Filter coffee bars in Amsterdam
Where Amsterdam takes pour-over and batch brew seriously. Single origins, careful extraction, beans that change with the season.
24 cafés · Netherlands
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Bocca Coffee
Founded in 2001, Bocca is widely regarded as the Netherlands' first fully vertically integrated specialty coffee…
DAK Coffee Roasters Showroom
The DAK Showroom on Bellamyplein is the on-floor expression of one of Amsterdam's most talked-about roasteries,…
Lot Sixty One Coffee Roasters
The café credited with igniting Amsterdam's third-wave movement, Lot Sixty One occupies a corner in Oud West where an…
Sango Specialty Coffee
Sango operates a micro-roastery inside a 1670 Dutch gable house on Stromarkt, with the 1.5 kg roaster visible through…
Scandinavian Embassy
Since 2013 this corner café on the edge of Sarphatipark has been the benchmark for Nordic coffee culture in…
Barmhartig Koffie
Barmhartig Koffie sits on Veemkade in Amsterdam's Oostelijk Havengebied, overlooking IJhaven with a calm waterfront…
Friedhats FUKU Cafe
Co-founder Lex Wenneker, Dutch Barista Champion and World Barista Championship silver medalist, runs FUKU more like a…
Haku Specialty Coffee
Haku roasts all its own beans on-site, focusing on light-roast single origins that express distinct terroir and…
White Label Coffee
Transparency is baked into White Label's DNA: every bean on the menu is traceable back to the farmer, and the…
4850
Originally a neighbourhood restaurant on Camperstraat, 4850 pivoted to specialty coffee during the pandemic and has…
Coffee Bru
Anchored to the Beukenplein in Amsterdam Oost, Coffee Bru is the kind of neighbourhood cafe locals guard jealously,…
Five Ways Coffee Roasters
Founded by Melbourne-native Ben O'Callaghan, Five Ways roasts on a Loring S35 and serves from a corner cafe on…
Hummingbird Coffee
Hummingbird on Spuistraat has operated as Amsterdam's leading rotating-roaster bar since opening, bringing in a…
LOT61 Amsterdam Centraal
LOT61's Centraal Station bar brings the roastery's single-origin programme to one of Europe's busiest rail hubs,…
LOT61 Hendrik Jacobszstraat
The second Lot Sixty One cafe brings the roastery's celebrated espresso programme to the quieter streets of Oud West,…
Monks Coffee Roasters
Melbourne-trained founder Patrick Abbott channelled his southern hemisphere coffee education into this…
Rum Baba Coffeeroasters
Rum Baba began as Coffee Bru roughly fifteen years ago before growing into a full-service micro-roastery and bakery…
Rum Baba Elandsgracht
The Elandsgracht outpost of Rum Baba brings the roastery's playful packaging and craft-bakery ethos to the western…
Screaming Beans
Screaming Beans has grown from a single Runstraat address in the Nine Streets into a network of four city-centre…
Screaming Beans Amstelstraat
The Amstelstraat branch of Screaming Beans sits in a stretch of Centrum that balances tourist traffic with a genuine…
Stooker Specialty Coffee
B Corp certified and SCA-accredited, Stooker occupies a beautiful square on Kastanjeplein in Oost, combining a…
Toki
Nestled on a quiet corner in the Jordaan near Haarlemmerdijk, Toki has been committed from day one to serving…
Uncommon Coffee
Roasting under the Common Greens label since 2018, Uncommon has built a following around sourcing lots that are…
White Label Coffee Noord
White Label's Noord outpost extends the brand's ethics-forward roasting programme to Amsterdam's creative north bank,…
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