Lots of coffee at Lot Sixty One Coffee Roasters

Jun 5, 2013 | by Hannah Fuellenkemper | Food

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I'm a food stylist, like pugs and doomcore and will buy a book twice if I like the edition. My favourite thing about Amsterdam is its windows and a certain house on the gracht where people read and plans are hatched by candlelight.

I’ve had my eye on the place for a while and every time I go by there have been different signs of life. Then all of a sudden there was real life and instead of writing a piece on the fact that I had finally spotted some mail in a window I liked the look of and so now knew that the new coffee place on the Kinkerstraat was going to be called Lot Sixty One, I could speak to the owners. They told me to attend the opening. I did, that was Saturday June 1st.

I now knew that the new coffee place on the Kinkerstraat was going to be called Lot Sixty One.

The owners, Adam and Paul, are childhood friends from Australia, have lived all over and chose Amsterdam over Berlin to open their coffee roaster and shop, Lot Sixty One. They wanted to introduce us to the full coffee ‘experience’ be it induced through coffee beans roasted on the premise, a ceramic filter, glass filter, custom-designed espresso machine or through a process of hours and via a meter long Japanese-style cold drip. To add to the experience, there’s space enough in the back to hold workshops and people with ideas are invited to share them.

On opening day, the place was full, the coffee free and excellent. The roaster was on and soon you’ll be able to bring the beans home. The brownies were even better than the chocolate chip cookies and when I watched a girl test the foam on her cappuccino, watching it slowly envelope her spoon, I thought to myself that this is going to be a serious coffee drinker’s coffee place.