Entertainment in Fortaleza
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Engarrafamento
The name means ‘traffic jam, ’ and that’s just what you’ll get at the door of this fun middle-class venue for live pagode (popular samba music), Música Popular Brasileira (MPB), forró and pop/rock. It looks little more than a restaurant from the outside, but inside it’s near disco-like, teeming with cool kids knocking back buckets of cheap Skol and picking at tasty bar food. Worth the R$15 taxi fare, especially on Sundays.
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Café Pagliuca
Fortaleza’s most bohemian live venue is a sophisticated café offering jazz (Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday), tango (Thursday) and bossa jazz (Saturday) from 9pm. It also does a good feijoada with a free caipirinha on Saturdays from noon (R$23). It skews 30-something-plus and draws artists, musicians and intellectuals.
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Mucuripe Club
In addition to being the best and most stylish disco in the Northeast, Mucuripe is a mind-blowingly huge, modern, nontouristy venue with a dinner club and five different dance areas where you skirt between techno or forró, live rock and pop or jazz. If you lose a friend in here, they’ll see you tomorrow.
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Pirata Bar
Long-standing Pirata is famous for its 'segunda-feira mais louca do planeta' (craziest Monday on the planet). The pirate ship-themed spot stages hours of live forró and other Brazilian rhythms for the packed crowd to dance through the night. The surrounding bars also get very lively.
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Clube do Vaqueiro
For more of a sertão (backlands of the Northeast) experience, try this enormous, cowboy-themed forró club where five different bands play on Saturday nights. It's popular with students. The Vaqueiro is out on the city's southeast outskirts, and best reached by taxi.
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Buoni Amici's
The Dragão do Mar area has several open-air restaurant/bars where people flock for evening drinks and to see what live music, street theater or other action starts up. Amici's is an attraction in itself with Brazilian music (live or DJ) from about 21:00 Thursday to Sunday.
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Órbita
Reminiscent of a college town rock club (with way better looking people than your college or ours), the large, black-and-purple Dragão do Mar bar hosts live reggae, rock, surf and samba rock amid snooker tables and a legion of flirtatious upper-class clientele.
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Crocobeach
The huge barracas on Praia do Futuro open on Thursday evenings for nights of live music, dancing and a crab feast. Crocobeach is the most fun, with comedy acts as well as music.
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