Let's start the voteing for 420

[hestia]

Al righty! here we go everyone the fiddle- farting around is comming to a end. We need to start thinking about starting the process to pick out our favorite coffeeshops for the upcomming 420 2011 So let's start with the long list! Give me your top10....Lets get this party started!!!!Thanks for the help LEMMING you rock !

[hestia]

My top 10 are
420 De gral -old favorite of mine. Good music, good weed and I like the people
Grey area - good weed -enjoy the budtender
Basjoes - good weed, James and great view on a canal
Kazu -good weed,great seating in the back room
Greenplace -good weed, good view for watching the people passing by.
Paradox - most helpfull budtender i've ever met,also you can get 5 euro bags there!
voygers- not tried yet
yoyo-Not tried yet
kabutor(sp)-not tried yet

[Dave J]

Well ones I certainly want to visit are:

Hill Street Blues (the original 1 just donw from hunters)
Green Place (never been)
Gray Area
Basjoe (dont think I've been)
Voyager (never been)
Anyday (never been)
420 (never been)
Hunters
Abraxas
Dampkring (only ever been here once as a bugger to find stoned in the dark lol)

[liquidSwords]

In no particular order

1 Paradox - friendliest and most chilled out place i've been in Amsterdam
2 Mellow Yellow - Had the most funniest times in this shop
3 Barneys - Always my 1st stop, never had a problem, good music
4 Grey Area - Quality bud
5 Greenplace - Quality bud, good music
6 Homegrown Fantasy - Friendly, had good Cheese, always worth a visit
7 Media - Spacious and super friendly and extensive menu
8 Dampkring - Quantity on the menu, best hot chocolates in Dam
9 Amnesia - Great hosts during the Cup, not just for the judges, good weed
10 YoYo - Offers something different, outdoor grown weed at cheap prices

There are so many more shops i like, Bluebird, Basjoes, Voyagers, De Graal, Tweede Kamer.......

Cant wait til April (Icelandic Volcano ashcloud erupting permitting!!!!!)

[Colina]

...420 De gral -old favorite of mine. Good music, good weed and I like the people
...

do you mean 420 de kuil, or de graal?


here's my top ten:
GA
Katsu
Papillon
Amnesia (or Barney's (then the lounge would be prefered)
Kadinski (Rosmarijnsteeg)
Blue Bird
Dampring (Handboogstraat)
Mellow Yellow
de Graal
Voyagers

11-20 would be

Bushdoctor
Greenhouse Centrum (O.Voorburgwal)
Abraxxas
Kashmir Lounge
Club Media
Siberie
Rusland
Greenplace
Dolphins
Stix

[islandgurl]

Mellow Yellow
Basjoe
Grey Area
Green Place
Katsu
Amnesia
Dampkring
Kadinsky
420/DeKuil
Solo (formerly Stix)
Kabouter

Okay so that's 11

New to try: Voyagers

[badbone]

new coffee shops to be tested...
420/DeKuil
Papillon
Bushdocter
Dampkring

top ten coffee shops .. in no particular order
Voyagers
Homegrown Fantasy
Anyday
Paradox
Basjoes
Katsu
Stones Corner
De Rokerij
Kadinsky
1e Hulp

[Lemming]

Can I just clarify please - are we nominating shops for the Hestia Cup and separately for a crawl around less obvious shops we'd like to check out? Please remember, if we're going to assemble the long list of nominations for the Hestia into a poll then the maximum for a poll is 50. If everyone nominates 10 we could reach 50 quite quickly.

A few favourites off the top of my head:

Ballonnetje
Homegrown Fantasy
Sanementereng
Greenhouse Namaste
Paradox
Katsu
Yo-Yo
Kashmir Lounge
Basjoe
Grey Area

A few places I'd like to check out:

Bij
Boerejongens
Voyagers
Sensemillia
Trefpunt
De Graal (I used to love the Chai Shop but never been in Graal)

[hestia]

Sorry for my mistake I ment 420 dekull. But when i'm in town i'de like to go to de grall too. also the mellow yellow and kadinski(sp) see thats the problem I want to go to LOTS of coffeeshops, this is one of the reasons i'm staying for 3 weeks this year. anyway lets do 2 selection lists for the 420. old favorites -6 shops. and 4 shops we havent tried yet but would really like too. 10 in total.

[gapie]

i will follow the gang
and i will help if we get lost orso

[hestia]

Sorry I don't think I was very clear, what I want to say is this. vote for the 10 coffeeshops you want to go to in Amsterdam we'll keep count and then about a week/10 days before we start meeting up for the 420 We'll let everyone know who the top 10 choices are and then we'll start setting up all the T&T"S I figgure that we can do 3 or 4 coffeeshops a day and not totally kill ourselfs .this is the easyist way I can think of doing the whole thing. So it's kind of like gambling PICK 10 AND HOPE YOU WIN ! So Come on you bunch fo F#$%*up stoners lets do this thing ( super sorry but everyone needs to vote agin---my bad) remember just 10

[hestia]

My top 10 are
basjoes
420
grey area
voyagers
mellow yellow
kazu
yoyo
greenplace
paradox Kadniskies(sp)

[badbone]

so we just try again

Papillon
Dampkring
Voyagers
Homegrown Fantasy
Paradox
Basjoes
Katsu
Stones Corner
De Rokerij
1e Hulp

[Uncle Ron]

So many shops, so little time.

420/De Kuil
Amnesia
Basjoe
Dampkring (original)
Grey Area
Katsu
Kabouter
Mellow Yellow
Prix D'Ami
Tweede Kamer

Smoker Friendly
t'Nes
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Places I would like to check out:
Every C/S and smoker friendly establishment that I haven't visited.

[Colina]

here's my top ten again:

GA (tasty weed, best budtenders, was never disappointed, really special)
Katsu (no words can explain it's just love)
Papillon (very good weed and hash low priced, best talks possible with local guys, clean styled shop)
Amnesia (or Barney's (then the lounge would be prefered) (barneys weed is still special)
Kadinski (Rosmarijnsteeg) (best value/quality offers in the centrum, clean styled shop)
Blue Bird (was one of my first amsterdam coffeeshops over 13 years ago, haven't been there for years as it's a bit aside imo, but great shop)
Dampring (Handboogstraat) (just a clasic! and my appartment is in the same street )
Mellow Yellow (another clasic!)
de Graal (nice atmosphere, burgermester and cafe loetje is not far )
Voyagers (newcomer of the year )