Part of the Gay Amsterdam Guide — bars, events & things to do.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Amsterdam's oldest women's bar — a Jordaan brown café since 1978.
Saarein has held its corner of the Jordaan since 1978, when a collective of ten women took over the bar from a couple named Saar and Rein and turned it into Amsterdam's first women-only café, the name a contraction of the previous owners'. It's recognized as the city's oldest lesbian café, and in 1999 a new owner opened the door policy to all queer-minded people, but the lesbian crowd is still the core and sets the tone. What you get is a classic Dutch brown café rather than a bar with a scene: a pool table, darts, pinball, cheap drinks, and conversation, in a low-key room where regulars and visitors mix without attitude. In a nightlife landscape that has lost most of its dedicated women's spaces, it's one of the few queer bars in Amsterdam that genuinely feels like a neighborhood local, and worth the short walk west from the center to find it.
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