De Graal

Great coffeeshop, Caro the owner will provide you with good advices on her great products! Relaxing place, not too crowded, a lot of chess tables, cheap prices for drinks and fine reggae playlists!

Great coffee, one of the best for its relaxing atmosphere. Good weed and hash also. Go there!

If you go to the Albert Cuyp Market go all the way to the end of the market. You will see a McDonald's; stay on that side of the street and walk along that street make no turns until you come to De Graal. If you walk over the canal you have walked too far. Fantastic prices! Laid back chill place, table games, board games, books in Dutch mostly, nice, cozy, big, old chairs and couches and a small bar as you enter. I am a modern/old hippy at heart and love places to hang out in my t-shirt and dirty jeans. I like places with real people of substance who enjoy their smoke. You can be left alone here or chat with the assistant if you sit at the bar. Sometimes you need to visit the big popular places and the Cannabis Cup winners to appreciate places like this after all of the hoopla. Plenty of places to eat in the area from that gourmet patisserie you passed on the way to a cool burger place called BugerMeester.

The closest coffeeshop to our hotel on Hobbemakade, and the best we visited on the entire trip. Chess lovers would be in heaven, the decor is eclectic and invites you to stay all day, coffee is proper coffee. Really friendly owner, staff and customers, mostly locals with a few tourists like ourselves too. 5,10 & 20 Euro deals on weed or buy per gram, all superb potent strains. Nevilles Haze a bargain by summer 09 standards at 8.50/g was amazing. Edelweiss at 8E/g tasted great and was very potent. On our 1st visit the High Rise (aka MasterKush) was recommended - at 10E/g the priciest on the menu but how weed should be - sticky as hell, fat buds, potent and the sweetest taste. Goldrup at 7.50/g was bloody good too and the polm (blond) was the nuts at 6E/g. Mad props to De Graal - my favourite shop in Amsterdam for the great staff, service and punk - great cat and rooftop area too!

Very nice place, overall atmosphere similar to the Rainbow Cafe in Nimbin, Australia where I spent some time in my youth. The service was excellent, the girl is a fox and was more than able to provide a strain for the lightweights in my group to myself (heavyweight). Nice music, nice customers. The joints were not hash drained buds either. Overall fair prices and a nice place to mellow out at.