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XtraCold, a unique experience on Amsterdam’s bar scene
XtraCold
5 attracts the A-list set who flock
to its leather banquettes to savour
MAP P6 • Amstel 194–6
• 020 320 5700 • www.xtracold.com tasty cocktails, gourmet nibbles
For polar conditions beyond an and a jazz pianist.
Amsterdam winter, XtraCold offers
Café De Koe
a 4D experience (3D film with live 9
effects, like the wind whipping MAP K6 • Marnixstraat 381
through your hair) at –10 degrees • 020 625 4482 • www.cafedekoe.nl
Celsius. The bar requires pre- Downstairs, people are tucking
booking online, and around €20 into good, basic food; upstairs,
buys you 45 minutes in the all-ice they’re shoulder to shoulder around
environment, with thermals, gloves, the bar. Order a beer and you’re
3D glasses, and one drink. Recover instantly part of a no-nonsense
afterwards in the warm lounge bar neighbour hood bar atmosphere,
with some tapas and cocktails. with just a touch of merry mayhem,
and everyone aiming headlong at
Barney’s Uptown
6 a good night out.
MAP D2 • Haarlemmerstraat
105 • 020 427 9469 • www.barneys.
biz
Classy Barney’s Uptown, part of the
Barney’s coffeeshop chain, boasts a
good range of beers and spectacular
cocktails. The smoker-friendly bar
has half-price wine, and cocktails
are available on Ladies’ Night on
Thursdays after 7pm.
Getto
7
Getto is a welcome relief to
the screaming neon of the Red Light
District. The owners claim it is an
“attitude free zone”, resulting in a Wijnand Fockink
very mixed clientele. Liberating and
Wijnand Fockink
friendly, with a simple, home-style 0
menu served every evening (see p90). Proeflokalen, the “tasting
houses” of local distilleries, were
Freddy’s Bar
8 once places to knock back a quick
jenever (Dutch gin). Crooked and
MAP N5 • De L’Europe, Nieuwe
Doelenstraat 2–14 • 020 531 1707 cosy, with wooden barrels lining the
A favourite haunt of the late Alfred walls, this one dates back nearly
“Freddy” Heineken, Freddy’s Bar 400 years (see p84).

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