Leiden Cafe Crawl: Brown Rooms on the Canal
90 min
1.7 km
10 stops
About this tour
Leiden still drinks in brown rooms around the canals that fed the university town. A self-guided cafe crawl with quizzes in the StepQuests app. Most doors open mid-afternoon.
Itinerary
10 guided stops on this route
Pieterskerkhof
Public yard. Pay the terrace you sit at. Pieterskerkhof, 2311 SR. Church from the late 1300s. University from 1575. A short beer with a jonge jenever beside it…
Cafe Barrera
Pay at the bar or terrace. Rapenburg 56, 2311 EX. Daily from 10:00, Sunday from 11:00. Opened 1968 opposite the academy. Hazelhoff Roelfzema lived above. House…
Cafe L'Esperance
Pay at the bar. Kaiserstraat 1, 2311 GN. Most days from mid-afternoon. Check lesperance.nl. House from 1814. Visit Leiden still tells the Engelandvaarder bottl…
Van Goyen Jeneverhuis
Pay at the bar. Schoolsteeg 4, 2311 TD. Monday from 19:00. Other days from late afternoon. Check jeneverhuis.nl. Birth house of Jan van Goyen. Last billiard ca…
De Vergulde Kruik
Pay at the bar. Haarlemmerstraat 22, 2312 GA. From mid-afternoon most days. Check verguldekruik.nl. Opened 1881 as a liquor shop. House site names a copper bee…
Cafe Einstein
Pay at the table. Nieuwe Rijn 19, 2312 JC. Daily from about 10:00. Terrace is first come. Canal float opposite the town hall. Town beer on the list. This is a…
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