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Aroma
Baku's best combination of comfort, fashionable décor and great coffee. Pod lamps and electro-retro feel downstairs, street-view sofa seats above. It's also a wi-fi hotspot.
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Azza
Three floors of coffee-and-cream minimalism within a historic pavilion right on Fountain Square. Excellent food including decent pastas are served by self-consciously handsome, slow-motion waiters.
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Black City Pub
Although it's not worth a special trip, this Germanic wood-interior bar is a handy choice if you're staying at Hotel Araz. No spoken English, no menu.
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Café Caramel
Good espressos come with complementary cookie and glass of chilled drinking water. Small, with modern décor including a bridge-like upper level offering street views down through century-old vaulting.
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Café Mozart
With Klimt inside and a super-popular street terrace outside the Mozart remains a long-term favourite for Turkish breakfasts, lunch buffets or decent steak dinners.
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Chocolate
A classy, high-ceilinged café with pseudo-1920s touches, weighted hanging lamps and tasselled tablecloths on small wrought iron tables. However, macchiatos are far too milky.
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City Lights Bar
This hip, upmarket lounge-bar offers some incredible views of the city from its out-door terrace.
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Kafe Fəvvarələr
In Baku, you're likely to pay around Manat1 for a pot of tea at one of the open-air male-dominated summer çayxanas like those behind the Nizami Cinema, near the train station or a block north of Bibi restaurant in the Greater Baku area. The same tea will cost around Manat3 if a 'compulsory' cut-up Snickers bar arrives with your teapot. This will happen at most places on the Bulvar and at the well-located Kafe Fəvvarələr.
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Key Club
Most of the city-centre basement dives marked 'Disko Klub' are effectively prostitute pickup spots. However, there are some (partial) exceptions, where groups of revellers will feel comparatively comfortable. Key Club is relatively professionally run.
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Konti Pub
This medieval-style bierstübe-cavern offers the novel concept of letting you pour your own draft beers. Be careful where you sit: some metered taps dispense Xırdalan, others Bavaria at. It's mostly for locals.
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Le Chevalier
Le Chevalier is the nearest thing to a full-blown nightclub.
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Ocean Deck
Plonked in the middle of a duck pond, the terrace of this American café-bar makes a delightful people-watching perch in the summer. However, its small interior is rather lacklustre.
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Şarq Әfsanәsi
An upmarket çay evi (teahouse) can charge entirely ludicrous sums (around Manat6 to around Manat20 ) for a pot of tea with samovar of water and a range of jams and fruit. The best such places tend to be indoors, with comparatively exotic interiors, qalyan (hubble-bubble water pipes) to smoke and possibly a belly dancing show, as at Şarq Әfsanәsi.
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The Brewery
In a spacious, stone-vaulted basement with heavy wooden furniture, Baku's only brew-pub turns out very acceptable dark ales and less successful lagers. Germanic meals and pricey beer snacks are available.
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The Public
More comfy sofa seating is hidden away at the back room behind the sparse front bar area. Excellent espressos are comparatively inexpensive and there's a lunch deal.
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USSR
This basement Soviet-nostalgia bar is decidedly down-market and a little musty, but has some fun photos of politburo stars and a Red Army coat and general's cap that you can don for souvenir photos.
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X-ite
X-ite, above the Red Room bar, frequently changes name and format but usually operates as a weekend disco.
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Xəlifə
Customers at some restaurants and several upmarket teahouses are subjected to belly-dancing displays of very unreliable quality. Better than most is the show (after ) at the atmospheric, Arabic-themed cellar-restaurant Xəlifə , 'guarded' - in questionable taste - by costumed African 'slaves'.
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