4 editor picks in Amsterdam.
4 speakeasies in Amsterdam our editors have drunk at, sorted by score. All Amsterdam nightlife.
Door 74 opened in November 2008 as Western Europe's first speakeasy bar in a former garage workshop off Reguliersdwarsstraat, with an unmarked black double door, classic pre-Prohibition list and a candlelit, low-seated room.
TipReservation by SMS to the bar's number, then ring the bell at the unmarked door beside the Shiva Indian restaurant. Two seatings nightly from 19:00.
HPS, short for Hiding in Plain Sight, runs a cocktail room on Rapenburg near Nieuwmarkt with a tightly written menu that swings between pre-Prohibition classics, tiki and bartender originals, served by an internationally trained team.
TipReservations recommended on weekends; the room seats roughly 35 and fills early. Nieuwmarkt metro five minutes away.
Pulitzer's Bar sits inside the canal-fronted Pulitzer Amsterdam hotel on the corner of Keizersgracht and Reestraat, running a botanical-led cocktail menu in a classic dark-wood, leather-banquette setting with a small canal terrace.
TipEntrance through the hotel lobby on Prinsengracht 323, the bar itself opens onto Keizersgracht. Canal-side outside seats are first-come on warm nights.
LAB111 occupies a former pathological anatomy lab in Oud-West and runs as an independent cult cinema with the Bar Strangelove cocktail room and a small restaurant attached, drawing cinephiles and after-work drinkers alike.
TipTram 7 to Ten Katestraat then five minutes south; bar opens before the first screening and stays open after the last reel. Cash card preferred.
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