Haarlem Entertainment

  1. Café 1900

    This authentic brown café is a little gem, with a fin-de-siècle interior, long bar perfect for propping up, and pleasantly mixed crowd. Live bands and DJs often feature on weekends.

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  2. Café Het Melkwoud

    A great place to nurse a beer with crunchy locals behind those ceiling-high windows. You can't miss the sign - a tree shaped like a woman.

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  3. Café Stiels

    For jazz and rhythm & blues, bands play on the back stage almost every night of the week from .

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  4. Café Studio

    Within view of the cathedral is this café/bar, which seems a nice, calm place for a drink in the early evening (inside or on its terrace), but by its heaves with 20- and 30-somethings looking to make the most of a night out.

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  5. Patronaat

    Haarlem's top music and dance club attracts bands with banging tunes. Events in this cavernous venue usually start around or unless it's a midnight rave.

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  6. Philharmonie

    Haarlem's venerable concert hall, which features music from every spectrum imaginable (except perhaps Death Metal, but with the Dutch, you never know).

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  7. Proeflokaal In den Uiver

    This quirky old place has shipping knick-knacks and a schooner sailing right over the bar. There's jazz on Thursday and Sunday evenings.

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  8. Stadsschouwburg

    The city's municipal theatre and sister venue to the Philharmonie, the Stadsschouwburg is currently undergoing major renovation and should be ready - well, sometime in the future is all anyone knew. Check with the tourist office for more information.

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  9. Toneelschuur

    This bizarre multilevel stage complex (designed by a Dutch cartoonist, Joost Swarte) has a daring agenda of experimental dance, theatre and art-house cinema, and acts as a production house for up-and-coming directors.

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