Bar

Amsterdam’s bar landscape is unusually layered for a city this size — the medieval brown cafés, the modern cocktail dens, the proeflokalen (tasting houses) attached to distilleries, the rooftop spots, the gay bars on Reguliersdwarsstraat, and the late-night neighbourhood spots that handle the in-between hours all coexist within walking distance. This archive collects them all: Café Chris (1624) on Bloemstraat, Café ‘t Smalle (1780) on Egelantiersgracht, the speakeasy Door 74 on Reguliersdwarsstraat, the genever specialists Café Brecht and Wynand Fockink, modern cocktail-led spots like Tales & Spirits and Bar Basquiat, and beer destinations In De Wildeman and Proeflokaal Arendsnest. Each listing covers atmosphere, what to order, and how the room shifts across the evening.