SoHo runs an English pub-style room over two floors on Reguliersdwarsstraat with leather banquettes, bookshelves and one of the larger bar-tops on the strip, flipping into a busy gay club once DJs take over after midnight.
Tip: Open every night; queue moves fastest before 23:00 on Fri-Sat. The smaller upstairs floor is quieter for conversation early in the evening.
Address: Reguliersdwarsstraat 36, 1017 BM Amsterdam
Taboo runs a two-floor video bar on the gay strip of Reguliersdwarsstraat with classic and current music videos on the screens, a mixed crowd of locals and visitors, and one of the longer continuously running rooms on the street.
Tip: Happy hour through the early evening, prices climb after 23:00. Upstairs has the better view of the screens, downstairs is the dance floor.
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.
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.
Taboo runs a two-floor video bar on the gay strip of Reguliersdwarsstraat with classic and current music videos on the screens, a mixed crowd of locals and visitors, and one of the longer continuously running rooms on the street.
Tip: Happy hour through the early evening, prices climb after 23:00. Upstairs has the better view of the screens, downstairs is the dance floor.
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.
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.