Advocatuur opens in Rosewood Amsterdam
The newly opened Rosewood Amsterdam hotel has unveiled its bar, Advocatuur, which has an in-house jenever distillery.
The hotel’s director of bars and beverage, Yann Bouvignies, heads up the drinks programme. Bouvignies left his post as head of mixology at Scarfes Bar in Rosewood London last year to oversee Advocatuur’s opening.
Design firm Sagrada has thought up the bar’s interior. It pays homage to the building’s heritage as Amsterdam’s former palace of justice, with the name Advocatuur translating to ‘legal profession’.
The space has been fitted with bespoke rugs and ‘eclectic’ furnishings. On the walls hang photos of iconic musicians by Amsterdam-based photographer and director Anton Corbijn.
The bar, equipped with its own entrance by the city’s canals, is divided into three rooms, including a live performance room and a ‘speakeasy-style’ distillery room.
The distillery room is where the bar will make its jenever, PrØvo. Kyoto Distillery’s master distiller Alex Davies will apply three ‘distinct’ distillation methods to the spirit, blending botanicals of ginger, tulsi, fresh pink grapefruit, dry lemon, bitter and sweet orange, rose and milk oolong tea.
The cocktails
The debut cocktail menu, ‘The Will of The People’, features 15 signature serves.
These include the Kopstuck, part of the bar’s ‘baby serves’ selection. The ‘unique twist’ on the traditional Dutch drink Kopstoot features a quail egg garnish, which is seasoned with PrØvo botanical-infused salt. This is served alongside the bar’s house beer, Justitia POJ Lager x Jopen.
Other ‘baby serves’ include takes on the Pornstar Martini, Alexander and Martinez cocktails. These can be enjoyed solo or as a flight.
Elsewhere, the titular Will of the People cocktail is made with Michter’s Bourbon, St-Germain, palo santo and Super Cool CO₂. The Candy Store blends Roku Gin with amàrico, coco and elderflower cream, and peach and jasmine soda.
Guests will also find two non-alcoholic cocktails on the menu.
Bouvignies said: “Honouring storied heritage and the practice of law, Advocatuur challenges the status quo by blending formalities with the spirit of rebellion, giving people a new reason to enter the former Palace of Justice.
“We want Advocatuur to be the embodiment of cocktail culture, enable our guests to savour exquisite mixology, and provoke their tastebuds with our in-house distilled jenever.”
The food is described as ‘Indian flavours with Dutch influences’, with small plates coming from the venue’s two tandoor ovens.
The bar’s soundtrack flicks between electro-soul, future funk, vintage hip-hop, jazz-hop and neo-soul, ‘creating a dynamic immersive soundscape of classic grooves’. A programme of live music will lead the live performance room.
Advocatuur is open from 5pm to 1am from Tuesday to Saturday.
For more openings, check out our roundup of the best bars to come from last winter.
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