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Category: Live Entertainment - Amsterdam Nightlife
Address: Lijnbaansgracht 234a, Amsterdam 1017 PH
It's no coincidence that Melkweg's name, translated, is the tongue-in-cheek 'Milky Way,' given that the complex once operated as a dairy. The revamped center-city attraction is now an entertainment and nightlife magnet, offering patrons everything from dancing and live music to theater performances and film...
Category: Live Music - Amsterdam Nightlife
Address: Piet Heinkade 1, Amsterdam 1019 BR
The stunning glass-walled creation of architects Nielsen, Nielsen & Nielsen, opened in 2005 on the edge of the gentrified Eastern Docklands area. As well as a regular programme of contemporary, chamber, non-western, orchestral and early music, it boasts a state-of-the-art sound system which composers and musicians can...
Category: Best Nightlife - Amsterdam Nightlife
Address: Polonceaukade 23, Amsterdam 1014 DA
One of the city's best kept nightlife secrets, this enormous café restaurant on the grounds of the former gasworks, Westergasfabriek, clears away its tables and chairs after dinner on Friday and Saturday and turns into a club. (Kitchen closes at 10pm.) Regularly drawing a 350-strong, 20- to 30- something crowd, it's...
Category: Brown Cafés - Amsterdam Nightlife
Address: Elandsstraat 119, Amsterdam 1016 RX
Amsterdam's infamous women's bar - a traditional split-level brown bar - opened in the quiet Jordaan district in 1978, but these days enjoys an incarnation as a mixed gay bar, although it still attracts a predominantly lesbian clientele. Popular with both young and older women during the week, it gets especially...
Category: Dance Clubs - Amsterdam Nightlife
Address: Lijnbaansgracht 238, Amsterdam 1017 PH
This centrally-located club (opposite the Melkweg) has the most inspired and eclectic programming of any of the city's nightspots. Early evening art exhibitions, fashion shows, big band acts, performance art and cutting-edge multimedia events make way for similarly diverse parties later on. Themes could be anything...
Category: Bars - Amsterdam Nightlife
Address: Ferdinand Bolstraat 333, Hotel Okura, Amsterdam 1072 LH
If you can't afford to dine at the Michelin-awarded Ciel Bleu next door, then this upscale lounge bar is a fabulous alternative. Sharing its lofty perch with the restaurant, it's also high up on the twenty-third floor of the Hotel Okura, offering an incomparable view of the city, especially at twilight or at night,...
Category: Bars - Amsterdam Nightlife
Address: Weteringschans 157, Amsterdam 1017 SE
Proving size isn't everything, this soi-disant 'club' is Amsterdam's premier DJ bar which delivers a cutting-edge programme of both established and nascent spinners 364 days a year - complemented by a great sound system! Big names who have played here include the homegrown Junkie XL (renowned for his remix of Elvis's...
Category: Bars - Amsterdam Nightlife
Address: Amstel 194-196 1017 AG
Located in a fin-de-siecle building on the River Amstel opposite city hall and the opera house, this is Amsterdam's first - and only - ice bar. At the front is the scarlet red ' Some Like It Hot' lounge bar where cocktails are whipped up by world-class makers and shakers. At the rear (with an entrance fee of €19.50)...
