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About
This is a bar with a strong point of view. Set in a historic building where duties were once collected on goods entering the city, Taxman turns that backstory into a compact cocktail room centered on a long communal bar and a house identity that puts the focus on the drinks rather than on brand display. The result feels intimate, deliberate, and a little more original than the usual new opening.
Menu
This list does not claim to be up to date, complete or correct. The drinks and prices on the bar’s own menu are authoritative.
Antique Spirits, Antique Glass, History
Historically, the Netherlands served as a pivotal European trading hub, where antiquities were eagerly imported by wealthy merchants during the Golden Age, often operating under flexible, merchant-friendly customs rules.
Mandarin from Spain, Milky Oolong from Taiwan, Bitter from Italy, Lemon from Italy, Egg White from Netherlands, Neutral Spirit from Poland
To possess a bright orange or a sharp lemon in Golden Ages was to hold a fragrant piece of the world’s luxury, turning these rare fruits into status symbols that glowed within the shadows of every wealthy merchant's still life painting.
Geisha Coffee, Coconut Oil, Cascara, Sugarcane Spirit, Grape Spirit, Neutral Spirit
One Dutch merchant stole the coffee seed, shattering the ancient Arabian coffee monopoly. Amsterdam then became the heart where the world's coffee was brewed by the forced harvests of the East Indian sun on the new coffee plantations of Java Island.
Tomato from Netherlands, high flavor, Green apple from Netherlands, mild flavor, Passion fruit from Brazil, high flavor, Agave spirits from Mexico, mild flavor, Lemon from Italy, mild flavor, Neutral spirit from Poland, non-flavor
The newly wealthy Republic became the global showcase for exotic fruits as the powerful East India Company brought back precious products, turning them into symbols of immense status for the merchant class who displayed them in opulent still life paintings.
Buckwheat, Raspberry, Lemon, Grain of Paradise, Neutral Spirit
Netherlands is the world's market gate where ships deliver the vital grain that its own farms cannot provide. Therefore, the nation's power lies not in its harvest, but in its steady hand on the scales, directing the flow of food across the European map.
Tomato, Kimchi, MSG, Pepper Sauce, Fermented Sauce, Neutral Spirit
Though the Low Countries possessed no mines, salt became the invisible bedrock of the Republic’s entire prosperity, for it was the vital preserver that allowed the Dutch to transform their herring fleet into a vast, year-round industry that fed the continent.
Banana from Ecuador, Verjuice from France, Agave Spirit from Mexico, Black Pepper from Vietnam, Neutral Spirit from Poland, Sugarcane Spirit from Jamaica
For a long period, sugar was a strong indicator of wealth and high social status in the Netherlands, a country without its own sugarcane fields. This transformed into Europe’s sugary pastry during the Dutch Golden Age by importing raw, labor-produced products from distant tropical holdings.
Osmanthus, Fortified Wine, Juniper Spirit, Neutral Spirit
The Netherlands was the first nation to ship tea to Europe in the early 1600s, importing small amounts from China and Japan. Although first seen as a medicine and a luxury for the wealthy elite, tea gradually became a common daily beverage.
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