Part of the Gay Amsterdam Guide — bars, events & things to do.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Welcoming gay bar on Reguliersdwarsstraat with drag and cocktails
Bar Blend sits in the middle of Reguliersdwarsstraat, the spine of Amsterdam's gay nightlife, and works as a modern neighborhood bar more than a club — a ground-floor room with a long bar, tables, wall benches, and a DJ booth, plus a second floor for busier nights. The programming leans social and a little campy: regular drag shows, Monday-night bingo, and themed evenings like Eurovision watch parties and guilty-pleasure pop nights. It's an easy first or last stop on a Reguliers crawl, with a mixed gay crowd and enough seating to actually talk early in the evening before the street fills up. Bar Blend is the smaller, more laid-back counterpart to BLEND XL, its larger dance-focused sibling a few doors down, so the two work well as a pair across one night.
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