This busy, comfy and casual bar triples as a venue for theatre and music. Both bands and DJs tend to embrace the jazzy, world and urban side of sound, as demonstrated by...

Popular with the neighbourhood's more affluent young people, there's a mod-retro feel here - lacquered walls, 1970s lamps, school chairs - and weekends are livened up with DJs...

Art students and the terminally hip gather at this red-lacquered temple to pleasure, where there is no food or frippery, just booze and DJ-spun music with a party mood. Nearby...

This rather sophisticated bar near Centraal Station is a great way of beating train delay blues. There's free Wi-Fi, round-the-clock food from breakfast to tapas to dinner, and...

Pre-war-style furnishings and booths add up to a Brief Encounter aesthetic, and the charming service makes you feel special in an old-fashioned way - though hair is let down on...

Women-friendly during the week, Sappho turns totally lez on Friday nights, as a couple of hundred gay girlies and their friends of every gender and sexuality cram in to dance...

A mecca for serious clubbers, there is someone behind the decks here seven days a week. One day it could be the next big thing, another the flavour of the month. Dave Clark,...