door 74 (Amsterdam)

[Philip Duff]

[utterly shameless plug alert!!!!]

If there's a place where grown-up people enjoy classic drinks, this is probably it, so without further ado, the menu for my new bar, a little speakeasy in Amsterdam: http://www.scribd.com/doc/7629115/door-74-autumn-drinks-menu

I'm blogging about the opening for Mixology (Germany), and it is to follow here: http://www.mixology.eu/en/blog/barbau-bar-...-74-amsterdam-i . Eventually I'll open the whole kimono: costs, screw-ups, recipe specs, the lot.

I've loved genever for as many of the 13 years I've spent here in Holland, and we've added 4 genever drinks to a menu of 4 signatures and 8 seasonal themes (autumn theme s C. Baker Jr, the peripatetic womanising devil). The Mr. Antoni is my favourite, a riff on the Penicillin but made with Paradisewine genever (really, really, old, aged and expensive - and almost unobtainable), with homemade honey-ginger, lemon and a Peat Monster float. If any of the current selection has the potential to stay on the list 'come the winter menu around 15 Dec, it's that one. It's named, to continue the "penicillin" theme, after Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, who found time in between being a bedsheet tycoon in Delft (seriously!) to lay the basis for modern microbiology and the use of the microscope, and all this in the 1500s. Until now, unbelieveably, there was no cocktail named in his honour...

Oh, and if you should happen to be in the Athens of the North, as Amsterdam is sometimes described (other times as "Sodom and Gomorrah with tulips and clogs"), do drop by - when the green light is on, Tuesday-Saturday, just ring the bell and join us behind the curtain....

[Chufi]

[utterly shameless plug alert!!!!]

If there's a place where grown-up people enjoy classic drinks, this is probably it, so without further ado, the menu for my new bar, a little speakeasy in Amsterdam: http://www.scribd.com/doc/7629115/door-74-autumn-drinks-menu 

I'm blogging about the opening for Mixology (Germany), and it is to follow here: http://www.mixology.eu/en/blog/barbau-bar-...-74-amsterdam-i . Eventually I'll open the whole kimono: costs, screw-ups, recipe specs, the lot.

I've loved genever for as many of the 13 years I've spent here in Holland, and we've added 4 genever drinks to a  menu of 4 signatures and 8 seasonal themes (autumn theme s C. Baker Jr, the peripatetic womanising devil). The Mr. Antoni is my favourite, a riff on the Penicillin but made with Paradisewine genever (really, really, old, aged and expensive - and almost unobtainable), with homemade honey-ginger, lemon and a Peat Monster float. If any of the current selection has the potential to stay on the list 'come the winter menu around  15 Dec, it's that one. It's named, to continue the "penicillin" theme, after Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, who found time in between being a bedsheet tycoon in Delft (seriously!) to lay the basis for modern microbiology and the use of the microscope, and all this in the 1500s. Until now, unbelieveably, there was no cocktail named in his honour...

Oh, and if you should happen to be in the Athens of the North, as Amsterdam is sometimes described (other times as "Sodom and Gomorrah with tulips and clogs"), do drop by - when the green light is on, Tuesday-Saturday, just ring the bell and join us behind the curtain....

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Philip, great news.

but... where is it??

[DutchMuse]

From the website, it is on the Reguliersdwarsstraat. (I used to live in the area)

Looking forward to trying your bar when I go back to A'dam in a couple of weeks.

[jparrott]

Go. Just go. It's that good.