I amsterdam - Best Divine Dining

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 loooooong 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 transexuals) 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.

Address: Jong Roelensteeg 21
Tel: +31 (0)20 344 6400
Website: www.supperclub.nl
email: info@supperclub.nl
Transport: Trams 1,2,5 stop: Dam?

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 supperclubboat for canal cruises, or the shiek re-furbished supperclubcruise, the lounge on water - in a totally modern refurbished shipping boat from the 1960's. Check out their sister, the Arabian-inspired Nomads on the Rozengracht (www.restaurantnomads.nl).  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.