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Discover Amsterdam's finest wine bars, each selected for their outstanding glass pours, impressive cellars, and warm hospitality. Across the canal ring, the old centre, De Pijp, and Oud-Zuid, 14 remarkable venues offer exquisite Burgundy, Bordeaux, grower Champagne, and biodynamic selections. Explore grand hotel dining rooms, delightful canal-side wijnbars, and vibrant neighbourhood gastrobars that reveal the city's wine culture.
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FLORE RESTAURANT, DE L'EUROPE
Restaurant · Nieuwe Doelenstraat, 2-14, 1012 CP
Inside the grand De L'Europe hotel, moments from the Amstel, Flore is Amsterdam fine dining at its most quietly radical. Chef Bas van Kranen holds two Michelin stars and a Green Star for a botanical, dairy-free kitchen built on seasonal Dutch produce, and the cellar thinks the same way. Wine director Antonello Nicastri has grown the list past 1,500 labels, arranged in three strands: low-intervention and biodynamic bottles mirroring the kitchen's philosophy, a classical sweep through Burgundy, Barolo, Bordeaux and the Jura, and a closing chapter of sweet and fortified rarities. By the glass, pours run from grower Champagne to genuine curiosities, a Burgundian-styled Japanese Chardonnay and Croatian Pošip among them, all served by a team that clearly enjoys surprising people.
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Oocker
Wine Bar · Frederiksplein, 29h, 1017 XL
On Frederiksplein, Oocker is what happens when two sommeliers open the bar they always wanted to drink in. Tim Meyer Viol and Niels van der Werf keep more than 400 bottles behind the counter and pour a remarkable share of them by the glass, leaning towards small artisan growers from the Loire, Jura and Burgundy, with detours through Germany, Greece and South Africa. Natural, orange and biodynamic bottles sit beside blue-chip names, and the blackboard occasionally turns gloriously absurd: Château d'Yquem 1981 has appeared by the glass. Stefano Orofino's Italian-accented snacks keep pace with the drinking, and the narrow room stays deliberately unstuffy, with no white tablecloths in sight, just serious wine served with real warmth and a healthy disregard for ceremony.
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Restaurant Vinkeles**
Restaurant · Keizersgracht 384, 1016 GB Amsterdam, Nederland
Within The Dylan on the Keizersgracht, Vinkeles occupies an eighteenth-century former bakery in the Nine Streets quarter, all candlelight and old brick. Chef Jurgen van der Zalm cooks modern French food of real precision, and the wine service matches it: sommeliers Jasper van Amerongen and Virginie Kühn work a list that roams the world while keeping its heart in Europe, from grand Burgundy and Bordeaux through Barolo to old-vine Chenin Blanc. More than sixty wines pour by the glass, and the choices show genuine nerve: a Dutch sparkling Riesling from Domein Aldenborgh, a svelte German Spätburgunder, even a plum sake matched to the cheese course. Established estates and rising winemakers share the page here as equals, which is exactly as it should be.
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Teppanyaki Restaurant Sazanka
Restaurant · Ferdinand Bolstraat 333, 1072 LH Amsterdam, Netherlands
At Hotel Okura Amsterdam, Sazanka seats guests around teppanyaki counters where chefs work the hot steel directly in front of them, dinner as live performance executed with Japanese exactness. The drinking is taken just as seriously. Ákos Turi, one of only two Sake Masters in the Netherlands, steers a programme of full-bodied, expressive sakes with the depth to stand up to the theatre of the grill, alongside a wine list weighted towards Bordeaux and Spain. More than sixty pours are available by the glass, from the delicately floral Miyakanbai Alfa 55 to mature claret, and the pairing advice is worth surrendering to across a full menu. Few rooms in Amsterdam marry spectacle and connoisseurship quite so gracefully.
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Yamazato Restaurant
Restaurant · Ferdinand Bolstraat 333, 1072 LH Amsterdam, Netherlands
Yamazato has served formal kaiseki cuisine at Hotel Okura Amsterdam since 1971, its serene dining room looking onto a Japanese garden. Head chef Masanori Tomikawa composes seasonal menus of small, exacting dishes, many built on ingredients flown in from Japan, and the beverage service honours that same purity. Sake leads the way: Ákos Turi, one of only two Sake Masters in the Netherlands, favours crisp, delicate bottlings, often from northern Japan, chosen to sit lightly against the food. The wine list adds a classical counterpoint of Bordeaux and Spanish labels, and more than sixty options pour by the glass, stretching, remarkably, to Château d'Yquem 2019. For anyone curious how far sake and kaiseki can elevate one another, this is the room to find out.
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Bar Brasserie OCCO
Restaurant · Keizersgracht 384, 1016 GB Amsterdam, Nederland
OCCO is The Dylan's all-day bar and brasserie, running from morning coffee in the tranquil courtyard to late-evening glamour at the bar. Chef Stefan Schuchard sends out seasonal plates with a light, creative touch, while sommeliers Jasper van Amerongen and Virginie Kühn, the team behind the hotel's fine-dining cellar, look after the wine. More than forty choices pour by the glass, balancing famous names against discoveries: Ayala's Brut Majeur Champagne, an old-vine Skaliekop Chenin Blanc from South Africa, and a Riesling made exclusively for the hotel with Mosel grower Bernhard Eifel. Bordeaux, Burgundy and Champagne anchor the list, but the real pleasure lies in letting the team pull something unexpected and settling in for a long, unhurried afternoon.
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Bubbles & Wines Amsterdam
Restaurant · Nes 37, 1012 KC Amsterdam, Nederland
On the Nes, one of Amsterdam's oldest streets and a minute's stroll from Dam Square, Bubbles & Wines is the city's Champagne-and-wine bar in miniature: a warm, low-lit room where owners Sven and Johnny pour with infectious enthusiasm. Around forty-five wines are open by the glass at any moment, rotating constantly, drawn from a cellar of more than five hundred bottles that reaches from Burgundy and Bordeaux to Italy and Spain. Champagne is the house obsession, and the sparkling page runs far deeper than most restaurants manage. Small plates of cheese and charcuterie are built for grazing between glasses, and the mood stays relaxed and social. This is a bar for tasting your way sideways through a list, not standing on ceremony.
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Ciel Bleu
Restaurant · Ferdinand Bolstraat 333, 1072 LH Amsterdam, Netherlands
Twenty-three floors above Ferdinand Bolstraat, at the top of the Hotel Okura, Ciel Bleu pairs a sweeping skyline view with some of the most polished cooking in the city. Chef Arjan Speelman threads Asian seasoning through classical French technique, while the sommelier team led by Gioele Di Ganni keeps more than forty wines open by the glass from a cellar of around 620 labels. Bordeaux and Burgundy anchor the list, but the pairings roam happily through the Rhône, German Riesling and, pleasingly, serious Sherry, poured with real conviction alongside the tasting menus. This is occasion dining rather than a casual stop, yet the wine service stays warm and genuinely unstuffy. Book a window table at dusk, hand the evening over to the pairing flight, and watch Amsterdam light up below.
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Wijnbar Vindict
Restaurant · Docklandsweg, 3, 1031 KN
In the docklands corner of Amsterdam-Noord, Vindict turns the usual restaurant logic on its head: the wine comes first and the food is written around it. Sommelier Jan-Jaap Altenburg pours more than fifty wines by the glass from a cellar running past eight hundred bottles, ranging from Champagne, Burgundy and mature Bordeaux to Oregon Pinot Noir, English sparkling wine and bottlings from Dutch soil close to home. Locally sourced sharing plates stay deliberately simple so each pour remains the star, and the adjoining shop means the bottle you fall for at the bar can come home with you. Open Wednesday to Saturday, it has quickly become the gathering point for serious wine lovers north of the IJ, and it is worth the short ferry ride on its own.
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A Tavola
Restaurant · Kadijksplein 9, 1018 AC Amsterdam, Netherlands
A fixture on Kadijksplein since 1999, A Tavola is the Mazziotta family's love letter to the Italian table: bread baked in-house every morning, fish bought daily at auction, and a house speciality of sea bream in a salt crust, filleted beside your chair. The wine list is where the obsession really shows. Bottles are imported directly from Italy, with Barolo and Barbaresco in proper depth alongside Super Tuscans, traditional-method sparklers and a growing band of organic and biodynamic growers; since Giuseppe Mazziotta returned to the family business, the cellar has swelled into one of the city's most comprehensive Italian collections. In summer the terrace looks over the drawbridge by the old harbour, and there are few nicer spots in Amsterdam to sit with a glass of aged Nebbiolo.
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REM Restaurant
Restaurant · Haparandadam 45, 1013 AK Amsterdam, Nederland
Few dining rooms carry a backstory like REM's. This steel platform in the Houthavens began life in the 1960s as an offshore pirate radio and television station, and today stands on its legs above the IJ as restaurant, cocktail bar and rooftop terrace in one. The wine list runs to around 150 bottles, with more than twenty poured by the glass: a considered blend of classics everyone recognises and genuine sommelier discoveries, Barolo and Burgundy to the fore, German Riesling and Spanish reds in support, and a proper Port selection to close the evening. The cooking is elaborate without fuss, the cocktails arrive with a twist, and the water views are absurdly good. Come at golden hour, order a glass of Nebbiolo, and settle in above the harbour.
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Remouillage
Restaurant · Trompenburgstraat 111, 1079 TV Amsterdam, Netherlands
Remouillage takes its name from the stock-maker's trick of simmering bones a second time, which tells you plenty about Jonathan Sparber's thrifty, French-rooted, no-waste kitchen in the Rivierenbuurt. The room seats around thirty, with a food bar facing the open kitchen, candlelight and a terrace on the street; guests order in small increments while Sparber serves both plates and pours himself. The list is devoted to organic, biodynamic and low-intervention growers, taking in cool-climate Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Riesling alongside pét-nat and skin-contact bottles, with cult names such as Anders Frederik Steen and Christian Tschida appearing by the glass. Nothing is hurried and nothing is wasted. For anyone chasing natural wine with genuinely soulful cooking attached, this quiet street south of the Amstel is the address.
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Ron Gastrobar
Restaurant · Sophialaan 55, 1075 BP Amsterdam, Nederland
When Ron Blaauw traded the white-tablecloth formality of his former flagship for this looser Oud-Zuid dining room in 2013, Amsterdam gained one of its most dependable good-time restaurants. The kitchen follows the season and the market, sending out sharing-friendly plates shaped by whatever inspires the chefs that week, and the wine programme matches that generosity. Burgundy, Bordeaux and Barolo form the classical spine, but the sommeliers pour with equal enthusiasm from Grosses Gewächs Riesling, Oregon Pinot Noir, the Jura and South Africa, and the by-the-glass selection changes often enough to reward regulars. It is the rare address where the cooking is genuinely refined yet nobody minds if you order a burger-adjacent dish with a serious red. Booking ahead is wise; the neighbourhood knows exactly how good it has it.
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Wijnbar Paskamer
Wine Bar · Lutmastraat, 132, 1073 HB
On a quiet stretch of Lutmastraat, away from De Pijp's busier terraces, Paskamer is the sort of neighbourhood wine bar every city should be issued. At least thirty wines are open by the glass at any moment, drawn from a list that climbs past three hundred labels: Burgundy and Champagne share space with German Riesling, Rhône Syrah, cool-climate Chardonnay and a handful of orange and low-intervention pours for the adventurous. The staff read the table well, steering you towards something apt rather than something expensive, and the sharing menu of bitterballen, steak tartare and cheese boards is built for grazing through several glasses. Big windows, seats inside and out, and no hint of hurry make it an easy place to lose an entire evening, one considered pour at a time.
View Full DetailsWine by the glass turns a single evening into a tasting flight, and the wine bars in Amsterdam above show how far a thoughtful by-the-glass programme can travel — from grower Champagne to bio-dynamic reds. Use the map to plan a crawl by neighbourhood, and open each venue for opening hours, the current pour list, and booking details.
The Coravin Guide reviews each venue independently, focusing on the ambition and depth of what they pour by the glass. No venue pays to be included.