cosed and slated to close coffeeshops
Posted: Tue 16th Feb 2016 03:14 am
CLOSED COFFEESHOPS IN AMSTERDAMHere are closed and slated to close shops:
Phase 1, July 1, 2014
Ben, Kolksteeg
Betty Boop, Nieuwezijds Kolk
Gouden Boon, Da Costastraat
The Grasshopper, Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal
Homegrown Fantasy, Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal
De Kade, Stadionkade
Magic, Herengracht
Ocean, Dusartstraat
The Power, Wibautstraat
The Wauw Shop, Spaarndammerdijk
Phase 2, January 2015
Abraxas, Spuistraat
Anyday, Korte Kolksteeg
Biba, Hazenstraat
The Energy Shop, Spuistraat
Phase 3, July 2016
El Guapo, Nieuwe Nieuwstraat
De Graal, Albert Cuypstraat
High Time, Jan van Galenstraat
De Kroon Twee, Oudebrugsteeg
De Kroon Drie, Rietwijkerstraat
De Kuil, Oudebrugsteeg - Has already moved to the old Dutch Flowers.
Little, Vijzelgracht
Lucifera, Frederik Hendrikstraat
Mediterranee,Spuistraat
Mellow Yellow, Vijzelgracht (1967 first licensed shop in Amsterdam)
Resin, Hekelveld
Space Mountain, Dusartstraat
Today, Dusartstraat
Utopia
El Yamama / closed 2014
Gouden Boon /closed since 2014
Pick up the Pieces / closed 2015
The Power / closed since 1 July 2014 ( new location )
Ocean / closed since 1 July 2014
Rastababy / closed since 2012
Freeworld / closed since 1 april 2015
Bulldog Lounge / closed Janury 2015
Anyday / closed down 1 january 2015
The Doors Palace / closed 2014
Ben / closed 1.7.2014
Blues Brothers / closed
Funny People / closed 2013 (a SMOKER café now)
Twilight Zone / closed 1.1.2014
Coffeeshop 36 / closed since fall 2013
Speak Easy / closed since 1.1.2014
Highway / closed 1.1.2014,
Freeland / closed since 2013
Greenhouse Effect / moved to the Nieuwmarkt
Speak Easy / closed since 1.1.2014
Het Oerwoud / closed december 2014
High Time / closed April 2015
Coffeeshop Baba / closed September 2015
Gouden Boon / closed since 2014
Pick up the Pieces / closed 2015
Free A’dam / closed since 2011
Magic / closed since 1 July 2014
Stone’s Corner / moved in 2015 to south Amsterdam
Hillstreet Blues / closed since fall 2013 (a café now)
Baba, Coffeeshop Sheeba has gone....
Phase 1, July 1, 2014?
de kade coffeeshop is still open...
Update, Coffeeshops The Bulldog (Leidseplein),
Rookies Bar (Korte Leidsedwarsstraat), and Get Down To it (Korte Leidsedwarsstraat) will have not to close after all.
All three shops would have had to close by January 1, 2016, because they were said to be located within 250 meters of a high school — in this case the Barlaeus Gymnasium.
But now the Municipality of Amsterdam says it inadvertently used the ‘wrong front door’ of the school as a reference point. This door is not used at all — and has not been used for many years.
The school’s actual entrance is just a few meters east of the door the city initially used, but ‘well ouside’ the 250 meters criteria
This means that 28 instead of 31 coffeeshops will be phased out.
Henk de Vries, owner of The Bulldog, tells local news TV station AT5, “Obviously I’m very relieved, but I’m not very happy. Lots of colleagues will still have to close their doors. But I’m very happy for my staff, some of whom have worked here for years...