Dutch American Market & Import

Fantastic selection of everything Dutch including traditional Dutch shoes in plush slipper and in plastic as gardening shoes. Community table for herring and speculos– love this place!

This place is absolutely amazing! I love all the different imported flavors and their selection! I think the cheese was my favorite part. The guy who works there was really helpful when i was selecting which cheeses i wanted.

I spent two years abroad learning Dutch and so when I saw this I couldn’t help myself! Selection is good and the owners absolutely friendly. They are originally from Holland and loved talking to me in Dutch. They have imports like candies, books, and cheeses. They have a small deli and the prices are good. All in all, I can’t wait to go back again.

Great place with wonderful kind owners. Went there while I was in town. Got my fix of dutch goodies. Bought licorice too, and it was no where near the price stated earlier.

I’ve been curious about this little shop. This morning my young daughter and I had a bit of extra time, so we stopped in to check it out. The friendly shopkeepers greeted us right away, but left us free to browse the aisles of grocery items, candies, ceramics and other souvenir-​style items. Of course, my daughter was drawn to the bulk candy display, so I let her pick a few things while I chose some different licorice types for myself (all labeled sweet, salty, or very salty). I don’t know why another reviewer complained about the cost of licorice. There is quite a selection of pre-​packaged versions, but the ones I saw seemed to range only a couple bucks or more.
I also asked about the Farmer’s cheese (imported, no antibiotics, grass-​fed and likely free-​range). She let us sample a sliver of the mild, medium and aged versions and we agreed the mild suited us best. Brought it home to have with lunch. Yum!

If you love Dutch food, and I do, this is the place for you. My family is Dutch and I can go here and get delicious ontbijtkoek (which is a spicy breakfast bread, or speculaas cookies (which are gingerbread-​y or hagelslag (which is chocolate sprinkles for your toast) or any number of other goodies.
They have an excellent counter with Dutch meats and cheeses, too. Their oude gouda (old Gouda cheese) is my favorite.
The owners are straight from the old country, so you can go and use your language skills with them, too. Very friendly, very good service.
I especially like buying my chocolate letters here for a Christmastime treat.

I can’t add much to all the other positive ratings. The store is run by ‘Oma and Opa’, a wonderful friendly couple from the Nederland’s. Get to know them and you will be delighted to return again and again. When I had lunch there we all sat on a long table having a great conversation.
As of the reviewer who complained about the price of a very large bag of licorice. Take a bag like this, put in in a box and mail it overseas. The postage will cost you over $ 20.00 guaranteed. Can’t afford a big bag? Buy a small bag. Want something special? Go to the Dutch Store. Want something cheap? Go to Winco or Target.
Not everything seems expensive to me, my lunch, a «Dutch Ruben Sandwich» and a Coke was $ 6.50.
Anyone who drives down Beaverton-​Hillsdale Highway should at least have a lock at this unique little store.

I have been going to the Dutch store since I was a little girl. My Mom was born in Holland so we would drive from Eugene just to get foods that were familiar to her. She is also part Indonesian so it helps that they carry sambal and other Indonesian items. I love the Dutch candy and cheeses! I don’t make it to the Portland/​Beaverton area often enough. I would love to go to this store more often. I love it here. It is spendy but I do understand the price of shipping over Seas. But to me it’s heaven on earth just to bring back memories of my childhood.

My goodness. What a fantastic little place. If you’ve been to the Netherlands, have Dutch descendancy, or are curious about what the Dutch eat for breakfast, lunch or dinner you’ve GOT to check this place out.
There are rows and rows of cookies, biscuits and candies that makes one wonder if they didn’t leave the Netherlands with it all in 6 giant shipping containers. But it makes sense when you come to realize this shop ships all over the Pacific Rim.
This is one place impossible to leave without your sweet tooth unsatisfied, not to mention the vast list of Dutch delicacies.
Broodje Haring anyone? Yes please!!!

As a Dutch girl, I love this place and we are so fortunate that it is just a couple of miles away from us!
Stroopwaffels
Droppies
Komeinekaas
Sinterklaas party
Need I say more?

The Dutch American Market is a haven of nostalgia and deliciousness for the local Dutch community. The couple who runs the store is incredibly sweet and from the second time I came in they’ve remembered me and known my name. They are so warm and welcoming, the store feels a little like a home away from home. (The great customer service and friendliness is probably the only thing that’s Americanized about them though haha, there’s no way you’d find store owners this friendly in The Netherlands, where you’d be lucky to have a store employee get off their cell phone to help you.)
Ever since the Dutch American market moved to their new location on the Highway they’ve increased their selection. Cheese, smeerkaas, spices, cookies, licorice, beschuit, Sinterklaas and Easter goodies (chocoladeletters, pepernoten, etc) baking and cooking supplies, Dutch-​Indonesian products like kroepoek (!), but also CDs, souvenirs, and best of all: SJOELBAKKEN. If you’re Dutch, you undoubtedly spent a good time of your childhood sjoeling with fellow cousins at your grandparents house, or with other kids at school parties or on Koninginnedag. We’ve gotten one for ourselves and for a friend who has kids, and everybody loves the game!
The store is also much more visible now, it’s on your left side as you’re heading east, by a little computer store and just past the Swedish store on your right. Can’t miss it!
The only thing I wish was better would be a longer remaining expiration date on some things, but that seems to be the same no matter where I go to ‘Import Markets’. They have to order things from far away, and of course sell items fairly slowly, so that raises the price a little and makes for a slow turn-​over. That’s never stopped me from leaving the store with several huge bags of Dutch goodies though! (They probably know me as the ‘smeerkaas-​girl’ or something, I seem to clean our their whole supply of smeerkaas every time I’m there haha.
In short: If you’re Dutch, or you’ve been to The Netherlands, or you simply love tasting new foods: Go to the Dutch American Market, they’re fabulous! Don’t buy any smeerkaas though, I’m sure you won’t like it *cough* Just leave all that smeerkaas for me to deal with on my next visit.

What a great little find. The woman who runs the deli (owner I’m sure) in this «everything Dutch» market/​shop was absolutely charming and sweet. Some co-​workers and I went to dine-​in. Sandwiches were on the small side but priced at $ 3.50-$ 5.00. The charm is the hook. She offered us free Dutch coffee to start and when we were done with our meals she brought out a tray of cookies (also free). Don’t know if that’s the standard or if we were just such great customers. She wouldn’t accept tips so we contributed to her granddaughter’s horse camp fund. Perfect!
Also a must stop for a fantastic assortment of black licorice and for all of your wooden shoe shopping needs.

There are a lot of pacific northwest hollanders. I run into them all the time. But when I really need a fix of some good «pitjes kaas» or stroopwafels to have with tea, I come here. They also have a little deli for a quick lunch. The selection is somewhat limited but definitely within expectation and I am thrilled that they carry seasonal (Sinterklaas) related items like chocolate letters.
I used to use a Dutch Mail Order service but a local store is far better.

Well, what can I say, I heard about this place and since I am a big licorice fan I just had to check it out. As soon as I walked in the door I found a hughe selection of licorice and I got exited ! But the excitement quickly settled down to a big disappointment, prices, they charge an arm and a leg for their stuff in here!!! Ok, I know it is imported and they have to pay rent and so on, but come on! For example, a bag of licorice for 28 bucks! It was a big bag, but the same bag doesent cost more than maybe 4 bucks in Holland! I left without any licorice, I would not recommend this place to anyone.

This little Dutch Import store, which is as much a Grocery and Gift Shop as it is a Deli, sits right near A Cut Above Pawn and Computer Renaissance near the intersection of 99^th and Beaverton Hillsdale Highway. They can be spotted by the «Dutch Store» sign and a small windmill displayed prominently in their window when they are open.
They have THE BEST selection of Dutch cheeses in the Portland area (as far as i know) including Gouda, Edam, Leyden, and many herbed and aged varieties of these. They also seem to have a fair variety of sandwich meats available in the deli case, as well as raw pickled herring (rauwe haring), an interesting snack if you are feeling adventurous or brave. They serve sandwiches but their selection is basically limited to 3 or 4 styles of sandwich, meat, meat and cheese, cheese, or a «broodje gezond» (which translates to «healthy sandwich» and is generally just cheese and cucumber or cheese and lettuce and maybe some tomato). The sandwiches are all made on simple, white Dutch hoagie rolls, and while somewhat plain it is a Dutch staple, and as i recall not too expensive. They also give you free coffee or tea with your sandwich. Actually sometimes they offer free coffee or tea just for the heck of it when you are browsing the grocery aisles.
I definitely wouldn’t come out of the way just for the sandwiches, what is really awesome about this place is all the grocery items you can’t find anywhere else!
Here’s a list of some of the products they have that i really love:
*Stroop waffles (two very thin waffle cookies sandwiching a layer of caramel, good cold and especially good heated up in the microwave for a few seconds)
*Drop and zoute drop (licorice and salted licorice, i think they even have quadruple salted licorice which is an interesting, peculiar acquired taste, to be sure)
*Speculaas (AMAZING Dutch crunchy spice cookies, similar in spicing to our gingerbread, yet pepperier)
*Many different varieties of dried soup packages, pancake mixes, and spices specific to Dutch cooking
*Absolutely every flavor of mento you could dream of… they are Dutch, after all…
*Excellent Dutch chocolates and chocolate bars, candies, and KINDER EGGS (milk chocolate hollow eggs with a plastic toy inside)!!!
*Rusks (the shape of an english muffin, it is crunchy and pre-​toasted like a melba toast, but a bit sweeter, excellent eaten with jam or Nutella)
*NUTELLA as well as a couple of knock off varieties, for example Duo Penotti
*A pretty good selection of INDONESIAN foods and spices (after all, Indonesian food is to the Dutch what Mexican food is to us, or what Indian food is to the English… we conquerors love the cuisines of those we have occupied at one point in history or other.)
*A shelf full of FREE USED magazines and books for those who want to catch up or polish up on Dutch reading!
They have gifts, music CDs and books as well, and while most of their selection is a bit «touristy» and overpriced in my opinion there are also some good things here and there peppered throughout their selection.
The couple who runs the place are very friendly, and this is a great place to go if you wish to «spreek Nederlands» (speak Dutch) with somebody.
Basically my only complaints are that things can be a bit pricey here and their hours are fairly short. With a family run import store though none of this is out of the ordinary. They are really nice people with a cute little store, I want to help keep them in business.