Haarlem Nightlife

Fri & Sat 00.00 - 4.00 Dj's dance, techno, d&b and so on...
Rest of the week 21.00 - 11.30 live performances.

BEWARE: This place is not open every evening. Check their website http://www.patronaat.nl for the actual programme.

Entrance: This depends on what live performance or dj plays that evening. Check their website or call: 023 - 5326010 for information about this.

Most of the time the music is very nice here. Unfortunately the visitors are sometimes very young (17, 18 years old). Despite of that, this place is worth to pay a visit to.

Dress Code: No dressode.

It has two floors of good music. The one downstairs usually plays trance and those kind of music while the lounge on d first floor plays all kinds of music.... it has nice ambience and though rather small, it's one of d best club in Haarlem for my taste

For salsa-lovers I can highly recommend Tuesday and Thursday evening.

DJ Valeriano plays salsa tunes. It's very busy during Tuesday and Thursday because these are salsa dance nights.

If you like to dance, or just like to drink something at the bar and take a look at all the nice dance couples feel free to enter. You can go there with a dance partner, but you don't neccesairily have to. Just ask someone to dance.

I think the other evenings at Kokonoches Caf? are not so special because there are not so many people and the music and public is different.

Open:
Tuesday: Salsa Cafe 21.00 - 00:30
(bar open till 2.00)
Thursday:Salsa Cafe 20.00 - 00.00
(bar open til 4.00)

Friday: 20.00 - 04.00
Saturday: 20.00 - 04.00
Sunday: 20.00 - 02.00

Entrance: Free

Dress Code: Dress casual, no Sneakers, no trainingssuit.

Open:
Tue - Thu and Sun 16.00-02.00
Fri and Sat 16.00-04.00
Closed on Monday

Entrance:
Free

Cocktails, cigars, tapas and salsa. This is a real cantina Cubana.

For only 5 euro they will serve you nice cocktails like mojito's, carpariñas en Cuba libres. Do you like another cocktail? Just ask them and they'll make it for you. Of course they also serve the good old beer (for example heineken).

The tapas are nice as well: Chicken legs, stiffed meat, salad, artichoke etc. All served with bread.

The music is nice, the people are friendly.

On Friday and Saterday evening there's a safetyguard at the door. This is to prefend annoying people from entering the bar.

Dress Code: On Friday and Saterday evening there's a safetyguard at the door. Don't wear sneakers or a trainingssuit, otherwise he won't let you enter. Dress casual.

Open:
Mo- Fri 21.00 - 2.00
Sat & Sun 21.00- 4.00

Entrance:
Free

Live music by diverse artists during weekdays (except for Friday) and on Sunday. Music: Jazz, blues, soul, r&b, funk but also wellknown hits.

Friday and Saturday a mix of soul, funk, r&b, disco (70's and 80's) and recent hits.

You can drink something at the bar or dance in the back. The dancefloor is small but used by many people. Friday and Saturday you'll find me on the dancefloor most of the time.

During the weekend (Friday and Saturday evening) it's very buzzy and hot here. It's worthwhile to take a look though, because the people are very nice and the atmosphere is excellent.

The bartenders are very friendly and work hard and quickly.

A securityguard is at the door during Friday and Saturday evening, to prefend annoying people from entering.

Dress Code: You can dress casual. The only things you shouldn't wear are sneakers and a trainingssuit.
A securityguard is at the door. He won't let you in when you wear these cloths.

Haarlem has two cinema's that are centrally located in the shopping district.

You'll find Cinema Palace only a few minutes walk from the Houtplein in the shopping street Grote Houtstraat. This Palace only has 1 big theater so there are not many films shown here. Usually they do have the biggest movies of the moment.

Brinkmann Bioscopen (Dutch for cinema's) is located on the Grote Markt. It is bigger than the Cinema. but it is not my preferred one. I always check for the movies in Palace first. Reason is that Brinkmann is not very clean compared to Palace, and the screens are quite small too. Ususally I go to Amsterdam if my favourite movie is not shown in Palace.

I've been here a few times and although nothing spectacular the atmosphere is good. In the middle there is a big round bar, seperated in 2 parts and differnt heights and the side of the bar is covered with a zebra print. In the corner is a nice place where you can show your dancemoves. The music played varies a lot.

Nice pub with live music various nights in the week. Also sports are broadcasted when there is an interesting game on. The selction of beers is ok, and the prices are not bad at all. The pub is quite large and you can even eat something here. Good atmosphere!!!

Dress Code: Whatever....