Your ultimate guide to Amsterdam
Restaurants and bars, art and museums, clubs and live music, shops and more...
- 20 things to do in Amsterdam
- The best places to eat in town
- The top 30 bars and pubs
- Clubs, cabaret and music venues
- Guide to the Red Light District
20 things to do in Amsterdam
Go beyond the red lights, the weed and the Dutch masters – and discover the real Amsterdam…The best places to eat in town
Amsterdam’s Michelin-starred restaurants meet cosy cafés in a city of culinary surprises…The top 30 bars and pubs
From grand cafés to hole-in-the-wall proeverijen, discover the best places to drink in townClubs, cabaret and music venues
Find out how Europe’s legendary hedonistic capital likes to party…Guide to the Red Light District
Explore and be safe, with our guide to Europe’s favourite vice playground
Places to eat and drink • Critics’ choice
Places to see art and culture • Critics’ choice
Clubbing • Critics’ choice
Jimmy Woo's
- Critics choice
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 furniture and then confirm for yourself the merits of its bootylicious light design and sound system.
- Korte Leidsedwarsstraat 18
Air
- Critics choice
Like a phoenix from the ashes, a new large club has risen in the same location as now-defunct Club It. Musically, the offerings are varied. Thursdays have tended to be creative, arty, interactive nights where house prevails, whereas Fridays have a more techno feel. On
- Amstelstraat 16
Melkweg
- Critics choice
A former dairy (the name translates as 'Milky Way'), the Melkweg acts as a home away from home for music of all styles, and thus draws a suitably eclectic crowd. Its two decent-sized concert halls offer a full programme year-round; after a refit in 2007, which brought
- Lijnbaansgracht 234a
Bars and pubs • Critics’ choice
Hiding in Plain Sight
- Rated as: 4/5
- Critics choice
On a corner in the north-eastern outskirts of the Jodenbuurt, cocktail gem HPS lives up to its name. Upon entry, the small ground-level bar and cramped seating area don’t seem to offer much more than the staff’s smiles. Up a flight of steps, however, a luxuriantly
- Rapenburg 18
't Arendsnest
- Critics choice
A temple to the humble hop, the 'Eagle's Nest', in a lovely canal house, sells only Dutch beer. Many of the customers are real-ale types, but even amateurs will enjoy the 350 standard brews and 250 seasonal, from cheeky house ale Herengracht 90 to Texelse Skuumkoppe.
- Herengracht 90
