This spacious monument to industry just west of the Jordaan pumped water from the coast's dunes for around a century. Now it pumps out honest Dutch and French dishes - from...

A huge convention and exhibition centre by day, the RAI is an enormous theatre by night and at weekends. Musicals, operas, comedy nights, ballets and spectacular shows can all...

Around 20 fully furnished, central apartments are available for lets of one week or more. They're stylish, but suitably pricey to boot.

The biggest and best of all night shops, this is basically a supermarket, albeit a late-opening one, though it must be said that the selection of wine and beer here puts most...

The Amsterdamse Bos visitor centre recounts the history and use of the Amsterdamse Bos. Its mock woodland grotto, which can turn from day to night at the flick of a switch, is...

A dirty old rockers bar where musos, journos and everyone else who refuses to grow up gets smashed in one big, sloppy melée. The soundtrack is the entire back-catalogue of...

Artists such as Karel Appel, Eugene Brands and Corneille were once regarded as little more than eccentric troublemakers; they've now been absorbed into the canon. This museum...

'The Nice Persian' sums it up. Iranian cuisine served up family style and with family grace. Lovely lamb with sabzi greens, plus chicken in walnut and pomegranate sauce. A...

A sub-tropical pool, De Mirandabad is very clean, with a stone beach and a wave machine. It's not ideal for swimming lengths, but its waterslide, whirlpool and outdoor pool...

A new fixture in Amsterdam's subculture, DNA has become a sparkling promoter of fresh talents in the world of independent rock and electronica. It may keep itself to itself,...

Djago's West Javanese eats are praised to the hilt by Indo-obsessives. Set near the RAI convention centre, it's a bit out of the way, but worth the trip south

Housed in a once-squatted school above a gym, the left-of-mainstream Cavia specialises in obscure, queer and/or political pictures. You can also rent it for film parties of...

A small student-run cinema on the campus of the Free University, the Filmhuis Griffioen is a cheap and eminently enjoyable way to check out the films you missed in their first run.

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...