Café In de Smitse closed for three months for refurbishment

Campus café In de Smitse will close for almost three months due to refurbishment. The floor will be renewed, and the counter replaced. Coming Friday is the last party. The café should reopen on 3 February.

In de Smitse has been in the Hatta building on campus Woudestein since 2017. According to a university spokesperson, there have been problems with the floor from the beginning, which is now going to be addressed. As this has to happen layer by layer, it takes a long time.

“Sucks. We agree and we’re NOT looking forward”, the board writes on their Instagram. “Those of you who are sober enough for a critical inspection know that it really does need replacement. While we’re at it, the wooden counter is also replaced, as serving one million beers will get the wood porous at some point.”

During the final party this Friday, the DJ will play music from a different decade every hour. Starting from the sixties, ending at 11pm with contemporary hits. “We will also be putting our range on sale”, explains chairman Roos Weck.

In de Smitse claims to be the largest student-run café in the Netherlands and has been in several locations on campus. The café once started illegally in 1975 in a lecture hall, was later located at the ground floor of the Mandeville building and since 2017 in the Hatta building.