The wonderful and deeply filling world of Dutch broodjes (sandwiches) has its greatest champion in this takeaway, one of very few that still features proper homemade meat...

Small and often smoky, the widely renowned Alto is one of the city's older and better jazz venues. Renowned Dutch saxophonist Hans Dulfer (Candy's dad) has a long-running slot...

This festival brings some of the best world music acts to Amsterdam every year.

Neon tat to one side, trendy Wendys to the other; Eijlders is a cerebral alternative to both. A meeting place for the resistance during the war, it now has a boho feel, with...

A glass cabinet of trophies and trinkets and a jukebox give this bar an easygoing 1950s feel. It's an Amsterdam classic, by night full of bar-room philosophers and locals mixed...

Conscious Dreams was the original proponent of the smart drugs wave in Amsterdam. The staff here really know their stuff - the owner worked as a drugs adviser for five years -...

Local young fashion designer and Project Catwalk judge Daryl van Wouw - an expert in how to apply street trends to the catwalks - finally has his own boutique. It may be small...

Souvenirs with provenance. Delftshop are the official dealers of Royal Delft and Makkum pottery, the bread and butter of the Dutch antique trade. The stock here includes...

This excellent photography museum, located in a renovated canal house, holds regular exhibitions of works by shutter-button maestros like August Sander as well as advertising...

A very stylish, gay-friendly place designed by Atelier Hertogh. The Red Room is sexily scarlet and comes with a huge shower, big enough for an entire football team. The Blue...

Named after the only chess world champion the Netherlands has produced and occupying the city's old House of Detention - it held Resistance leaders in World War II - the Max...

This bleeding-edge organisation dedicated to the outer reaches of technology and multimedia is now housed in the happening Post CS and has an exhibition space on the ground...

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 place achieves much by not trying too hard. What you get is an uncomplicated venue for an evening's carousing among a mixed bunch of trendies, locals and the odd visitor....