In Amsterdam

4 places in Amsterdam, grouped by what you'd actually go there for.

4 places · 4 checked in the last 90 days · newest 1 day ago

Nightlife & Sound 3

Amsterdam's oldest surviving gay bar, run by the same family since 1927.

I look for the layer under a room — the version of the place that was here before the version you're standing in. At 't Mandje, on the Zeedijk, you…

€3 gets you into a volunteer-run queer basement that's funded LGBTQIA+ causes since 1985.

Here's the door: no sign, no queue rope, no bouncer in a branded jacket checking a guest list on an iPad. Just a stairwell down into a basement on…

A Spuistraat record shop turned label exporting Amsterdam house and techno since 1997.

Get the address right first, because half the internet doesn't: Rush Hour is at Spuistraat 110, not 116. It moved there over the weekend of 21 March…

A former naval dock behind Centraal became Centrum's first legal swim spot, April 2025.

I've spent years telling people not to jump in Amsterdam's canals, and I'm not taking it back. But as of April 2025, there's finally one specific…