Door 74 ★ 4.7
Door 74 on Reguliersdwarsstraat is the Amsterdam speakeasy that opened the city's cocktail wave, by reservation only, behind an unmarked door.
DrinkPre-prohibition classics, seasonal menu
FoodNo food
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Hiding in Plain Sight ★ 4.7
Hiding in Plain Sight on Rapenburg is the Amsterdam American-style cocktail bar, big-windowed despite the speakeasy framing, sharp menu, unfussy room.
DrinkSeasonal menu, riffs on the Manhattan
FoodNo food
Café Hoppe ★ 4.6
Café Hoppe on Spui has poured Amsterdam jenever and beer since 1670, the brown cafe with the dark-wood interior and the stand-at-the-bar after-work crowd.
DrinkJenever, Dutch pilsner on tap
FoodBitterballen, cheese, bar snacks
Café 't Smalle ★ 4.6
Café 't Smalle on Egelantiersgracht in the Jordaan is the Amsterdam canal-side brown cafe with the postcard terrace, the building going back.
DrinkJenever, Belgian and Dutch ale
FoodBar snacks
In 't Aepjen ★ 4.2
In 't Aepjen on Zeedijk occupies an Amsterdam building dating to 1475, one of two surviving wooden facades, the brown cafe with the longest backstory.
DrinkJenever, classic Dutch beer
FoodBar snacks
Café Papeneiland ★ 4.5
Café Papeneiland on the corner of Prinsengracht and Brouwersgracht is the Amsterdam brown cafe from 1642, the apple pie inside almost as canonical as Winkel.
DrinkJenever, beer on tap, coffee with apple pie
FoodApple pie, bitterballen, cheese
Café de Reiger ★ 4.2
Café de Reiger on Nieuwe Leliestraat in the Jordaan is the Amsterdam eetcafe with the back-room kitchen, brown-cafe service out front, no-frills dinners.
DrinkBelgian beer, jenever, house wine
FoodDaily-changing kitchen, classics
Twenty Third Bar ★ 4.5
Twenty Third Bar at Hotel Okura sits next to Ciel Bleu on the top floor, the Amsterdam cocktail bar with the city's most generous view across the city.
DrinkJapanese-inflected cocktails with city view
FoodBar snacks, oysters
Wynand Fockink ★ 4.4
Wynand Fockink on Pijlsteeg has poured Amsterdam jenever since 1679, the proeflokaal where you bend over the tulip glass without lifting it from the bar.
DrinkJenever flights, traditional Dutch liqueurs
FoodNo food
Café Chris ★ 4.1
Café Chris on Bloemstraat in the Jordaan has poured Amsterdam beer since 1624, claimant to the city's oldest brown cafe title, the room small enough to know.
DrinkPilsner, jenever, no music
FoodBar snacks
Rosalia's Menagerie ★ 4.3
Rosalia's Menagerie on Kloveniersburgwal is the Amsterdam cocktail bar set in a 17th-century canal house, an intimate room with animal-themed drinks.
DrinkAnimal-themed seasonal cocktails
FoodBar snacks
Café Karpershoek ★ 4.1
Café Karpershoek by Centraal Station has poured since 1606, sawdust on the floor and the city's oldest licensed brown cafe, an Amsterdam tasting room.
DrinkJenever and Dutch tap beer
FoodBitterballen and bar snacks
Café 't Loosje ★ 4.0
Café 't Loosje on Nieuwmarkt is the brown cafe with the tile murals, an Amsterdam eetcafé that ran as a horse-tram waiting station before the floor went.
DrinkDutch tap beer, 12 on draught
FoodBreakfast, lunch, bar snacks
De Drie Fleschjes ★ 4.3
De Drie Fleschjes behind Nieuwe Kerk has poured jenever since 1650, the Amsterdam tasting room with 50 wooden vats and the only working drankorgel still.
DrinkJenever from 50 wooden vats, oude and jonge
FoodOssenworst and Beemster cheese, no kitchen
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Amsterdam: Cocktail Workshop with Welcome Drink
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