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Centro Cultural Gabriel García Márquez
Opened in 2008 and a modern addition to La Candelaria, this expansive new complex pays homage to Colombia’s most famous author in name, but its events span the cultural spectrum way past literature. There’s also a giant bookstore (with a few English titles), a hamburger restaurant and cafe.
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Yumi Yumi
Right off Av Jiménez, this pocket-sized lounge/restaurant – run by a bleach-haired Brit bloke and mustached local chef – fills with student passersby and hostel guests for excellent, experimental two-for-one cocktails (try the sour lucita, with tequila and lulo fruit) for COP$14,000. The Thai curry special on Monday and Tuesday (COP$9000) is the best touch of Bangkok in Bogotá.
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Casa de Citas
Named for an earlier incarnation – when prostitutes advertised themselves from the balcony above – the saloon-styled Citas is now an atmospheric cafe, adorned with Castro photos, that hosts live rumba, jazz or salsa shows Thursday through to Saturday. Great COP$7500 set lunch during the day too.
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Pequeña Santa Fe
A cozy, historic two-story home with a fireplace by the bar and soft-lit lot upstairs sits next to the evocative Plazoleta del Chorro de Quevedo. It’s one of a few great spots here to sample a hot mug of ‘canelazo Santa Fe’ (a yerba-buena tea with aguardiente), or a beer.
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Gaira Café
Vallenato legend Carlos Vives’ ultrafun dancehall/restaurant for live vallenato – or modern takes on it. Locals pack in for food and rum drinks, and dance in the tight spaces around tables to an 11-piece band. Cocktails are about COP$15,000, sandwiches and salads from COP$11,000.
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Cha Cha
Atop the old Hotel Hilton in Chapinero (with sweeping city views), the glitzy Louis XVI–meets-art-deco club brings in fairly casual locals for a mix of DJs spinning various rhythms del noche – rumba, salsa, electronica. And Sunday night is ‘Sungay’ night.
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Vinacure
An unreal makeover of a historic theatre, this camp electronica disco has a giant flesh-to-flesh dance floor for fun-seeking bogotanos of all persuasions; all eyes equally fasten onto the red-curtain stage for wild drag queen karaoke shows later on.
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Treffen
A quirky option in Chapinero is Treffen, which means ‘encounter’ in German, but no words describe the bar’s cartoon nightmare mood, with nooks and crannies filled with stuffed animals, colorful tables and games menus.
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El Libertador
Busy with 20-something cool kids, this posh cocktail bar, above a restaurant on a boutique-eats strip near Museo Nacional, has soft-light rooms with lounge seats, a mounted deer head and pricey malt whiskeys (from COP$16,000).
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Estadio El Campín
The principal venue for soccer is the Estadio El Campín. Games are played on Wednesday night and Sunday afternoon. Tickets can be bought at the stadium before the matches (from COP$6000).
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Alma
Bogotá’s beautiful, snobby, ritzy crowd elbows its way into this new Zona Rosa three-floor club that varies its musical styles – salsa, rock, electronic, funk. Don’t be surprised to be turned away.
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Teatro de La Candelaria
One of the edgiest theaters in the center, with a mix of political shows (often lefty, sometimes covering women’s-rights issues) that always know when to put in a joke to diffuse any tension.
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Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño
This cultural institute in La Candelaria hosts many events (including dance and theater, and also some concerts). In 2008 a Goya painting was stolen during an art exhibit here.
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Buenavista
A short taxi ride north of La Candelaria is this totally unpretentious salsa club located in a brick house, with about 20 tables and live Cuban bands on weekends.
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Teatro Libre Centro
This is a venue for small theater, although most of its productions are now presented in the theater group’s new branch, Teatro Libre Chapinero.
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Teatro Experimental La Mama
Now in its fifth decade, this ‘experimental’ theater in Chapinero stages various performances by amateur groups not shy to provoke.
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El Goce Pagano
Nearing 40, the divey salsa/reggae bar near Los Andes university is a smoky place with DJs and sweat-soaked bodies.
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Teatro Libre Chapinero
Teatro Libre Chapinero is the new branch of the theater group Teatro Libre Centro.
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