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Bar
For mellow 1940s and '50s jazz, don your smoking jacket and sip Cognac at the Peninsula's stylish main watering hole. Your fellow tipplers will be serious business blokes, coutured couples and new-money names trying to sound old(er). The music starts around .
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Bohemian Lounge
With suitably bohemian décor and regular tarot readings this is a great place for a libation any time but try to make it on Thursday after or Friday or Saturday after when live jazz kicks in.
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Captain's Bar
This clubby, suited place remains as comfortable and familiar as it did before the Mandarin Oriental got a massive face-lift. It serves ice-cold draught beer in chilled silver mugs and some of the best martinis in town and is a good place to talk business.
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Carnegie's
The rock memorabilia festooning the walls makes it all seem a bit Hard Rock Café-ish but it's worth a look all the same. From on Friday and Saturday, the place fills up with revellers, many of whom will end up dancing on the bar. All good clean fun.
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Causeway Lounge
This slick lounge has live folk music from to on weekdays and a resident quartet plays pop favourites from to Monday to Saturday.
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Cavern
Hong Kong's first (and only) supper club, the Cavern is effectively a showcase for two tribute bands: Sixties Mania Showband, done up in mop-head haircuts and bell-bottoms, and the Rolling Bones, a great Filipino band. Music starts at Monday to Saturday. There's food and the cover is around HK$100 . Enter from D'Aguilar St.
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Champagne Bar
Take your fizz in the sumptuous surrounds of the Grand Hyatt's Champagne Bar, kitted out in Art Deco furnishings realistic enough to evoke the Paris of the 1920s. Live blues or jazz rings through the bar most evenings, and the circular main bar is always busy.
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Fringe Gallery
The Fringe, a friendly and eclectic venue on the border of the Lan Kwai Fong quadrant, has original music in its gallery/bar from on Friday and Saturday, with jazz, rock and world music getting the most airplay. There's a pleasant rooftop bar open in the warmer months.
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Gecko Lounge
Entered from narrow Ezra's Lane off Cochrane St or Pottinger St, Gecko is an intimate lounge and wine bar run by a friendly French sommelier and wine importer with a penchant for absinthe. The well-hidden DJ mixes good sounds with kooky Parisian tunes and there's usually live music on Tuesday and Wednesday. Great wine list, obviously.
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Hari's
Tacky or classy? You decide, after a couple of speciality martinis - there are over a dozen to challenge you, including wasabi and garlic. The generous nightly happy hours will give you a chance to try these eclectic cocktails. There's also live music nightly.
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Insomnia
This is the place to come to when you can't sleep, as it fills up only when other nearby bars are starting to wind down. It's a people-watching place with a wide, open frontage, and there's a live Filipino band doing covers in the back. If the munchies strike in the witching hour there's food too.
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Joyce Is Not Here
'James or Ma?' we asked, trying to be clever. Alas, neither but this super-chilled café-bar in reds, whites and blacks has something for everyone - from poetry readings and live music on Thursday to booze and Sunday brunch. Love the place.
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La Tasca
La Tasca is more a cantina and bar than a restaurant nowadays and has live music starting from on Saturdays. But it still does a set lunch and food at night, including tasty tapas and more substantial main courses.
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Wanch
This place, which derives its name from what everyone calls the district, has live music (mostly rock and folk with the occasional solo guitarist thrown in) seven nights a week from . Jam night is Monday at . If you're not there for the music it can be a dubious scene - the Wanch is basically a pick-up joint.
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