The Amsterdam Bar makes the Thrillist's list of best bars!

The Amsterdam Bar was one of fifteen bars selected by the editors of the Thrillist as among the best bars in the United States:

The Amsterdam Bar
Dallas, TX

Here in New York, my favorite bar is Whiskey Tavern (if you’ve ever had Rob Magill make you a penis-shaped Twinkie cake on your birthday you know why), but in the whole wide world it’s The Amsterdam Bar in my hometown. Every kind of person that Dallas haters say you’ll never meet in Dallas, I did meet, either there, or at the dearly departed XPO down the street. An art dealer who was a child prodigy corresponded with Norman Rockwell. An obscene French director who loved Southern Comfort. A behemoth punk singer, who, in 1991, punched Kurt Cobain in the face after Cobain smashed a guitar over his tattooed head. I day-drank next to him once when the bar was otherwise empty. For 30 minutes he said nothing, then without turning his head, he asked if I knew what it was like to take a s*** in a cotton field. I’m still searching for an appropriate response.

Oh, and, hi Mike. -- David Blend, executive editor, Special Content

Best bar ever.

The Amsterdam Bar chosen as one of the best beer bars in America by Draft magazine

We were really excited to be chosen for this honor by Draft magazine. Here's how they described us:

Not your average yuppie-filled pub, the Amsterdam is a low-key, TV-free zone where you can concentrate on the drinking menu full of beers (try the Live Oak Hefe Weizen brewed in Austin). Kick it inside the airy, high ceilinged bar, or out on the patio during that nice Texas weather--just watch out for beer-juggling bartenders.

That sums us up pretty nicely, I think.

After we were selected, NBC 5 was nice enough to stop by and interview Mike Scheel, one of our owners, about the award.



Finally, we'd like to send a shout out to the two other Dallas bars selected for the list of best beer bars: The Libertine Bar and The Old Monk--we're sure they are just as excited as we are.