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Bar Celona
The impressive renovation is almost irrelevant here, the main focus drifting between divorcees eyeing each other across the crowd and the effervescent staff, bubbly as champagne in tight yellow t-shirts. The tapas menu deserves scrutiny; DJs on Saturday nights.
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Hope & Anchor Tavern
It wasn't that long ago that you wouldn't be caught dead in here (for fear of ending up that way), but these days it's an atmospheric place, cashing in on its 1807 origins. The downstairs bar has pool tables, lounges and regular acoustic acts; upstairs is an amazing, museum-like bar and dining room.
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Irish Murphy's
Pretty much what you'd expect from any out-of-the-box Irish pub - crowded, lively, affable and dripping with Guinness. Free live music of varying repute from Wednesday to Sunday nights; original acts on Thursdays.
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Isobar
Downstairs here is a shmick bar, while Isobar itself - the club upstairs - plays commercial dance and blows hot and cold with the locals (most of whom seem to be there to pick up).
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Knopwood's Retreat
Adhere to the 'When in Rome…' dictum and head for 'Knoppies', Hobart's best pub, which has been serving ales to sea-going types since the convict era. For most of the week it's a cosy watering hole with an open fire; on Friday nights the beautiful people swarm and the crowd spills across the street.
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Mobius
A pumping clubby dungeon behind the main waterfront area, Mobius (hey wasn't he the guy in The Matrix ?) is a going concern. Breakbeats, hip-hop, drum and bass - the crowd gyrates in unison.
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Shipwrights Arms Hotel
Bend your elbow with the yachties at this beloved 1834 pub, bedecked with nautical paraphernalia and known affectionately as 'Shippies'. A generous seafood counter meal + beer garden = the perfect summer afternoon.
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Soak@Kaos
Perfect for an intoxicating urban afternoon or evening, gay-friendly Soak is an cloistered little lounge bar attached to Kaos Café. Consume burgers and cakes from the café alongside handsome cocktails, while listening to the resident DJ on Friday and Saturday nights.
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Syrup
Spreading syrup-like over two floors above Knopwood's Retreat, this is a great place for late-night drinks and DJs playing to the techno/house crowd.
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T-42º
Waterfront T-42º makes a big splash with its food (zingy new-world fusion dishes, heavy on the game and seafood), but also draws late-week barflies with its minimalist interior, spinnaker-shaped bar, ambient tunes and Charlie, the quintessential Hobart barman. If you stay out late enough, they do breakfast too.
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