Entertainment in Brighton & Hove
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Koba
This übercool cocktail bar oozes it-crowd extravagance and exclusivity. It's technically a member's club but the sumptuous velvet-draped front bar opens to the hoi polloi until 23:00, just enough time to ingratiate yourself with a member to be invited back into the private 'Champagne Bar' or 'The Gods' with high ceiling and altar-style bar.
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Dorset
There's a laid-back Parisian street-café feel to this gastropub and Brighton institution, which throws open its doors and windows in fine weather and spills tables onto the pavement. You'll be just as welcome for a morning coffee as for an evening pint here, and if you decide not to leave between the two, there's always its decent menu too.
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Beach
On a summer's day, there's nowhere better to sit and watch the world go by than at this popular beach bar and club. It has a funky brick-vaulted interior, and a wide terrace spilling onto the promenade within earshot of the surf and sight of the talent dipping into it.
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Evening Star
Hopheads heap praise on this beer-drinkers paradise; a snug unpretentious pub with a conveniently short stagger to the station after a sendoff from its wonderful selection of award-winning real ales, Belgian beers, organic lagers and real ciders.
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Honey Club
A cavernous seafront club that jumps from strength to strength, almost as popular with DJs as it is with the weekly queues of clubbers that pile into its glittering depths. Dress up, party hard, then cool off your aching feet in the sea.
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Audio
Some of the city's top club nights can be found at this ear-numbing venue, where the music's top priority, attracting a young, up-for-it crowd. Every night is different, with music ranging from breakbeat to electro to indie. Next to the Amsterdam Hotel.
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Ye Old King & Queen
Cobbled together from an 18th-century farmhouse, a nobleman’s hall and the former Brighton Corn Exchange, this cavernous boozer is a convenient place to sup a pint after visiting the Royal Pavilion.
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Funky Buddha
Twin giant, brick, subterranean tunnels, with bars at the front and back, playing funky house, ̓70s, R&B and disco to a stylish and attitude-free crowd.
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Brighton Dome
Once the stables and exercise yard of King George IV, this art-deco complex houses three theatre venues within the Royal Pavilion estate. ABBA famously won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest here.
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Regency Tavern
This unprepossessing place from the outside hides what looks like a room from the Royal Pavilion: striped wallpaper, cameo portraits and brass palm trees.
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Komedia Theatre
This former billiards hall and supermarket is now a stylish comedy, theatre and cabaret venue attracting some of the brightest stars on the stand-up circuit.
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Theatre Royal
Built by decree of the Prince of Wales in 1806, this grand venue hosts plays, musicals and operas.
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Revenge
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Queen's Arms
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Hub
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Gscene
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Candy Bar
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Basement Club
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Amsterdam
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St James
A blend of traditional Victorian boozer and hip watering hole, this popular Kemptown pub has lots of sanded wood, elaborate tiling and an ornate glass-backed bar; perfect for a peaceful pint.
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Riki Tik
Coffee bar by day, popular preclub venue by night, this place has been pumping out cool cocktails and funky breaks for years. It's stylish, dark and sexy and much bigger than it looks from the outside. DJs play here most nights.
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Ocean Rooms
This enduring favourite crams in three floors of dance variety, from an all-white bar to a dance floor where you can lap up the efforts of top DJs, from hip-hop to drum and bass, to breakbeat.
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Funky Fish Club
Fun, friendly and unpretentious little club playing soul, funk, jazz, Motown and old-skool breaks. No big-name DJs or stringent door policies, just cheap drinks and a rocking party atmosphere.
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Duke of York
About a mile north of North Rd, showing art-house films, mainstream flicks and classics.
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