking... why?

Delicious fresh rolls from our own bakery and good coffee.

Still by far my favorite bakery in IJmuiden. Delicious bread, tasty cakes, and specials. Well worth a visit.

One of the best bakeries I ever visited!

Oscar on the Groote Markt is already a treat, but here in IJmuiden it is just as nice! The bakery is here, and you can see the bakers at work in the traditional way.

The bread is delicious. The croissants too. But the fact that the staff speaks little to no Dutch is getting annoying. This is IJmuiden, not Amsterdam.

Delicious bread, coffee, and very friendly service. 🍞🥖

It's always a pleasure to go to Harlem and stop by Oscar's. The coffee was a bit too strong for my taste, but the pastries were excellent.

Lovely bakery where we had 3 delicious breakfast walking distance from our hotel. Interesting counter sitting with view into the pastry making area.

The quality of the bread has been fantastic for years, but why doesn't the staff speak a word of Dutch anymore?

Best bakery in the area! Delicious fresh rolls and freshly filled baguettes. (It's a shame they run out of baguettes at noon on Saturdays, though.)

Excellent bakery, fantastic and attentive team.

Jesus! Those pastries are so delicious! I totally recommend the spinach-feta one and the rolls, too! Get one of those fluffy buns! And don’t even get me started on this coffee… it’s amazing!

Stopped in on route for the ferry. Such a good bakery. Products and coffee where brilliant. Definitely a good stop. The new member of staff was doing an excellent job. Hope she enjoys her time there!

We often visit Oscar in building Biarritz on the Halkade next to the harbour of IJmuiden Aan Zee. Great products and service.

Very tasty and special! Everything's handmade. It's just not very comfortable to sit in, and it's a bit cold.

Always my first stop off the boat. Perfect food, amazing coffee, lovely staff. Could not recommend this place any more!

I was there by chance quite some time back,middle ofJuly this year ...I was wondering around before a work meeting in the area..so I pop in as the smell from outside was so intense and goo and as soon I enter I got stuck by looking at the various several trays of the BEAUTIFUL freshly baked focaccia with rosemary and olives which were stacked/piled in various carts there waiting to be sent to the other shops that they have.....and while I was looking so fascinated by the quality of the dough and the inviting great perfume emanating from there ( I do like baking and I do my sourdough breads and focaccias sometime with good results too so I knew I was looking to a nice product!! ), a young and smiley woman ,guess in her 30s, asked gently, 'You liked it?'' ...and I said '' Well, it looks amazingly good actually, hope I can taste it in fact !''...'' Sure , it is meant to be on the shops in few hours but I can make an exeption for you!''..and while cutting a nice piece of it, she explains in details and with passion the baking tecnique used for this Focaccia, which is called BIGA....BIGA is a long and work intensive baking and raising dough process which, when done correctly ( difficoult !) it produce an incredibly soft ,full of micro and big air bubble and still moist sourdough type of pizza or focaccia bread . But what I had there was without doubt the BEST BIGA FOCACCIA I have never had...and trust me I have had quite a lot in Italy and in the south of Italy all my life. The young smiley woman there ,who has been super nice,kind and passionate about her work , was the Maitre baker Chef of the Boulangerie Oscar .I want say Congratulation to her and the really exceptional work and results she is doing there !!Can't wait to be there again soon...Unfortunately I cant remember her name .Hopefully she will be around !

Coffee very good but expensive and in glasses

Insanely delicious coconut macaroons🫶🤩🤩🤩 great bakery👍👍will stop by again on the way back from Newcastle 🤤

We stumbled upon Boulangerie Oscar today by chance via Google, and what can I say? Simply fantastic! 🥐✨ The staff were incredibly friendly and welcoming. They baked fresh on-site, which made the atmosphere even more special. Everything we took home was absolutely perfect, both in terms of taste and quality. 🫶🏻 Definitely a clear recommendation! 🌟

Great coffee and delicious homemade apple pie straight from the oven! Highly recommended.

Far too expensive for French people who know good bread!

For bread and other tasty treats, you're in the right place! They've got a steak on the side if you haven't stopped by yet! ;) Great service!

Great bakery with pure bread, just the way it's meant to be. From Beverwijk, I go to Bakker Oscar. They also have coffee beans, and the packaging doesn't specify which beans they are, so I asked. The man didn't know. I said I'd go ask a colleague myself. The man walked away, leaving me a bit puzzled. I find this a real shame for 750 grams of coffee costing almost €20.00. Not that it's super expensive, but I would really try to help my customer as best I could. Even if it was €1.00.

Friendliness and a pleasant experience witnessing the making of the cakes! The brownie, focaccia, and pastel de nata were wonderful!

Cool and authentic location with yummy Cookies & Brownies and the best Kokosmakroons ever!!!

The real baker! Very cool atmosphere because you can almost experience the baking process up close because of how it is set up on the inside, super interesting! The various sandwiches they sell here are also super tasty! Of course you pay a little more for this, but that can be explained 😊

Very nice and above all delicious, highly recommended. The bread is being baked next door, so nice to see.

We wanted to go to the beach in IJmuiden and get breakfast beforehand. We came across this little bakery by chance. We were very surprised and impressed that production takes place directly in the sales area. That was really good! The service was friendly, the baked goods were really well priced and tasted great!

Delicious pastry and bread, worth a stop. Reasonably priced for the quality. Recommended.

Highly recommended. We stayed in a hotel near the Boulangerie and the truth is that we had a great breakfast. It only has a couple of benches outside the establishment, but it was sunny and great. We ordered a couple of cappuccinos, a couple of croissants, a brownie, a pastel de nata and an American cookie and we paid €17, so it was great because the products are made there and this breakfast would have been much more expensive in a normal restaurant.

Beautiful bakery, very friendly staff and delicious pastry

Brownie was super tasty and fudgy ;)

Good bakery, expensive but artisanal really! It is a bakery without a terrace so the questions below are nonsense? There is a coffee shop next to it .. the whole row of shops at the harbor, are something like the canal belt ...

Delicious cookies; chocolate chip, brownies, coconut macaroon. French bread!

Really tasty cruasan,good service.

Real fresh bakery with deliciously crispy freshly baked sourdough sticks/breads and other specialties.

Good quality! Delicious ham and cheese croissants. They are expensive, but they are the tastiest I have had so far in IJmuiden, so that is okay. The open bakery creates a very traditional setting. Unfortunately, the atmosphere is destroyed by the seller. First he pretends you don't exist for half a minute while he continues talking to a colleague. Then instead of a smile you get a grumpy look. I came back again because of the quality. Unfortunately, the same grumpiness was there again and it made for an unpleasant interaction again. That was the last time for me.

I bought a ham cheese croissant and a pistachio croissant but there was a lot of ham in the croissant and you can't taste any pistachio in the pistachio croissant

Bought 3 baguettes instead of 9 today because to my great surprise the baguette cost 30 cts in a few days without any mention from the media that the bread cost. So now a baguette at (Oscar) IJmuiden costs €2.50, I advise customers to go to le Fournil (real French baker Sebastien) where the same baguette costs €1.95, count from your profit!!! Oscar has definitely lost a customer.

Delicious baked good including sour doughs. There is no seating area inside but it’s for sure worth a stop. There a couple of benches outside under the roof. There are also coffee, juices and other drinks available. You could see people shaping bread which is interesting to watch. The lady working at the counter was very friendly.

Ik kom in het filiaal Heemstede. Het valt mij op dat de kwaliteit minder wordt. Heel specifiek; de stokbroodjes zijn niet voldoende vers/knapperig, en moeten dus worden “opgepiept” in de oven. Jammer, want toen het bedrijf net begon (vóór de overname) was ik nooit teleurgesteld …

Delicious raisin bread made from sourdough

Great bakkery. Large variety and excellent quality

Betreft de winkel in Heemstede. Croissants, chocolade broodjes en brownies besteld. De croissants waren niet goed en smaakten als gewoon wit brood in een "croissant" vermomming.

Unbelievably good breads and pastries. Cookies are out of this world. Friendly staff. Highly recommended. Don’t miss this one!

Heerlijk brood, maar altijd gecremeerd (ook de medewerkster in de winkel beaamde dat het brood veel te donker/verbrand is) en daarmee kankerverwekkend!/ niet conform Europese richtlijnen Ondanks onze herhaalde klachten/suggesties verandert niets aan het bakproces. Korter bakken en/of op lagere temp en je hebt het beste brood ter wereld. Heel, echt heel erg jammer. We gaan op zoek naar een bakker die de gezondheid van zijn klanten wel serieus neemt.

Very good baker. Worth a detour.

Great fresh baked goods, watch the production, it smells delicious, definitely worth a detour on the way to DFDS

Nice bakery, it all looks very nice. However, the products are somewhat disappointing in terms of taste. A sausage roll, for example, has a very bland taste but looks fantastic! I was really a little disappointed.

Truly delicious bread and cookies, well let me say: Cookies! Nice wide choice

Vriendelijk personeel. Heerlijk brood zonder toevoegingen.ruime keuze lactosevrij.

The nut and raisin bread was superb, I enjoyed it very much

Vers, goede kwaliteit en met liefde gemaakt

Wat een geweldig heerlijk brood, geweldige croissants en koeken! Echt genieten.

Das Oskar in Haarlem kannte ich schon, deshalb bin ich hier gezielt hingefahren. Und wieder einmal wurde ich sehr angenehm überrascht. Ein direkter Blick in die Backstuben - was für eine tolle Atmosphäre. Schnell ein leckeres Croissant auf die Hand und für das Abendessen zwei Baguette. Sehr empfehlenswert! Ein gut durchdachtes Rezept!

Gebäck direkt aus der Backstube

Die Apfeltaschen sind perfekt!!

Superbakker met heerlijle verse broodjes en meet

Super leckere Croissants 🥐 direkt aus der Backstube

Hmmmmm.... Everything was delicious. Nothing more to say.

Wij komen altijd naar IJmuiden voor al het lekkers wat ze verkopen. Alles is heerlijk en vers. Vandaag heerlijke oliebollen gehaald, vers gebakken, niet vet! Kortom een aanrader!

Die besten Brötchen und leckere Schokocroissants der Region

Tolle Bäckerei! Nur zu empfehlen - sehr freundlicher Service, gute Bachwaren, traditionell.

Sehr gute Backwaren! Die Teilchen waren köstlich, vor allem die Apfeltaschen. Authentisch, freundlich, lecker - Nur zu empfehlen!

Stopping there once a year, when we take the ferry to England. Has never disappointed. French croissants and pain d'amande are better then many in France. You can buy juices, packed biscuits and such as well.

Super Bäckerei im französischen Stil, man kauft quasi in der Backstube. Sehr großes Angebot, super lecker, oft besser als in Frankreich. Apfelkuchen war göttlich.

Heerlijk brood. Vriendelijk personeel. Bij-de-weg, het is tevens een leer-bedrijf; gaaaaf.

Une vraie Boulangerie à la Française où on peut y trouver croissants, pains au chocolat, baguettes fraiches, divers jus.... Un régal !

Sehr cooles Gebäude. Sehr gute Backwaren - handgemacht vor Ort - exzellent! Dazu echten Fruchsaft und guter Café. Bestes Frühstück auf dieser Reise hier. Schöne Grüße aus Leipzig in Deutschland 😉

Heerlijke verse bakker met de lekkerste ham kaas croissants in de regio. Met de juiste timing warm uit de oven

Oscar knows what they’re doing. Fantastic croissants, pastry, and bread. Benches out front to eat all the goods, but we were surrounded by begging birds.

Het schijnt een heel goede bakker te zijn. Ik ben ernaast geweest bij Harbour cafe

Pain au chocolat at its best! Just like in France 👌🏻

Sehr schöne Auswahl und wirklich super lecker. Etwas teurer, aber es lohnt sich. Eine wirkliche Manufaktur.

Sehr schöne Auswahl an leckeren Backwaren. Das Brot war sehr lecker und qualitativ hochwertig verarbeitet. Die Kuchen/Gebäcke waren sehr lecker. Wir komen auf jeden Fall wieder 👍

Sehr beeindruckend, ganz ausgezeichnet. Produkte sind hervorragend.

Geen luxe winkel maar perfect, ambachtelijk gebakken brood. Een must voor de liefhebber van echte Franse stokbroden.

Top bakker, niet alleen van ijmuiden maar heel noord holland