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Caprice
Originally a movie theater – hence the giant screen evoking its Tinseltown past – upscale Caprice is one of the best mainstream haunts on the Granville Strip. The cavernous two-level venue is a thumping magnet for all the local preppies and their miniskirted girlfriends, while the adjoining resto-lounge is great if you need to rest your eardrums and grab a restorative cocktail and bite to eat. Expect to line up here on weekends, when the under-25s visiting from the suburbs dominate.
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Roxy
A raucous old-school nightclub that still has plenty of fans – including lots of partying youngsters who seem to be discovering it for the first time – this brazen old hussy is downtown’s least pretentious dance space. Expect to be shaking your booty next to near-teenage funsters, kid-escaping soccer moms and UBC students looking for a bit of rough. On Sunday, don your buttless chaps and drop by for a wild western night out.
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Bar None
Yaletown’s favorite haunt for young professionals has a scrubbed beatnik appearance, but within its exposed-brick-and-beam shell the main topic of conversation is perfect cocktails and real estate prices. The great and good come to sip and sway at Thursday’s Straight Goods night (rap, hip-hop and $4 highballs) followed by Metro Fridays (’80s, ’90s and contemporary mixes).
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Shine
With music from electro to funky house and hip-hop, Gastown’s sexy subterranean Shine attracts a younger crowd and is divided into a noisy main blue room and an intimate cozy cave red room with a 40ft chill-out sofa. The club’s Bonafide Saturday indie disco and electro rave night is justifiably popular, while Wednesday’s reggae, glitch and dubstep is slightly more chill.
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Republic
Republic attracts those sophisticated over-25s who have strayed all the way from Yaletown. Start your visit with a cocktail on the 2nd-floor patio while you look over the human wreckage of staggering late-night drunks. Then hit the dance floor, open nightly. Sunday is reggae and ska classics, while Saturday offers pulsing dance shenanigans.
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Honey
A refreshing alternative to the Granville St party rabble, this laid-back resto-lounge venue transforms into a hopping club on weekends and is especially renowned for its Friday-night Mod Club, when a welcoming and pretence-free crowd of young hipsters dresses up for a night of pop-soul-and-everything-else fun. Good drinks specials, too.
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Aubar
Top 40, hip-hop and house blast from the speakers at this popular, mainstream near-Gastown haunt, complete with three bars and a smallish dance floor. Drop in on Friday for Sensual, a mash-up of R&B and old-school pop, or save yourself for Rockstar Saturday, when the locals writhe around each other with abandon.
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