Café Chris

It is usually counted as the oldest café in the Jordaan, said to have opened as a beer house in 1624. The story goes that builders on the Westertoren collected their pay here, though one guide points out there is no evidence for it. A billiard table fills the middle of the room, and the house ritual is the kopstootje: a jenever slurped hands-free at the bar with a beer beside it. The room is so short of space that the toilet cistern sits outside the toilet.

Street

Bloemstraat 42

Category: Food & Drink

Tags: jordaan, billiards, jenever

Coordinates: 52.3542908, 4.9014532

Part of Amsterdam's brown cafés

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