Café Lowietje, a brown café in the heart of the Jordaan, is known from the popular Dutch TV series Baantjer: the stools where detectives Vledder and De Cock sat are still in the same place.
Cafe Saarein is located on the corner with the Elandsstraat.
't Smalle Egelantiersgracht 12 Originally a gin and liqueur distillery founded in 1780 by Peter Hoppe, who later moved to Schiedam.
It is certainly not the oldest café in Amsterdam - there is always a lot of discussion about it - but it is an authentic brown cafe.
The building is a national monument dating from 1622, which has been a cafe since 1896.
The cafe opened its doors in 1937.
De Twee Zwaantjes Prinsengracht 114 Originally opened in 1800 under the name De Vergulde Turf.
Curtains on the windows, rugs on the table and an own seat for regular customers.
Many of these cafes can still be visited.
People from the Jordaan like to chat, gossip and drink with each other in these kinds of bars, called ‘brown cafe’.