Strasbourg Entertainment

  1. Irish Times

    A congenial and genuinely Irish pub that attracts a very international crowd. There's live music (including lots that's Irish) from about to on Friday and Saturday; Thursday may be karaoke night; and Sunday features a trivia quiz with prizes ( ). Major sports events - shown on the two wide screens - often push Saturday and Sunday opening back to kick-off time.

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  2. La Java

    A lively bar-dansant with a stylish saloon on the ground-floor and a grungy cellar - decorated like an old mine and the hold of a sailing ship - where you can boogy. Popular with the university crowd, especially on Sunday, when international students start gathering at .

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  3. La Laiterie

    Strasbourg's most vibrant venue for live music of every sort puts on about 20 concerts a month. Tickets (free to around €23 ) are available at the door (telephone bookings aren't accepted), via their website, at the Boutique Culture or, for a slight surcharge, at Virgin Megastore and FNAC ticket outlets. On Friday nights from midnight to , La Laiterie turns into a laid-back, nonexclusionary disco featuring musique électronique (electronic; around €5 ).

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  4. La Salamandre

    Billed as a bar-club-spectacles, this discotheque - warmly lit, friendly and with a marble fountain in the middle - has theme nights each Friday (salsa, 1980s etc). Wednesday and Thursday events are often sponsored by student groups (open to all).

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  5. La Taverne Française

    A mellow café favoured by actors from the national theatre, musicians from the opera house and students. A mixture of the old-fashioned and the endearingly tacky creates the ideal atmosphere for stimulating conversation. Bring along some fresh salmon and by the end of the evening you'll have lox.

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  7. Le Star

    A nondubbed film venue.

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  8. Odyssée

    An art-house cinema pretentiously billed as an espace cinématographique culturel européen (European cinematographic cultural space).

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  10. Zanzibar

    A laid-back bar in the heart of the Grande Île's student quarter. On most nights at or , local groups (plus a few from abroad) play classics from the repertoires of garage trash, noisefuzz, sleaze punk, glam rock and psychobilly in the Dantesque cellar.

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