Discover Benelux | Highlights | Rembrandtplein, Utrechtsestraat & Leidseplein
Tap your own beer while you eat TEXT: MICHIEL STOL | PHOTOS: TAP & DINE
Honest, quality food with the best ingredients. Plus, you get to be your own bartender with a personal tap installation on the table. You can fill your own glass with a perfect draft beer. Situated on the first floor above The Waterhole live music bar, this is Tap & Dine.
& Dine has 16 tables with a tap, you do not have to come in with a large group. The venue welcomes all sizes, from a party of two to a party of 70. Keeping in line with the live music bar downstairs, the handsomely decorated restaurant pays homage to the greatest artists in music. Grand depictions of legends like Jimi
Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain are displayed stylishly on the wall. If you want to enjoy great quality food and your own private tap, make sure you try the true Tap & Dine experience. You will not find a better alternative on the Leidseplein. www.tapanddine.nl
The menu consists of honest and tasty dishes, made using ingredients of the highest quality. This is what has been missing from many of the establishments on the Leidseplein. Tap & Dine offers the best there is for a fair price. Not only is the food fantastic, but you can be your own barman. Most tables have a personal tap installed, so you can pour your own beer while you are eating. The tap registers its use per centilitre, so you only pay for what you drink. With a price of nine euros per litre, it is the best price of the entire square. Since Tap
Enjoying beer and live music TEXT: MICHIEL STOL | PHOTOS: THE WATERHOLE
If you love a good night out and you love live music, make sure you visit The Waterhole live music bar on the Leidseplein. Here you can enjoy cheap beer and live music for free. In the words of owner Artur Zurek: “It is the best place on the square.” The Waterhole has been the place to be on the Leidseplein for 27 years now. It offers the cheapest beers of the square and is the only one that has live music every night, all night long. On Mondays, up to four acts from all over the world play their self-written originals, on Tuesdays and Wednesdays there are open jam sessions inviting you to join the stage! Thursday is a funk/soul/disco-night to get you dancing, while Fridays and Saturdays are all about contemporary rock and Sunday offers the most surprising acts from all genres. The Waterhole is a place where everybody is welcome. From dockworkers to doctors, locals and tourists, everybody is equal and talks to each other. They dance in front of the stage, play pool at one of the three tables or chess
at the tables outside. Enjoy the famous Frosty Pint, a pint of beer in a frozen glass, during the longest happy hour in Amsterdam. From noon till 9pm, this frosty pint only costs 3.50 euros. So if you want to enjoy live music, great people and cheap beers, there is no better place than The Waterhole. Once you hear the music and take in the ambience, you will want to stay forever. www.waterhole.nl/en
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