Lange Leidsedwaarstraat 43

Rokerij is located just steps from the touristic Leidseplein and has had the same owners for years, but in the summer of 1996 it was completely redesigned, when a team of artists took the owner's rough ideas and went to work. The result was a pan-Asian, heavily Indian environment where you can still get a full range of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks along with some snacks. The music includes salsa, South African, old jazz, Indian and more, as the sound system shuffles randomly through 110 assorted CDs selected by the artists as part of their concept. To add to the feeling of a Katmandu bazaar, the owners contract with tarot-card readers and henna-tattoo artists to come in two nights a week and give their services to patrons. As part of the plan to make the shop into a real smoker's hangout, rather than an alcohol-based scene, the owners decided to reduce mark-up percentages at all their shops and maintain a consistent supply of huigh-quality grass and has "at prices that will build a customer bas of the real smokers." The Rokerij has a consistent, almost constant supply of good moroccan hashish, and you can buy many excellent strains of cannabis, including the past Cannabis Cup winners 'Bubblegum', 'AK-47' and 'White Russian'. Rokerij won third place in the Coffeeshop catagory and a third place for their Rokerij Special imported hashish.