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Café Sol y Luna
A low-key, Dutch-run hangout offering cocktails, good coffee but very average meals. It has three cozy levels with a book exchange and an extensive guidebook reference library (many current LP titles), a dart alley and couches downstairs.
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Cinemateca Boliviana
Your best chance of catching a quality art film is at the Cinemateca Boliviana, which shows an excellent selection of new art-house Bolivian and subtitled foreign films regularly. (At the time of research the organization's new complex was still being built at the above location; contact them to find out where they're currently showing their releases).
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Dead Stroke
An upbeat and marginally sleazy billiards bar with cable TV. It attracts lots of night owls with pool, snooker, darts, chess and dominoes, and also serves standard bar meals.
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Diesel Nacional
The postmodern place to escape reality for an overpriced drink with the rich kids. It doesn't really get going until late.
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El Calicanto
Housed in an old colonial home two blocks from Plaza Murillo, it consists of the café El Molino, which does coffee and lunches, a bar with a nightly peña, and the Restaurant Las Tres Parrillas (with reasonably priced and excellent food).
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Forum
The longstanding and popular granddaddy of La Paz's discos appeals to the young and restless, and offers a different musical theme each night of the week.
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La Casa del Corregidor
Housed in a beautiful colonial building, this upmarket peña (folk music) is called Rincon Colonial de La Paz, and offers a regular, but enjoyable peña experience.
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La Choperia
Opposite the Mormon church, its rustic interior, retro photographs from the '20s and '30s, Western pop music and pitchers/jugs of beer make it a favorite with middle-class locals.
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Mongo's
La Paz's long-standing hip, hot (it gets crowded) and happening spot. Especially popular with expats and NGO workers. On some nights, you can catch Cuban and Colombian performers.
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Oliver's Travels
The worst (or best?) cultural experience in La Paz is to be had at this pub. It claims to offer 'nothing original - just beer, football, curry, typical English food, cheeky banter and lots of music you've heard before'. But luckily for owner Olly himself, crowds of revelers swallow this stuff. It has one of the best book exchanges around.
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Peña Huari
The city's best-known peña is aimed at tourists and Bolivian business people. The attached restaurant specializes in Bolivian cuisine, including llama steak, Lake Titicaca trout, charque kan (jerky) and salads. The show starts at .
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Peña Marka Tambo
A less expensive - and some claim more traditional - peña . The food is okay, but the music is better.
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Peña Parnaso
You can sample all sorts of local specialties, including various llama dishes: charque kan, shish kebab and even llama fondue. It show also features Andean dancing. It's also open for lunches but with no show.
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Ram Jam
If La Paz had a Paris Hilton, she'd be here. This trendy hot spot has the lot: great food and drinks, mood lighting and live music. There are vegetarian options, English breakfasts and microbrewed beer. After exerting yourself on any of these, you can breathe easy on the bar's first floor in Ozone, the most novel oxygen bar in the world.
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Reineke Fuchs
Sopocachi brewhaus featuring imported German beers, schnapsladen and hearty sausage-based fare. Also in Zona Sur.
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Teatro Municipal Alberto Saavedra Pérez
The Teatro Municipal Alberto Saavedra Pérez has an ambitious program of folklore shows, folk-music concerts and foreign theatrical presentations. It's a great old restored building with a round auditorium, elaborate balconies and a vast ceiling mural. The newspapers and municipal tourist office have information about what's on here.
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Thelonious Jazz Bar
Bebop fans love this charmingly low-key bar for its live performances and great atmosphere.
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The cool crowd chills here for cocktails, live music - from world music to disco - and all the attitude and dancing you can muster. You can linger until late.
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