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Brown cafes, cocktail rooms behind unmarked doors, and the kind of bar where the barman does not ask what you want because he already knows.
11 places in Amsterdam
murmur
Noord
A listening bar so well hidden that finding it is part of it.
't Nieuwe Diep
Flevopark
A genever distillery in a little house in the middle of a park.
Vermut
Oud-West
A neighbourhood bar on the Jan Pieter Heijestraat, built around vermouth and other aperitifs, in the space where the trattoria Nonna used to
Bar Centraal
Oud-West
Natural wine and small plates, in a room that is always one person too full.
Bar Babar
Grachtengordel
Natural wine and things bought that afternoon from shops down the street.
Café 't Papeneiland
Jordaan
Four hundred years of brown café, on the corner where two canals meet.
Café Gijs
De Pijp
The oldest café in De Pijp, with more taps than seats.
Café Chris
Jordaan
The oldest bar in the Jordaan, open since 1624 and in no hurry.
Door 74
Grachtengordel
A cocktail bar behind a door with no sign on it.
bar how
Noord
A wine bar inside House of Woodstock, the workshop complex on the Papaverhoek.
Cafe Voorwaarts
Noord
A new brown cafe in the Hamerkwartier, run by the team behind Skatecafe, inside four combined buildings from 1925 that used to house a machi