'No perfume' it says at the door. Argos, the most venerable and most famous leather bar in town, likes men to smell like men. Friendly staff, porn on a big screen, and hot...

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...

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 some top names and a...

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...

One of the most interesting venues in Amsterdam, Wilhelmina is often overlooked by casual clubbers. Is it the club's IJ-oriented location? The absence of bouncers? Or bottles...

The big sign of this men-only club gets photographed daily. Inside, on the small dancefloor, shirtless muscle marys throb to the hard house from female (!) DJ Debra. It's...

It's a club Jim, but not as we know it: it says on the door you'll need valid student ID to get in. DJs spin cheerful chart tunes and drink prices are pleasantly affordable....

With a capacity of 2,000, this is about as big as clubbing gets in central Amsterdam - and in 2007 it will continue to expand with three new areas. Ever since club night...

Multi-levelled club with each floor dedicated to a different musical genre; choices when we visited included pop, R&B and bouncy house. There's also a popular darkroom. Women...

Barely opened and already packed - it's unavoidable in a city that craves new impulses. Especially when electro music's own Eva Maria, house legend Wannabeastar and...

Another multi-purpose venue, these beautiful buildings were once an orphanage, before changing into a youth hostel. From there, it was only a short step to becoming a trendy...

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...

Some venues pay designers pot-loads of money to try and buy their way to the seediness that the Kingdom manages without even trying. Weekly clubnight XL has cheesy DJs in all...