{"id":78703,"date":"2017-06-30T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T07:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=78703"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:22:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:22:49","slug":"speak-about-this-bar-and-flirt-in-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2017\/06\/30\/speak-about-this-bar-and-flirt-in-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t speak about this bar – and don’t flirt in it"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The bar is hidden away in the Scheepsvaartkwartier. And without instructions, you wouldn\u2019t find it. What\u2019s more: without stories from friends, you probably wouldn\u2019t even know of its existence. Those who have been help to uphold the \u2018myth\u2019. Everyone realises that this is too good to advertise.<\/p>\n

Which is why the bar has been open since 2012 and still keeps its secrets. Take the two 20 somethings standing in front of the big green door on Thursday evening \u2013 only a small Rod of Asclepius providing a hint. It\u2019s dark and the blond girl is wide eyed. She wants to tell, but thinks: \u201cThe house rules don\u2019t allow it.\u201d She stops talking abruptly.<\/p>\n

No phones<\/h3>

A man in a lab coat opens the door. It\u2019s dark inside. Candles and a \u2018medical whiff\u2019 give the room atmosphere. The man \u2013 bartender Alberto \u2013 points to the house rules. No phones, no photos \u2013 except for 1.50 euros using the bar\u2019s polaroid \u2013 and no smooching.<\/p>\n

What follows would be a shame to divulge.<\/p>\n

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The only allowed photo of the interior was a polaroid.<\/span><\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure>

What we can say is: it\u2019s brilliant inside. The doctor\u2019s theme is elaborated in detail. Cocktails are called medicines, the bartender refers to himself as doctor. You are only admitted with your patient number. That\u2019s mailed to you after an online booking.<\/p>\n

Get there soon<\/h3>
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In that sense, Dr. is already much more accessible. In the early years, this website didn\u2019t exist and guests could only book on a secret phone number. More like the kind of secret bar that provided the inspiration and which was particularly popular during the American prohibition last century.<\/p>\n

So get yourself along to the \u2018doctor\u2019 soon. With your girl, with your parents \u2013 there was a family at the bar \u2013 or with your boyfriend from afar. Before the masses find it. Which won\u2019t be good for the bar.<\/p>\n\n\t

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