Entertainment in Central Balkans
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Bally
This new club playing hip-hop and techno has both its supporters and detractors. With its large central dance floor, it can seem empty unless there’s a weekend crowd.
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Cinema Arena
The latest Hollywood films are on at Cinema Arena in the new shopping centre, Central Mall, which also has a nightclub, bowling alley and casino. (A taxi is the easiest way to get there.) In addition to the mall, the new town, little-visited by tourists, is where many students reside and thus also offers heavy-duty entertainment during term.
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Sobieski LABB
The most visually alluring café on ul Tsar Simeon Veliki is also the first you come to after turning right from the square (from ul Metropolit Metodii Kusev). Its stylish black-and-white décor extends to the outside benches facing the park. There are plenty of interesting drinks on offer and house music plays most of the time.
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10th Town Café
The name of this sleek café refers to Shumen’s rank among Bulgarian cities. It aspires, with its wireless connection, colourful décor and Spanish coffee, to scale new cosmopolitan heights. The café offers that relative rarity in the Balkans, a room for nonsmokers, plus a summer garden.
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Nightclub Colosseum
Drunken Bulgarians, aerosol cans and a lighter might seem a dangerous combination, but there are even hotter things besides 6ft-high flames inside this big student nightclub. Different theme nights range from student nights to DJ parties and retro.
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Pepy’s Bar
[ourpick] Pepy’s Bar If you were an expat in Târnovo, Pepy’s might well be your local. The dark-lit, popular bar doesn’t put on airs like the more studenty places; it’s just a cosy, chilled-out nightspot with subdued style.
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Shekerdzinitsa
This lovely little café with traditional furnishings in the old market is the place to go for real Turkish coffee –appealingly prepared the old-school way, in a diminutive copper pot run across a basin of heated sand.
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Arizona Cocktail Bar
Arizona Cocktail Bar. This popular nightspot with both an outdoor terrace and indoor bar serves over 50 different cocktails, made and transported by friendly bar hands. It usually only gets busy after midnight.
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Soundgarden
The once frequent live rock shows held here had become, at the time of writing, sadly rare; nevertheless, this weathered place between the square and the river retains its alternative edge and cultivates a pub ambience.
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Ruse Opera House
The Ruse Opera House, open since about 1890 and one of the town’s finest buildings, is well known for its quality productions. Buy tickets at the box offices, or through the Tourist Information Centre.
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Bacardi Cocktail Bar
This cute cocktail bar attached to the Hotel Ezeroto has a shiny interior and plays candy pop music to complement the sweet cocktails; you can also sit outdoors and gaze out onto the pond.
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Deep Club & House
Also on ul Aleksandrovska, this cool bar with outdoor seating and a dark, eclectically decorated subterranean section plays a variety of music and is a good chill-out place.
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Jack
This pumping student club for knavish lads and short-skirted girls is named for the American whisky, and is especially popular on weekends with house music and dancing.
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Cocktail Bar Hollywood
This slick and very popular curbside bar of the Grand Hotel has two rooms, disco balls, strobe lights and tiger skin couches; as stylish as it gets in Kazanlâk.
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Sava Ognyanov Drama Theatre
The Sava Ognyanov Drama Theatre is well known for its quality productions. Buy tickets at the box offices, or through the Tourist Information Centre.
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Café Aqua
Lounge over a coffee and slatka (sweet) until late in the evening at this central café, which has a breezy balcony overlooking the gorge.
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Club Retro
This café in the park is good for a relaxing coffee by day, or for cocktails at night. There’s salsa dancing on Fridays.
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Ulitsata
To one side of the Hotel Trapezitsa, this is one of Târnovo’s busiest and friendliest cafés, with nice views from the terrace.
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City Pub
This popular, big British-style pub near the post office and TIC is a bit gimmicky, but usually lively with local students.
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Konstantin Kisimov Dramatic Theatre
For a spot of theatre, try the Konstantin Kisimov Dramatic Theatre. The Tourist Information Centre can tell you what's on.
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Biraria Guinness
This beer hall across from Mehana Popsheitanova Kushta is a popular nightspot with locals, going well into the wee hours.
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Deep Café Club
This small, eccentrically lit subterranean bar-verging-on-club caters to a young crowd with hip-hop and house music.
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Scream Dance Club
Another of Târnovo’s popular clubs, Scream is slightly more tasteless but equally studenty.
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Art Club
Just across the park, this spacious bar is the place to go for live jazz music (Wednesday to Saturday).
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Bar Kokoracia
This cool place with red paper lanterns and house music is the best watering hole in town.
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