Occupying a prime spot on a side-canal of the Amstel, this bar's cavernous insides are filled with yuppies chowing down posh Dutch food and grooving to...
Mauritskade 1
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...
Spuistraat 2
This beach place is great even when the weather sucks (thanks to the open fire, perhaps). It's not a club as such, more a restaurant/bar, but it does pull...
Bert Haanstrakade 2004
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...
Ferdinand Bolstraat 17-19Art 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...
Marnixstraat 401This 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...
Singel 2Pre-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...
Frans Halstraat 42
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...
Vijzelstraat 103A 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...
Weteringschans 157