Best Amsterdam Coffee Shops

Visit the Very Best Amsterdam Coffee Shops While In Town 

    

Finding the best coffee shops in Amsterdam is not an easy task. Known for its liberal viewpoints on matters spanning the use of hallucinogenics to prostitution, hundreds of thousands of people visit Amsterdam annually. Although not nearly all visitors to Amsterdam focus their trip around the country’s lax drug laws, many of the tourists are in search of Amsterdam’s best coffee shops and the beautiful wares that they provide.

 

Locating the absolute best of the Amsterdam coffee shops will require a little knowledge. Mainly just a nice map of the city and the addresses and general locations of some good Amsterdam coffee shops. It is entirely beneficial to know these since, contrary to popular belief, Amsterdam is not a weed heaven by any stretch of the imagination. A majority of the weed sold as premium strains doesn’t even resemble high-quality marijuana, and a lot more of it that does at least appear to be of decent quality, is found to be extremely dry once taken out of the bag and cured very poorly. Even in some of the places I will soon list as the best coffee shops in Amsterdam today, some of the weed can’t compare to the connoisseur strains of Humboldt or the experienced personal grows within British Columbia. Places like the Bulldog and Prix D’Ami have increasingly been selling below-mediocre beasters at 11 or 12 euro a gram prices.

 
    In this light, we must stand up and support the best Amsterdam coffee shops that continually provide both tourists and locals with some of the greatest marijuana in not only Amsterdam, but a good majority of the World. I have compiled a list of three of the best coffee shops located in Amsterdam:

 

Greenhouse Centrum:

    Year in and year out, the Greenhouse Centrum has effectively maintained the title of one of the best coffee shops in Amsterdam. With numerous Cannabis Cup winners on its menu at any given time, its extensive list of both hash and weed items always aims to please. Located on Oudezijds Voorburgwal, it is considered by many to be the nicest coffee shops between the Dam Square and Red Light District.

 

    It has numerous bubble and ice-o-later hashes available, ranging from 12 euro to 65 euro a gram, such as Moroccan Ice and one called Bubble Mania. The coffee shop’s current top-shelf strains are Arjan’s Strawberry Haze and a hydro-cultivated strain called Cheese. It’s eclectic, large purple menu offers 20 kinds of weed and 10 types of hash, helping to secure its title as one of the best Amsterdam coffee shops.

 

De Dampkring:

    This connoisseur heaven is one of the best Amsterdam coffee shops available. With prices on weed peaking at 12 euro a gram, it’s a one-stop shop for some of the best strains in the city at fairly reasonable prices. It’s current top three strains are all haze varieties, including Mako, Neville’s & Hawaiian. The hashish offered by De Dampkring is good, but pales in comparison to both the selection and the quality of its marijuana counterparts.

 

    Still, though, being one of the best coffee shops in Amsterdam, it has delicious Umma Gumma hash at only 7.50 a gram and six different kinds of Rifman hash, which is high-quality, professionally manufactured hashish in the hills of Morocco. Since its inception in 1993, both De Dampkring’s owners as well as its employees have strived to make their business the best coffee shop in Amsterdam.

 
Grey Area:

    A virtual mecca for American tourists, a few locals & foreigners of all kinds, this good Amsterdam coffee shop is known for its quality and award-winning strains. My personal favourite is the Grey Crystal Nederhash, which is simply unpressed trichomes that perfectly compliment any bowl or joint of pure weed. With moderate prices and unique, award-winning varieties such as Chocolope and Big Buddha Cheese, Grey Area has been labelled one of the best coffee shops in all of Amsterdam.

 

    Established in 1994 by two American entrepreneurs known as “The Chiefs,” this coffee shop has always been known for its well-grown and cured marijuana that it is supplied with. This fact, in conjunction with the business savvy and good customer service that Grey Area has always provided, is the reason it will always be on the top of list for the best Amsterdam coffee shops. 

There you have it, my top three list of the best coffee shops in Amsterdam that have continually provided good service & marijuana to the city for over 15 years.