For several years, there have been two pubs in Amsterdam that explicitly focus on a lesbian audience but a “dancing” venue was missing: AT5 talks about B’Femme in Reguliersdwarsstraat. All are welcome, although Rachel Matteman, the owner, hopes for a male to female ratio of one to four.
“Just to be clear,” Rachel Matteman says. “The women’s bars that Amsterdam has are great. Café Saarein is an institution and a monument, and Bar Buka is a nice place for a drink,” the owner tells AT5. But a place run by women and designed above all to bring women together hasn’t existed for a long time.
Now, almost six years after Vivelavie’s closing party, B’Femme opens its doors in Reguliersdwarsstraat, a venue obtained from the division of a venue, the Blend XL: you pass through one door to enter the other. The idea was to organize a lesbian party on a regular basis but in the end the owners chose to go further and open a real club.