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Drops
You feel like you’re at a private house party in this elaborate little villa in a residential neighborhood. Bartenders specialize in cocktails concocted with fresh fruit, and the little dance floor features music ranging from indie rock and hip-hop to ’80s hits.
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Clube Vegas
Hidden in a basement in a seedy area just north of Av Paulista, neon-lit Vegas delivers a varied program, with music styles spanning jazz to rock to electronica, and attracting an eclectic, mixed crowd of die-hard night owls, both gay and straight.
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Bar Brahma
A Sampa classic near Praça da República with a well-preserved wood-paneled interior, Brahma remains a popular after-work hangout for professionals, and offers up live music (sometimes with cover charge) most nights after 9pm.
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Mokai
Top-rack electronica and images of Marie Antoinette let you know you’re in the newest upscale-decadent nightspot, where the outrageous cover charge (upwards of R$100) seems only to attract more of the city’s beautiful people.
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Astronete
Near Rua Augusta and occupying an old colonial house dressed up to look vaguely like a pub, this new favorite of Sampa’s alternativos gets past the clichés with a clever mix of soul, funk, and indie rock.
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Bar da Lôca
Presided over by Saddam, beloved for his kind attention as well as his myriad gold chains, this simple place attracts a mixed gay-alternative-punk crowd until very late. Located just off the Rua Augusta corridor.
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Canto da Ema
For a break from São Paulo’s upmarket danceterias, this relaxed, intimate club specializes in forró universitário, a more approachable version of the high-octane dance music from Brazil’s Northeast.
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Genésio
Bow-tied waiters ferry draft beers and espressos as well as homemade pizzas and pastas to an eclectic crowd ranging from poets to the party-hearty at this perennial favorite of Vila Madalena night owls.
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Volt
Owner Facundo Guerra has decked out this trendy joint with the neon signs that used to light up the houses of ill repute on Rua Augusta. Today the signs attract the young and well heeled like moths.
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Café Floresta
With its antique murals, excellent brew and location on the ground floor of Niemeyer’s Edifício Copan building near Praça da República, this stand-up-only café is a favorite of traditionalists.
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Bar Anhanguera
This big, breezy beer joint sits in the middle of the Vila Madalena action and specializes in high-quality microbrew beers from all over Brazil, to be savored along with the big-screen sports.
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Bar Balcão
With good wine, excellent light meals and a simple but elegant design built around a cleverly serpentine bar, this Jardins delight is especially popular with well-heeled designers and artists.
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Love Story
Sampa’s classic after-hours nightclub, Love Story attracts a rare combination of bourgeois kids, bohemians, celebrities and off-duty sex workers to its huge dance floor. Prices can be steep.
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Choperia Liberdade
For karaoke the old-fashioned way, head to this kitsch classic, which is decked out in Christmas lights and plug-in paintings. There is a R$10 cover charge from Thursday to Saturday.
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Z Carniceria
Underground goes upscale at this latest-greatest offering on Rua Augusta. The theme is raw meat, from door handles fashioned from butchers cleavers to the cow skulls on the wall.
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Skye
Dress up at least a little for the rooftop bar on the top floor of the Hotel Unique, whose sleek design and unparalleled views make it the perfect place for a sundown cocktail.
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Santo Grão
The cappuccinos here are, quite simply, as good as those in Italy. Beans are toasted in back while the little terrace reverberates with caffeine-fueled conversation.
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All Black
For your dose of Guinness, fish, chips and Irish good cheer check out Sampa’s best approximation of a Dublin pub, with live music most nights (cover R$10 to R$20).
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D-Edge
With one of the city’s most remarkable sound systems and a roster of world-famous DJs, this mixed gay-straight club is a ‘don’t miss’ for fans of electronica.
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Clube Gloria
A church remade into a temple to house and electro music, Glória is inspired by ’80s-style European discos and attracts an upscale-alternative crowd.
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Bourbon Street Music Club
The top spot for live jazz and blues in Sampa, Bourbon Street has hosted the likes of BB King and Ray Charles.
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Café Suplicy
Has a refined industrial-chic feel and also outrageously good coffee and pastries.
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HSBC Belas Artes
Six screens showing new, high-quality foreign and domestic films.
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