Amsterdam
Speciality roasters White Label Coffee likes its customers to feel at home. Among the Persian rugs, comfy floor cushions, light wooden furniture and…
Must-see nightlife in Amsterdam
Medieval Centre & Red Light District
BeerTemple’s taps, with 35 rotating draught beers, feature mainly American varieties that you’ll be hard-pushed to find elsewhere in the Dutch capital, as…
Amsterdam
Café Bédier is a post-work favourite with a terrace out the front that is often so crowded on a summer evening that it looks like a street party in full…
Amsterdam
From your morning caffeine fix to an evening tipple, hip cafe-bar 4850 has you covered. It turns out a great coffee along with an impressive selection of…
De Pijp
Natural, all-organic, additive-free wines are the stock-in-trade of this convivial neighbourhood wine bar in a rustic stained-glass-framed shop, where the…
Amsterdam
Close to the Vondelpark, Café Schinkelhaven's hugely popular candle-topped terrace tables make an irresistible pit stop before heading along…
Amsterdam
This perennially hip, two-level bar attracts a young professional crowd that spills out onto the pavement. It does great cocktails and doubles as a Thai…
Medieval Centre & Red Light District
Its location by the IJ at the northern end of Centraal Station makes this beer specialist ideal while waiting for a train or to pick up bottles to drink…
Amsterdam Noord
In an out-of-the-way industrial area, tiny Walhalla is a relaxed microbrewery that has quickly gained a reputation for its excellent beer. There are a few…
Medieval Centre & Red Light District
Inside the landmark 15th-century Schreierstoren, this atmospheric café (pub) has a historical interior with hefty timber beams and a canal-side terrace…
Medieval Centre & Red Light District
Plastered with posters and vinyl records, the subterranean Poolbar is an easy-going place to shoot pool at its eight tables, or play table shuffleboard or…
Amsterdam
On rapidly gentrifying Javastraat, Walter Woodbury’s Javanese-inspired, plant-filled and wooden interior has chesterfield lounges perfect for cosying into…
Amsterdam
Craft beer fans are spoilt for choice, with no fewer than 40 beers from around the world on rotating taps and hundreds more by the bottle. Try one of the…
Medieval Centre & Red Light District
Tucked down an alleyway off Grimburgwal, this site has assumed many guises throughout the centuries: a cloister during the 14th, a horse-carriage…
Medieval Centre & Red Light District
A hummingbird by Brazilian street artist L7matrix covers one wall of this hip cafe, with local art also for sale. Small-batch roasts (London's Kiss the…
Amsterdam
Art deco lights, floral wallpaper, chesterfields and waistcoated mixologists-as-alchemists behind the bar set the scene at the sophisticated yet cosy HPS …
De Pijp
Reducing food waste was the inspiration behind Jacob's Juice. Its owners collect imperfect fruit and vegetables each day from the Albert Cuypmarkt that…
Amsterdam
Away from Nieuwmarkt's main cluster of coffeeshops, Bluebird does attract tourists but it has a more local vibe. The multiroom space has murals and local…
Amsterdam
A small but exceedingly sleek bar inside the stunning Conservatorium Hotel, Tunes has a long transparent bar and wow-factor flower displays. Admire them…
Amsterdam
A colourful mix of locals and tourists throng the tables to sip drinks – including beers by local breweries Oedipus and 2 Chefs – at this venerable cafe…
Medieval Centre & Red Light District
It's a simple concept: craft beers plus arcade games in a neon-bathed room in the Red Light District. You can play retro games such as pinball (machines…
Amsterdam Noord
Sharing a co-working start-up space called A-Lab with the University of Arts, this cool cafe made from mostly recycled materials is a convenient coffee…
De Pijp
Opening to one of the liveliest terraces on plane-tree-shaded square Van der Helstplein, Café Ruis has a lounge-room-like interior with mismatched…
Medieval Centre & Red Light District
Amsterdam's oldest gay bar opened in 1927, then shut in 1982 when the Zeedijk grew too seedy. But its trinket-covered interior was lovingly dusted every…
Amsterdam
This stylish cafe-bar is not exactly the kind of dive Bukowski might have favoured, but it's a fine spot paying homage to the writer and the perfect place…
Medieval Centre & Red Light District
Even non-clubbers will love Winston Kingdom for its indie-alternative music beats, great DJs and live bands. No matter what's on – from 'dubstep mayhem'…
Medieval Centre & Red Light District
Dating from 1881, with soaring art-nouveau ceilings, this distinguished café (pub) in Centraal Station (upstairs by platform 2b) used to be the waiting…
Amsterdam
A jovial canal-side watering hole, ‘The Grape’ is one of Amsterdam’s oldest pubs and was once a distillery, evident in its gas chandeliers, carpet-lined…
Amsterdam
This rambling Swiss-chalet-style timber house has a gingerbread look about it, at the edge of the Vondelpark forest. It's actually a regular cafe with…
Amsterdam
Located in the former Vondelpark pavilion at the northeastern end of the park, this stylish and comfortable cafe has a large terrace overlooking the pond …
Amsterdam
In-the-know hop heads like to go straight to the source of cult brewers Butcher's Tears. The brewery's all-white clinical-feeling taproom is tucked at the…
De Pijp
Boca's (inspired by the Italian word for 'mouth') is the ultimate spot for borrel (drinks). Mezzanine seating overlooks the cushion-strewn interior, but…
Proeflokaal 't Blauwe Theehuis
Amsterdam
No, it's not a blue and white UFO cake stand landed in the park, this is the Vondelpark outpost of local brewery heroes Brouwerij ’t IJ. Opened in late…
Amsterdam
Tucked away behind the Concertgebouw (Concert Hall), this wood-panelled well-worn lovely is a relaxed spot to sip a frothy, cold biertje (glass of beer)…
Medieval Centre & Red Light District
A roode laars (red boot) on the facade above the stained-glass windows of this lamp-lit little brown cafe remains from its earlier incarnation as a…
Medieval Centre & Red Light District
Don't let the word 'cafe' in the name fool you – this is a hard-core (but very friendly) punk bar (Amsterdam's last remaining one) where the beer's cheap,…
Medieval Centre & Red Light District
Once run by legendary drag queen Dusty, this beautifully decorated, old-world-style café (pub) has toned down a bit and the crowd is now mixed, with gay…
Amsterdam
Join creative types with laptops, locals having business chats and tourists looking to recharge their batteries at this small, hip cafe decked out in…
Amsterdam
On Het Sieraard’s waterfront, Edel has lots of waterside seating as it's at the sweet spot where two canals cross. Inside and out it's filled with…
Medieval Centre & Red Light District
This long restaurant-bar is loved for its open, welcoming attitude, great people-watching from the front, and rear lounge where you can chill. It's a…
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