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Cafe means pub; a coffeeshop is where one gets marijuana.
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Een bier
,
een pils
or
een vaas
is a normal-sized glass of beer;
een kleintje pils
is a small glass.
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A
koffie
is black;
koffie verkeerd
(coffee 'wrong') is made with milk, similar to a caffe latte.
Best Brown Cafes
Café 't Smalle
The city's most intimate canalside drinking: you can't get closer to the wa-
ter without jumping in. (
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Hoppe
An icon of drinking history with a bottom- less vat, beloved by journalists, bums
and raconteurs. (
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Drinking canalside in De Wallen (
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CaféIn 't Aepjen
Candles burn all day long at this time-warped cafe in a 500-year-old
house. (
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De Sluyswacht
Swig in the lockkeeper's quarters across the way from Rembrandt's
house. (
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