Coffeeshop The Jolly Joker

The Jolly Joker is a small coffeeshop on the Nieuwmarkt square, on the edge of the Red Light District. Its website gives hours of 10:00 to 01:00, seven days a week, and also sells merchandise through a webshop and rents an apartment. Google shows the same hours.

Reviewers describe a cosy shop with a smoking area on the first floor, walls covered in notes and art left by visitors, and a view over the square from the windows. Staff are generally called kind and helpful to beginners, cards are accepted, and several people received free rolling papers or small gifts. A solo female traveller and another woman both say they felt safe here.

• Tobacco: fewer than half of the prerolls were available without tobacco on one reviewer's visit.
• Location note: the Nieuwmarkt is one of Amsterdam's public no-smoking zones for cannabis, so smoke inside.
• Rules: 18+ with ID, 5-gram maximum, tourists served.

It has 4.4 stars from 1,831 Google reviews (September 2026). Negative comments are about people outside being rowdy and a staff member who shouted at a customer arriving with a beer can. Most recent reviews praise value for money and quantity.