Eerste van der Helststraat 70

So here is a shop with no Website, no phone number and no advertising beyond word of mouth, which also specializes in the mostly sativa Haze strains- the ones that take 50% longer to mature and typically yield 30% less- can you say "non-commercial?" Located just off the Albert Cuyp market, Katsu has served coffee and sodas to locals and tourists in the know for 11 years. As they say, "We concentrate on the hash and the coffee. No time wasted on fruit smoothies here." The owners were some of the first Nederlanders to get a taste for the Haze when it came here from California in the mid-1980s. "We just loved the taste- so sweet and complete. Other people found the odor too much, but we kept smoking it and soon others began to join us. What we smoke, our customers smoke. This is a shop where the customer comes first." Harry, John and Appie have 50 years collective experience in the coffeeshop biz. They have a core staff that is almost unchanged in the last six years, with some who have been here since the start. This family atmosphere is all over the shop- many single women come here because they know that the house doesn't tolerate anyone giving them unwanted attention. One of the neighbors comes almost daily- he's 86 and doesn't smoke cannabis, but his grandkids hang here. The shop is comfy, homey, clean, but not so perfect you are afraid to relax. The toilets were just redone to add a women's room and the door is locked- "We just can't get the men to keep it as clean as the women like, so we gave the ladies their own room."
No discounts, no promotions- just great grass.