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15 cocktail bar places in Amsterdam we have eaten in, sorted by editor score. All cuisines in Amsterdam | Cocktail Bar across every city.
Amsterdam's drinking scene layers a serious modern cocktail movement over its old jenever houses. Tales and Spirits near the Singel and Door 74 off Reguliersdwarsstraat are among the bars that pushed the craft side forward, while Wynand Fockink, a tasting house off the Pijlsteeg, has poured Dutch gin and liqueurs since the seventeenth century.
Tales and Spirits ★ 4.8
Lijnbaanssteeg 5-7, 1012 TE Amsterdam
Tales and Spirits on Lijnbaanssteeg is the Amsterdam cocktail boudoir of the old guard, antique cabinets, chandeliers, drinks served in vintage glassware.
Door 74 ★ 4.7
Reguliersdwarsstraat 74I, 1017 BN Amsterdam
Door 74 on Reguliersdwarsstraat is the Amsterdam speakeasy that opened the city's cocktail wave, by reservation only, behind an unmarked door.
Hiding in Plain Sight ★ 4.7
Rapenburg 18, 1011 TX Amsterdam
Hiding in Plain Sight on Rapenburg is the Amsterdam American-style cocktail bar, big-windowed despite the speakeasy framing, sharp menu, unfussy room.
Café Hoppe ★ 4.6
Spui 18-20, 1012 XA Amsterdam
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.
Café 't Smalle ★ 4.6
Egelantiersgracht 12, 1015 RL Amsterdam
Café 't Smalle on Egelantiersgracht in the Jordaan is the Amsterdam canal-side brown cafe with the postcard terrace, the building going back.
In 't Aepjen ★ 4.2
Zeedijk 1, 1012 AN Amsterdam
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.
Café Papeneiland ★ 4.5
Prinsengracht 2, 1015 DV Amsterdam
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.
Café de Reiger ★ 4.2
Nieuwe Leliestraat 34, 1015 ST 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.
Twenty Third Bar ★ 4.5
Ferdinand Bolstraat 333, 1072 LH 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.
Wynand Fockink ★ 4.4
Pijlsteeg 31, 1012 HH Amsterdam
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.
Café Chris ★ 4.1
Bloemstraat 42, 1016 LB Amsterdam
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.
Rosalia's Menagerie ★ 4.3
Kloveniersburgwal 20, 1012 CV Amsterdam
Rosalia's Menagerie on Kloveniersburgwal is the Amsterdam cocktail bar set in a 17th-century canal house, an intimate room with animal-themed drinks.
Café Karpershoek ★ 4.1
Martelaarsgracht 2, 1012 TP Amsterdam
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.
Café 't Loosje ★ 4.0
Nieuwmarkt 32, 1012 CS Amsterdam
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.
De Drie Fleschjes ★ 4.3
Gravenstraat 18, 1012 NM Amsterdam
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.
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