Café Cox lives a third life as The Pop-Up Wine Bar until December 23.
From the shopping ‘box of chocolates’ known as the One Day Shop (where you never know what you’re going to get) to the transient art collective called the Pop-Up Gallery, Amsterdam is deep into a temporary-trading trend. The latest ventures to exploit the city’s recession-generated open commercial spaces for a bit of low-risk, brand-boosting money making are online boutique Zoe and Lola and The Pop-Up Wine Bar. But you better act fast if you want to catch these one-month wonders: both will be closed by Christmas.
Just in time for the darkest Northern nights, new(ish) webshop Zoe and Lola downloads its slice of Scandinavian(-influenced) fashion to the offline world of Amsterdam’s swanky Oud Zuid neighborhood. Visit the shop at Cornelis Schuytstraat 44 by December 24 for high-end, sexy-chic staples in dark and neutral colors from the likes of House of Dagmar, HOPE, and Designers Remix. For the well-heeled (prices start around €200), it’s a mini Stockholm shopping getaway sans airfare.
Oenophiles also have reason for some extra holiday cheer this year (at least until December 23) thanks to this month’s Pop-Up Wine Bar. Located in the former home of Café Cox at Marnixstraat 429, patrons of last year’s pop-up bar DEP will be familiar with the location’s shabbily swanky take on a luxury apartment interior. What’s new is the list of 41 wines, each available by the bottle, glass, half glass, and even sip. With prices starting at €1 for a sip of Castel Chardonnay from the French Pays D’Oc, Amsterdam’s fulltime wine bars Bubbles & Wines and Vyne must be breathing a sigh of relief that this place isn’t sticking around. Especially since this wine wonder’s also got the high end covered, topping out with a 1992 Château Pétrus (Bordeaux’s most famous) available for €55 a sip. Yes, a sip. You don’t want to know what the bottle costs.
(Okay, it’s €1,500.)
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