Coffeeshop culture
Amsterdam coffeeshop guide.
A guide to 160 Amsterdam coffeeshops, a strain database with sources, and audio walks through the city from €14.99. Independent: no shop pays for a place.
Come for the coffeeshop. Stay for the city.
Audio walks
The guide you can walk.
Mister Haze takes you to the places behind the pages: the history, the rules and the rooms where it all happened, told out loud while you walk. Pause for a coffee or a coffeeshop, then pick it back up.
All audio walks →
Out nowHigh Tolerance
Everyone knows Amsterdam is tolerant. Few know why.
€14.99+€5 per extra listener, up to 8 phones in sync
- Length
- 2.5 hours
- Route
- Dam Square → Spuistraat
- How you listen
- In your phone’s browser, no app
- Language
- English
The coffeeshops
All 160 coffeeshops.
One honest page per shop: photos, the menu, public ratings and what we think. Find the one that fits the evening you have in mind.
More of Amsterdam
The city around the coffeeshop.
Amsterdam is our home base, where it all started. More cities will follow. Tell us which city you want next.
Meet Monsieur Haze
Not sure what to pick? Ask the sommelier.
Monsieur Haze is Mister Haze’s cousin from Paris. He pours strains the way others pour wine: you tell him about your evening, he reads Amsterdam’s menus and gives you three to choose from.
La carte de ce soir
an example of his answer
- 1Closest matchAmnesia Hazecitrus · earthy · spicy
- 2The gentle oneSuper Silver Hazecitrus · skunk · earthy
- 3Another directionWhite Widowearthy · woody · sweet
Each pick comes with a reason, and the shops that have it.
The series
Dutch Masters.
How Amsterdam’s coffeeshops gave the world its classic strains: who made them, who says they made them, and where the stories fall out.
No. 01
Skunk #1
Hybrid of landrace lines
No. 02
Northern Lights
Indica-leaning, about 90% indica by Sensi's count
No. 03
Neville's Haze
Nevil Schoenmakers, The Seed Bank (reported)
No. 04
Jack Herer
Sensi Seeds
No. 05
White Widow
Green House Seed Company, Amsterdam
No. 06
AK-47
Serious Seeds (Simon)
No. 07
Super Silver Haze
Green House Seed Company (Arjan Roskam)
No. 08
Amnesia Haze
Soma, Soma's Sacred Seeds
No. 09
Super Lemon Haze
Green House Seed Company
The series
High on Art.
What is on in Amsterdam’s museums right now, and until when.
Rijksmuseum
Willem de Kooning at work
Until 17 January 2027
Photo: Rijksmuseum
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Yayoi Kusama
Until 17 January 2027
Photo: Stedelijk Museum
H'ART Museum
Chez Matisse
Until 14 February 2027
Poster: H'ART Museum
Nieuwe Kerk
Queer Amsterdam: The Pink City
Until 4 April 2027
Cover of the book Queer Amsterdam. Atlas van de Roze Stad (W Books, De Nieuwe Kerk, IHLIA LGBTI Heritage)
Inside the database
What’s really on Amsterdam’s menus.
Menus last updated 26 October 2026.
On the most menus
Amnesia Haze
122 menus
Super Silver Haze
70 menus
White Widow
69 menus
Lemon Haze
40 menus
Kosher Kush
32 menus
Gelato
28 menus
Strange names, real strains
Menu words, explained
‘Branded Cali’?
California genetics, sold in a sealed jar with a logo. Higher price, no promise of quality.
What it means →
The smell of a strain
Terpenes.
The compounds that decide how a strain smells. Pick a smell, see the strains.
All terpenes →Strain of the week
Zombie Kush
Smells and tastes of earthy, chemical. People describe it as relaxed, uplifting.
Every strain has a page like this: what it smells like, how people describe it, where it comes from and which shops have it (this one is on 2 Amsterdam menus).
Who’s behind it
Mister Haze is the voice behind the guide and the walks. You never see him, only what he leaves behind: a route, a note, a shop he trusts.
Meet Mister Haze →First access, always.
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