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guys can any1 tell me where to find the absinthe bar i have been hearing about it and i want to take my friends for a real absinthe experience lol

It's closed.

oh come on ur serious .... damn i did so ant it .... in malta we get absinthe but its shitty commercial stuff....

Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 171 just South of the Magna Plaza behind the Royal Palace. Here is some info http://www.10best.com/Amsterdam,Netherl ... Amsterdam/

Peace,
Balou

wait so i am guessing it is still open ?

No, it's closed. But the address is useful incase you wanted to go have a look at where it used to be... It's been closed for awhile now, somebody has started renovating it recently, but I don't think they intend to continue it as the absinthe bar. Tetra down the street used to sell absinthe but I don't know what quality it is. Search and ye shall find.

Damn, I didn't know. Went there a few years back and had a great time.

DC wrote:No, it's closed. But the address is useful incase you wanted to go have a look at where it used to be... It's been closed for awhile now, somebody has started renovating it recently, but I don't think they intend to continue it as the absinthe bar. Tetra down the street used to sell absinthe but I don't know what quality it is. Search and ye shall find.

dammmit. any other bars you can reccommend?

I went to that place in about 2004/5 it was good dark but good...

sorry for bumping up an old topic, but the information on the web is so confusing: is the absinthe bar closed or not? I'd love to go there, it looks so great...

Does anyone have up-to-date news on this?

LadyM wrote:sorry for bumping up an old topic, but the information on the web is so confusing: is the absinthe bar closed or not? I'd love to go there, it looks so great...

Does anyone have up-to-date news on this?

take DC's word for it, he lives their & works in the trade so he knows

It's reopened as some little restaurant\bar type thing, normal hours and nothing like it was.

I think one of the bars on Oude Leliestraat (the street where Grey Area is) serves absinthe. That info is a bit out of date, but I remember seeing a sign outside a bar there last summer that said: "Sober? We can help! We serve genuine absinthe!" Hope that helps, like I said, that sign was out in August 2009, not sure if it's still around.

Can anyone confirm a bar that serves absinthe? My travel companions were incredibly disappointed, and I had hoped there would be at least somewhere we could go. I remember seeing bottles available at a liquor store on Nieuwezijds, but would prefer a bar.....

theres a liquor store near 420 cafe where u can buy absinthe and the equipment to drink it.