Stratumseind is the longest café street in the country and it does not need an introduction to anyone who has spent a Saturday in Eindhoven. What it does need is a plan for the hours before eleven.
The hour before
Kerkstraat runs parallel, three minutes away, and is a different kind of evening: you sit down, you eat, you have a margarita made properly rather than poured out of a jug. Then you go round the corner.
Worth knowing
Fridays and Saturdays are busy from seven onwards. Walk-ins are welcome and often fine, but a table booked is a table kept.