Prik opened on Spuistraat in 2006 as a queer cocktail bar with prosecco on tap and has been named best gay venue in Amsterdam by Time Out among other awards, drawing a mixed crowd onto its small front terrace in summer.
Tip: Terrace fills fast on warm afternoons; the indoor room runs later than the street suggests. Cash card only, no reservations.
Address: Spuistraat 109, 1012 SV Amsterdam
Club Church operates a queer cruise club on Kerkstraat south of Leidsestraat with a bar, dance floor, dark rooms and themed fetish nights such as underwear, naked, leather and sports, drawing the cruise crowd across the LGBTQ+ spectrum.
Tip: Themed nights enforce dress codes at the door; free cloakroom, lockers and showers on site. Check the website calendar for the night's theme.
Eagle Amsterdam has anchored the leather and denim end of Warmoesstraat since 1979, with three floors that hold a ground-floor bar, a second-floor cruising area and a basement darkroom, plus live DJs on weekends.
Tip: Dress leans leather, denim and sportswear; the cruising floors get busier after 01:00. Awarded Best Gay Fetish Club in Europe at the 2025 X-Awards.
Club NYX runs a multi-floor queer dance club on Reguliersdwarsstraat, the rebooted successor to the long-running Club Exit, with each floor tuned to a different sound from pop anthems to underground house and techno.
Tip: Door tightens after 01:00 on weekends; the top floor leans pop, the basement leans harder house. Coat check on the way in.
Cafe 't Mandje opened on Zeedijk in 1927 under lesbian publican Bet van Beeren and stands as the longest-running LGBTQ+ cafe in the Netherlands, reopened in 2008 with the original interior restored and now run by out lesbian operators.
Tip: Tiny room, two-deep at the bar on weekends. The walls and ceiling still carry Bet's collected ties cut off male customers as a souvenir.
CUE runs across two floors on Utrechtsestraat, with a Michelin-starred restaurant upstairs and a vinyl-driven listening bar below, built around a tuned sound system, an extensive record collection and a tight cocktail list.
Tip: Walk-in welcome at the downstairs bar, restaurant upstairs needs booking. Vinyl programme runs Wednesday through Saturday evenings.
Club Church operates a queer cruise club on Kerkstraat south of Leidsestraat with a bar, dance floor, dark rooms and themed fetish nights such as underwear, naked, leather and sports, drawing the cruise crowd across the LGBTQ+ spectrum.
Tip: Themed nights enforce dress codes at the door; free cloakroom, lockers and showers on site. Check the website calendar for the night's theme.
Eagle Amsterdam has anchored the leather and denim end of Warmoesstraat since 1979, with three floors that hold a ground-floor bar, a second-floor cruising area and a basement darkroom, plus live DJs on weekends.
Tip: Dress leans leather, denim and sportswear; the cruising floors get busier after 01:00. Awarded Best Gay Fetish Club in Europe at the 2025 X-Awards.
Club NYX runs a multi-floor queer dance club on Reguliersdwarsstraat, the rebooted successor to the long-running Club Exit, with each floor tuned to a different sound from pop anthems to underground house and techno.
Tip: Door tightens after 01:00 on weekends; the top floor leans pop, the basement leans harder house. Coat check on the way in.
Cafe 't Mandje opened on Zeedijk in 1927 under lesbian publican Bet van Beeren and stands as the longest-running LGBTQ+ cafe in the Netherlands, reopened in 2008 with the original interior restored and now run by out lesbian operators.
Tip: Tiny room, two-deep at the bar on weekends. The walls and ceiling still carry Bet's collected ties cut off male customers as a souvenir.
murmur runs a custom four-point sound system out of a stripped-back room on Aambeeldstraat in Noord, programming six-hour vinyl trips on Friday and Saturday nights and a small natural-wine and bites list alongside.
Tip: Conversation is kept low, the room turns toward the speakers. Ferry from Centraal to NDSM or Buiksloterweg then a short cycle east.
CUE runs across two floors on Utrechtsestraat, with a Michelin-starred restaurant upstairs and a vinyl-driven listening bar below, built around a tuned sound system, an extensive record collection and a tight cocktail list.
Tip: Walk-in welcome at the downstairs bar, restaurant upstairs needs booking. Vinyl programme runs Wednesday through Saturday evenings.