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Groningen, Netherlands
The Hooghoudt family has distilled in Groningen since 1888, producing jenever and herbal bitters and, more recently, aged single malt whisky. Now in its fourth generation, the family distillery makes its spirits in-house.
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Groningen, Netherlands
Founded in 1994 by Alie Berger and Michel de Vries, this antiquarian and secondhand shop on Pelsterstraat carries books from modern to centuries old alongside maps, prints, vinyl records, and photographs. It runs a fortnightly Bookmaker event that puts out around 2,000 secondhand books on alternating Wednesdays.
Best for Centuries-old books, maps, and vinyl at the fortnightly 2,000-book Bookmaker event
Groningen, Netherlands
Black & Bloom roasts specialty coffee in Groningen and pours filter, espresso, and milk drinks at its bar, with beans that have placed in national roasting and brewing competitions. Freshly roasted bags ship through the webshop, with free delivery over fifty euros.
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Black & Bloom was founded by Gerben Engelkes on August 2, 2012, after several years running two locations of a coffee franchise in Groningen starting in 2008. Two SCAE (Speciality Coffee Association of Europe) courses pushed him toward an independent operation with full creative control over sourcing and roasting rather than a franchise format. The shop buys specialty-grade, single-origin coffee bought in season from producers worldwide, with a stated goal of becoming a leading specialty-coffee source within Groningen's coffee culture. Espresso runs through a Synesso machine, and filter coffee is served through Hario, Kalita, and Aeropress methods, giving the bar several ways to show the same beans. Freshly roasted bags of coffee and tea ship nationally through the webshop, with free delivery over fifty euros, and the beans themselves have placed in Dutch national roasting and brewing competitions. The result is a small-city roaster built around one person's move from franchise management to hands-on sourcing and roasting — a bar in Groningen city center where the equipment and the season-driven bean list are as much the point as the espresso and filter drinks themselves.
Groningen, Netherlands
Ceramicist Christina Kingma hand-builds functional stoneware and playful sculptural pieces at her studio on Travertijnstraat, from tapas dishes to hand-painted tableware. The studio also runs hand-building workshops and offers a firing service for outside work.
Best for Hand-built stoneware tapas dishes and hand-painted tableware
Groningen, Netherlands
Marne has milled Groninger mustard since 1895, when it began as a local employment project, and still makes the region's coarse, sharp mustard along with Dijon, honey, and whole-grain varieties. The company works from Van der Hoopstraat in Groningen and sells its jars through a webshop.
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Groningen, Netherlands
This English-language bookshop at Oude Kijk in 't Jatstraat 10 carries fiction, poetry, social sciences, nature, history, design, and cookbooks alongside picture books, postcards, and posters. It is the English-language counterpart of the Dutch bookseller Godert Walter and hosts events in a room at the back.
Best for English-language books
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