Medellín Entertainment

  1. Café Arcángel

    A favorite of the alternative crowd, this place serves up beer, espresso, and even pierced poets reading their own works.

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  2. Le Bon Café

    If you prefer coffee to aguardiente, grab a table at this sophisticated café, Medellín’s few real coffee shops. Choose from 14 types of espresso and 10 of cappuccino. It sits on the south side of Parque Lleras.

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  3. Mango's

    For raucous, paisa -style partying, head to the crown jewel of Medellín's nightlife. Mango's looks like the set of 'Urban Cowboy' and is big enough to shelter more than a thousand partiers. The music pumps, but if you need additional inspiration there are often shows with picture-perfect exotic dancers of both sexes.

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  4. Melodie Lounge

    This slick cocktail joint attracts high-end hipsters with its glowing walls and chill ambient music.

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  5. Metrópolis

    With perhaps the best music and lighting infrastructure in the city, this place inside the Monterrey shopping mall serves up trance, techno and electronica to an adoring crowd of regulars.

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  6. Parque Lleras

    While there is not much of a café scene in Medellín, you're never far from a cocktail. In the evening, action is most highly concentrated around Parque Lleras in El Poblado. If funds are low, buy a bottle of hooch and hang out in the small park itself - there are no open container laws and you'll find plenty of company.

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  7. Vinacuré

    A piece of SoHo seems to have broken off and floated all the way to the hills south of Medellín. This outrageously imaginative place looks like a Frida Kahlo painting on acid, with choreography by the Cirque de Soleil. Give yourself over to the experience as you are greeted by honking geese, served by sexually ambiguous waitrons, and wowed by the circuslike live shows. It is a long and expensive cab ride (about around US$8 ) but worth every penny.

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  8. Zona Rosa

    To truly understand Medellín, you have to see its people in party mode. Paisas love to dress up, show off, throw some money around, and have a good time while they're at it.

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