Café De Republiek
Leiden, Netherlands
The read// why locals go
Café De Republiek has been at the centre of Leiden student life on the Breestraat since 1983. The formula is cheap daily lunch, a serious selection of local beer, and a terrace that becomes the social centre of the city the moment the evening is warm enough. Plates run about €12 and have never crept upward the way student-city prices usually do. The kitchen stays open late, which matters here more than any menu detail. Four decades on it is doing the same job for a new set of students each year — the room in Leiden that reliably has someone in it worth talking to.
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Breestraat 57, 2311 CJ — Leiden
The read// why locals go
Café De Republiek has been at the centre of Leiden student life on the Breestraat since 1983. The formula is cheap daily lunch, a serious selection of local beer, and a terrace that becomes the social centre of the city the moment the evening is warm enough. Plates run about €12 and have never crept upward the way student-city prices usually do. The kitchen stays open late, which matters here more than any menu detail. Four decades on it is doing the same job for a new set of students each year — the room in Leiden that reliably has someone in it worth talking to.
