Amsterdam has never seen anything quite so luxuriously cosmopolitan as Jimmy Woo's. You, too, can marvel at the lounge area filled with a mixture of modern and antique...

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...

Former milk factory 'Milky Way' offers a galaxy of stellar programming and a newly rebuilt main hall. Often ridiculously crowded - but great value and down to earth - with a...

Ministry is a small and stylish club with a music policy that tends towards funky and soulful urban sounds. Groove to the latest hip hop, R&B and dancehall tracks on Freaky...

This 'night theatre' has found its niche as a place where performance meets clubbing. Every night brings a show of some kind, be it photos, classical dancers, MCs in various...

This three-storey, 1662-built venue comes complete with restaurant, cocktail bar, café (with great canal-side terrace), disco and cultural activities. It's hot with the...

As an Amsterdam institution, this large ex-church is a safe clubbing bet, with a trusty formula of following on from live shows with a DJ or club night from around 11pm....

Dreadlocks, spiral fluorescent designs, alternative lifestyles and plenty of cannabis. All four Rokerij outfits are central to the city's psychedelic trance and underground...

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...

The Sinners people are youthful, beautiful, well groomed and well funded - some of them are even famous, albeit in a 'big in Hollandwood' sort of way. Think Sex and the City...

In the middle of Rembrandtplein's neon glitz and ice cream-eating crowds lurks this ex-radio studio, a black pearl waiting to be discovered. Dirty disco, deep electronic acid...

Every fourth Sunday in the month, Exit becomes a women-only space. This relaxing and fun afternoon session (from 4-10pm) attracts women of all ages and types who do their thing...

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,...

Refused a 'sex permit' to operate as a pole-dancing club (as if Amsterdam needs another venue for men with gyroscope obsessions), the faux-sleazy Zebra Lounge took the path of...