Best Divine Dining
Darren writes for the gay community and the modern metrosexuals who like to be in their company. As a volunteer at Pink Point (the world's 1st Homo information kiosk) and author of the "Bent Guide to Gay & Lesbian Amsterdam", I've got the goss on everything that ain't straight around town.
Best Divine Dining
Once you find the narrow alley off Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal and make it past the keen-eyed door trollop you enter a super groovy, super cool, super expensive and super weird cross between a warehouse rave, slumber party and a haute cuisine restaurant of the supperclub.
So Weird it's Cool
Downstairs the lounge/bar looks like it’s from Kubrick’s 2001 A Space Odyssey – curvaceous, super slick & shiny. Upstairs, two giant all white double-decker beds flank the vaulted room leaving the floor vacant for performance art, DJs, dancing or whatever funky weird stuff the lunatic collective running the place want to dish up.
Royal Treatment
And I don't just mean Queens, but also Dykes, Dukes, Kings, Princesses and all other royal-family wannabes of every persuasion. Leave all the table manners your Great Aunt Hilda taught you, slip off your shoes, stretch out on the soft white mattresses, chill to the always cool music (check out their range of self-titled CDs), take a massage on offer and settle in for a long but entertaining night. The surprisingly good 5 course menu (which you have no choice in - alongside sometimes being served hors-d’oevres with forceps from a dog bowl) can take ages to appear…so make sure you go with company you really enjoy (and don’t mind being slightly embarrassed in front of).
A Service Apart
On my most recent visit our wine waiter (clad head to toe in black vinyl, looking like the fetish love child of Darth Vader & Cat Woman) bent over in front of us so we could sip the champagne contained in the 2 huge rubber sacs hanging between his legs. This is not the kind of place you need to remember which fork to use first! The waiters (sometimes looking all Kate Moss junkie chic, at other times are ultra-glam transsexuals) add to the Uber-theatrics by treating you with artful disdain - but can be quite friendly if you don’t react badly to what can be shocking service.
Which One?
Lastly, the unisex toilets are marked Hetero & Homo. If you’re bored it’s fun just waiting outside watching straight suit & tie types fretting over whether they should relieve themselves in front of gay patrons or their female colleagues.
Supperclub
Address: Jong Roelensteeg 21
Telephone: +31 (0)20 344 6400
Website: www.supperclub.nl
Email: info@supperclub.nl
Transport: Trams 1,2,5 stop: Dam Square
Hours: Restaurant: Sun - Thurs, 19:30 - 01:00; Fri & Sat, 19:30 - 03:00 Lounge/Bar: Sun - Thurs, 19:00 -01:00; Fri & Sat, 19:00 - 03:00.
Extras: Try out the supperclub boat for canal cruises, or the shiek re-furbished supperclub cruise, the lounge on water - in a totally modern refurbished shipping boat from the 1960s. supperclubs can also be found in Rome & San Francisco.
Accessibility: Wheelchair unfriendly: lots of stairs & elevated ‘beds’ as seating, upper level needing access by narrow & steep stairs.
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