Amsterdam
The canal district where Amsterdam keeps its oldest brown cafes, its sing along music bars and a handful of serious cocktail rooms, all within a few gracht blocks. Here are the Jordaan bars our editors send people to first.
Cocktail Bar · Jordaan
A 20 seat cocktail room named for the Vesper Martini, working classic technique behind a polished marble bar. Small and intentional, worth arriving early.
Whisky Bar · Jordaan
A dim Elandsgracht cocktail and whisky room with leather banquettes and around 300 bottles behind the bar, weighted toward Scottish single malt.
Brown Cafe · Jordaan
A 1786 former jenever distillery turned brown cafe, with the most photographed canal terrace in the city out over the Egelantiersgracht.
Brown Cafe · Jordaan
The oldest bar in the Jordaan, pouring since 1624. Tight, loud and fully authentic, with fast bitterballen, no cocktail list, just beer and jenever.
Brown Cafe · Jordaan
A 17th century corner cafe at the top of the Prinsengracht, all Delft tiles and worn wood, drawing a steady local crowd most afternoons.
Live Music · Jordaan
A sing along levenslied cafe on the Prinsengracht where the accordion and the regulars take over on weekend nights. Loud, warm and very Jordaan.
Pub · Jordaan
A friendly eetcafe near the Leidseplein edge of the Jordaan, with no bookings upstairs and a downstairs kitchen that fills early at weekends.
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