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The 10 best brown cafés in Amsterdam
The ten best brown cafés in Amsterdam — the cosy, wood-panelled pubs the city is famous for. We pick on age, atmosphere and a proper local crowd rather than tourist traffic, so you get the genuine article: a beer, a small table and no music too loud to talk over.
Candlelit perfection on a Jordaan canal — claim the waterside deck early.
Pouring since 1670; the standing room on the left is the real experience.
1642 tiles, canal corner views and the apple pie that made it world-famous.
The Jordaan's oldest café (1624) — Rembrandt's builders drank here first.
One of two wooden houses left in the city, and you can drink jenever inside it.
The crooked lock-keeper's house opposite Rembrandt's — the leaning terrace is the charm.
The city's smallest café, run by the same family since 1798.
A 1679 tasting house — bow to sip your brimming jenever, as tradition demands.
Accordion singalongs and Jordaan tearjerkers — Amsterdam at its most unguarded.
Claims to be the oldest of them all (1606), steps from Central Station.
