ITA Brasserie

Southern Canal Ring


Hung with chandeliers, this curved and columned space looks like a wedding cake. The brasserie brims with actors and chattering culture hounds deconstructing the avant-garde play they just watched in the attached Internationaal Theater Amsterdam.


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