Club entertainment in Québec
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Le Drague
The star player on the city’s tiny gay scene, Le Drague comprises a front outdoor terrace, a two-level disco where drag shows are held, a slightly more laid-back tavern –and then there’s Base 3. The men-only Base 3 is…well…let’s just say it turns the capital’s conservative reputation on its head and has even seen-it-all Montrealers saying ‘I didn’t know they had that in Québec City.’
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Sky Pub & Club
This is one of those popular Village complexes designed to suck you in for an entire Saturday night of partying. If you’re a gorgeous guy or looking for one, start the evening in the 1st-floor pickup pub before heading up to the dance floors (disco and energized house/hip-hop). The roof terrace is a perfect place to catch the Loto-Québec International Fireworks Competition in summer.
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Red Lite After Hour Discotheque
This 1850-sq-meter club has been around for decades, and the sketch factor – dark, pulsing, trippy – is through the roof. Its remote location in the French suburbs of Laval adds to the other-world feeling, and also explains its clientele, mostly people who live or work nights in Laval. With house and hip-hop rooms, it gets great DJs from around the world. A cab from the city should take about 20 minutes.
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L’Alterno
Regulars kept telling former Le Drague employee Benoît they wished there was another gay club in town to shake up the scene a little, so finally he opened one, tucked away just inside the Porte St-Jean. It’s low-key during the day with people playing billiards, but wilder at night once the DJs come out. It’s easy to miss this place – look for the pride flag and go up the stairs.
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Circus After Hours
Sometimes featuring circus performers and dancers, this hot spot is more glamorous than you might expect from an after-hours joint. Big-name DJs join local residents behind the decks, to the dancing thrills of glo-stick-brandishing ravers, and city clubbers not yet ready to call it a night. Get there early to avoid the long line; alcohol served before 3am.
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Officially called La Société des Arts Technologiques, this slick warehouse and new media space promotes partying as much as digital art. DJs and performance artists push the envelope with banks of multimedia installations, while cult party brands like NEON throw parties here. Dancing and carousing with the arty, electro-loving glam set.
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Le Social
Inside a converted 19th-century mansion, Le Social is fun spot to while away the night among its three floors. Chandeliers, stained-glass windows and wild locally crafted artwork all add to the eclectic ambience. The crowd is hit-or-miss, depending on the night, with DJs spinning old-school funk, house, electropunk or straight-up rock.
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Electric Avenue
Duran Duran, INXS, Depeche Mode…the spirit of ’80s video pop lives on in this basement club in party-down Rue Crescent. A few mirrors and lamps on satin-covered walls make up the decor, but no matter; from around 11pm on weekends you’ll find the dance floor is packed with nostalgic 30-somethings.
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Tokyo Bar
This successful little club reels in scenesters and suburbanites in their 20s and early 30s, who dance up a storm on two dance floors. Weekends are more mainstream, while a cool crowd hangs out Wednesdays for ‘rock night.’ The huge rooftop bar and patio rules on summer nights! Great staff, too.
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Tribe Hyperclub
Celebrity guests like P-Diddy and Paris Hilton, house, trance and techno DJs, and sexy patrons make this very hyper nightclub the go-to spot of thousands. Don’t forget the monstrous 100,000-watt sound system. If you’re ready for bottle service, book a table in advance.
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Time Supperclub
Dress for success at this Miami-inspired supper club, where models and wannabes shake their booties upon a lit-up catwalk. Special events featuring international DJs and celebrities attract paparazzi-seekers who dig high-energy house music and overall gorgeousness.
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Chez Maurice
Set up in a gutted, châteaulike mansion and cheekily named after hard-ass former Québec premier Maurice Duplessis, this entertainment complex has three separate partying spaces. There’s a nightclub, and a cigar lounge with 200 sorts to choose from.
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Zoobizarre
One of Montréal’s coolest party rooms, this intimate venue hosts special DJ nights and concerts featuring amazing local and international talents. You have to be ‘in the know’ to know about it, so consider yourself informed.
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Cherry
Danceable old-school house music and decadent antics are de rigueur at this upscale party spot known for its red leather booths and on-fire dance floor. Things tend to get going late at night, thanks to DJs who keep the energy grooving.
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Belmont
This pub-meets-club is packed on weekends with yuppie Francophones in jeans and leather jackets who dig the laser light shows and hit-spinning DJs. Some don’t get past the pool table, cheap beer and big-screen sports in the front bar.
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Fixion
Québec’s love affair with all things Latino is bizarre but heartfelt. This Latin nightclub features live bands, DJs and dancing to reggae, salsa, bachata and merengue. Olé.
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Saphir
Underground punk, Goth, glam and industrial are in full effect at this cavernous two-story club. Cheap drinks, unbridled dance floors and no attitude make this club experience a dark and dirty free-for-all.
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L’amour Sorcier
The tamer atmosphere at this café-bar is mainly enjoyed by lesbians, but gay men are welcome too. The gay community may be small but the lesbian one is even smaller and this is the only horse in town.
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Chez Dagobert
Multifloors, multibars, multiscreens – the capital’s classic disco behemoth has everything from live rock to naughty DJs. The music may change; the young, randy crowd stays the same.
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Suite 701
Housed in the former lobby of posh Hôtel Place-d’Armes, which in turn is located in a former bank, this elegant marble-filled space attracts a corporate crowd ready to get their party on.
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Club 737
Try pre-dinner drinks with the glam set on the 43rd floor – the romantic skyline never disappoints. Serious cruising goes on among the office crowd of 30-somethings.
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Le Loft
A spiffed-up crowd of 18-to-25s turns up for mainstream rock and alternative on two dance floors, rough-edged murals and a great rooftop terrace. The wide metal staircase and ventilation ducts give the place a warehouse feel; the usual gear is jeans and T-shirts.
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