Café de Reiger is a bar in Amsterdam.
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.
Editorially verified May 20, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Food program: Daily-changing kitchen, classics
Address: Nieuwe Leliestraat 34, 1015 ST Amsterdam
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.
Signature drink: Japanese-inflected cocktails with city view
Food: Bar snacks, oysters
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.
Signature drink: Jenever flights, traditional Dutch liqueurs
Food: No food
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.
Signature drink: Pilsner, jenever, no music
Food: Bar snacks
Rosalia's Menagerie on Kloveniersburgwal is the Amsterdam cocktail bar set in a 17th-century canal house, an intimate room with animal-themed drinks.
Signature drink: Animal-themed seasonal cocktails
Food: Bar snacks
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.
Signature drink: Jenever and Dutch tap beer
Food: Bitterballen and bar snacks
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.
Signature drink: Dutch tap beer, 12 on draught
Food: Breakfast, lunch, bar snacks
