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Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Smoker Friendly Bars in Amsterdam

As you may have heard, the government wanted to seperate weed and alcohol (most people know that mixing the two is a mistake, but I never heard of it being a big problem), so many places have had to give up one or the other. Unfortuantely, because those coffeeshops that used to serve alcohol used to be allowed to open late and no longer can if they give up the booze, it means less places to smoke out late. Or does it....

Luckily, there are some bars that are smoker friendly (take that government!) and I hope to compile a running list, edited as we go along. What I have compiled so far is based on my own knowledge and a couple of other sources.

I welcome your comments so we can keep this up to date as a list of smoker friendly bars!

  • Cocos (in the back of the restaurant section at least - I need to get clarification of this), Rembrandtplein
  • Hunters Vodka Bar (twinned with Hunters Coffeeshop over the road-score your gear there)
  • Stones Cafe, Warmoestraat
  • Sports Bar, Leidseplein (needs verifying, is there more than one in Leidseplein?)
  • Sky Sports Cafe, Leidseplein
  • Rock and Roll Bar
  • Excalibur
  • Red Light Bar
  • Getto, Warmoestraat
  • Tara Irish Pub (downstairs) - apparently they don't let you smoke, at least openly, removing from the list.
  • Ziggy's
  • Cafe of the Minds, Spuistraat
  • Lost in Amsterdam, Nieuwendijk
If you know of any other bars where you have smoked, please leave a comment and I will add to the main list. Thanks!

Edited 15 Apr 07

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12 Comments:

  • The Tara Irish Bar has not been smoker friendly for over a year. And there is no upstairs except for the toilets.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Thursday, April 12, 2007 9:27:00 AM  

  • Where is the Rock and Roll Bar? Their is no other Sports Bar in Leidseplein except for Sky Sports Cafe that I know of. You should do better research before you start a list like this.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Friday, April 13, 2007 9:51:00 AM  

  • Cafe of the Minds on Spuistraat is one I have smoked at.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Friday, April 13, 2007 1:54:00 PM  

  • Lost in Amsterdam was always a smoker friendly bar, its down nieuwendijk i think (not to hot with road names)!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Friday, April 13, 2007 4:49:00 PM  

  • anon1-thanks I will update
    anon2-please mate, I did this research off my own back and its a work in progress.
    anon3+4-thanks again

    By Blogger theguest, at Sunday, April 15, 2007 6:49:00 PM  

  • what is NES like now??

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Sunday, April 29, 2007 5:18:00 AM  

  • You can smoke in The Newcastle pub in the rld.

    By Blogger jinks420, at Sunday, May 06, 2007 2:07:00 PM  

  • The other sports bar that was in the Leidseplein was turned into The Waterhole about 3 years ago. I don't think there is another sports bar in the Leidseplein area that allows you to smoke.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Monday, May 07, 2007 8:38:00 AM  

  • Smoking Bull, on Lange Niezel, just off Warmoesstraat, used to be a coffeshop, but gave up their weed licence recently, and went with the alcohol.
    They do allow you to smoke.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Wednesday, May 16, 2007 1:54:00 PM  

  • The following have been collated from channels, ACD etc.
    None have been confirmed personally, I need to wait another 3 days to start checking any :)

    Lost in Amsterdam
    Nes Café
    Ricks Cafe
    cafe menschen
    Smoking Bull - (sells cans of lager)
    Barney's Brasserie

    Rock Planet
    Black Tiger
    Stones Café
    Wonder Bar
    The Flying Dutchman?
    Winston (club/Bar?)
    Coco's Outback
    Susies Saloon
    red light bar
    smokeys bar
    cafe de duivel
    green house effect bar

    Nomads - after dinner service has finished
    Coco's Outback Steakhouse - Specific smoking section
    Satellite Sports Cafe - Leidseplein - certain areas ok
    Blue Tea House (Het Blauwe Theehuis) - open til 1am w/end
    Excalibur Cafe
    Cafe Soundgarden

    Korsakoff (Club)
    Paradiso (club)
    Melkweg (club/bar/cafe/gallery/etc.)
    Maloe Melo - (live Blues)
    OCCII (Club)

    Obviously not all of these are bars, but hopefully still of some use to you?

    By Anonymous Chris Merriman, at Tuesday, September 18, 2007 10:17:00 AM  

  • Hey thanks Chris, that's great.

    I've decided to make a map of all these places that I have heard of - they're in a new post here:

    http://nederwiet.blogspot.com/2007/09/map-of-amsterdam-smoker-friendly-bars.html

    By Blogger theguest, at Friday, September 28, 2007 8:23:00 PM  

  • another bar - the Late Night Bar next to the 420 coffeeshop - happily lets you smoke and drink

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Thursday, October 11, 2007 12:10:00 PM  

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