When visiting Amsterdam, try the Supper Club, a great, chilled out place that includes a five-course surprise menu, which is fab. The music is great and is suitable for all ages. The meal finishes at about midnight, and then there is a nightclub to which you get free entry if you have the energy.

www.supperclub.com/

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Every weekend hip Amsterdammers descend on the beach 20 minutes outside the city. By day the area is a sea of gorgeous looking bikinied bodies and surfer dudes lounging on over-sized cushions and hammocks, by night there is dancing in the sand at one of the Ibiza style-clubs. It's a glamorous hippy vibe with yoga classes held in between DJ stints.

Trains to Bloemendaal leave from Amsterdam Centraal Station every half-hour. It's a short taxi ride from the station to the beach.

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A hidden restaurant/club/live floor show all in one. You are served a five course meal over a whole evening, while reclining on what can only be described as giant beds on two levels.

On the main floor there is a DJ and now and again one of the staff will get up and sing live often to music the DJ is playing. The entire place is white and has light and laser shows projected on to it. The toilets are an experience in themselves as they are labelled hetero and homo and have one way glass in them, but not the way you might anticipate. This may make it sound more depraved than it really is, my wife and I had a superb night there and would gladly go back next time we visit.

The food is very good and served on a strange ad hoc basis by even stranger people. One of the best nights I have ever had.

Jonge Roelensteeg 21, Amsterdam, it’s down a small alley, it’s easy to miss, so ask a local if you can; tel: +31 20 344 64 00; booking is recommended, this can be done at www.supperclub.nl/open/eng_index.html

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This is the best live music venue in Amsterdam. It used to be a church so the sound is always great. A good place to see new bands just after they've toured the UK.

Weteringschans 6-8
1017 SG Amsterdam
020 - 626 45 21
www.paradiso.nl

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Club 11 is situated on the 11th floor of what used to be a post sorting building near Central station.
It is a restaurant/bar/club which offers fantastic views of the city and the IJ river/port.

The food is reasonably priced for the standard you get. It’s a great club for dancing afterwards with a relaxed atmosphere.

Oosterdokskade 3-5; tel: 020 6255999; www.ilove11.nl

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On the top (11th) floor of the old PO building - a 60s tower block - 11 is a trendy restaurant and club. There’s not much choice with the food, but the two times I've been there, it was very good (other reviews I've read are more variable).

It’s more or less the same story with the music: its trendiness is not always a guarantor of reliability, but what do you expect? I got a good dose of spiky 70s/80s-influenced dance music both times. It may be boring to you, but it is a welcome variety in a city obsessed with trance and DJs who advertise themselves as the "#3 DJ in the world".

However, it's difficult for the food or music to compete with the visual: a panoramic view of Amsterdam (yes, you can be snarky about the fact that on the 11th floor you tower over everything in Amsterdam), combined with projections all around the room.

It's a weird 5 minutes walk from Centraal Station - along the docks. If you pass the giant floating Chinese Restaurant, you're nearly there. The entrance is rather unprepossessing, around the back of the building in a carpark that, the last time I was there, was still a building site.
Oosterdokskade 3-5; tel: 020 6255999; www.ilove11.nl

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