Akhi 'n Friends
Come as a customer, leave as a friend
A koffiebar in Oud-Zuid
We are a specialty coffee bar on a quiet stretch of Ruysdaelstraat, a few minutes’ walk from Museumplein and the Rijksmuseum. The doors open at 7:00 — early for this part of Amsterdam — and we pour until 15:00, Tuesday through Sunday.
More living room than café
People come here to work through a morning with a laptop or to read. There is a rack of clothing and a shelf of books and zines alongside the bar, so the room is part coffee bar, part shop, part somebody’s front room. Come as a customer, leave as a friend is not a slogan we invented after the fact.
An art café, of sorts
The room is shaped by art, design and taste more than by a fit-out. The shelves carry books and zines we actually read, the walls change, and now and then there is a performance. If you are looking for a cozy café in Amsterdam Zuid to sit with a book or a sketchbook rather than a laptop, this is one.
The coffee and the tea
We rotate single-origin beans by season and keep bags from roasters we rate on the retail shelf, so you can take home whatever you liked in the cup. Alongside the espresso and hand brew there is a loose-leaf tea programme we are quietly proud of: fourteen teas listed by origin, from a Taiwanese Alishan Jin Xuan to an aged 2001 pu-erh. It is all on the menu, alongside the cheesecake people keep writing to us about.
The strippenkaart
Ten coffees on one card for €25. It never expires, and it is yours to share — hand it to a friend and we will punch it for them. The artwork is a straight-faced tribute to the old Dutch nationale strippenkaart, which anyone who rode a bus before 2011 will recognise. Ask for one at the counter.
Come by
Ruysdaelstraat 15HS, 1071 WX Amsterdam. Directions, opening hours and the nearest trams are on the visit page.
