There are dozens of restaurants offering tourist menus - a three-course meal - for £6 to £10.

Did they ask for the tourist menu?

Laekjarbrekka also offers a daily tourist menu (two courses and coffee) for $23, or $11.50 for children under 12; children under 5 eat free.

Mixed paellas, she explained, are only on tourist menus.

The tourist menu is basic and comes to $32 for two (not including beverages); a fish-based a la carte meal for two averages around $73.

A three-course tourist menu with couscous is $14 a person.

The tourist menu is $15 a person for three courses and wine.

The tourist menu, for $13.60, recently comprised vegetable lasagna and roast rabbit with potatoes and vegetables.

Avoid places offering tourist menus around Leidseplein or Rembrandtplein.

There's a good beach and the town side of the street is lined with cafés and tavernas offering tourist menus.