Entertainment in Côte D’Azur
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Les Trois Diables
Music is a mix of trip-hop, house and electro at this small local club. Thursday is student night (show your ID); Wednesday is karaoke.
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Le Palais
This ephemeral nightclub (it’s open only for 50 nights each year) has become the hottest ticket in DJ land, a combination of the most happening names in music and its spectacular setting at the heart of the Palais des Festivals. It’s the VIPs’ favourite spot so door policy is pretty tight: no guys without girls, only fabulous-looking people and €25 minimum (€60 on big nights).
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Palais Club
'Dance your life' with the world's best DJs is the buzz at this summer club which has taken Cannes by storm for the past couple of seasons - let's hope it's around next year. Electronic music and dance is the sound. A 2600-sq-metre dance floor inside and 1500-sq-metre rooftop lounge terrace with glittering Med view is the space. An affluent crowd of 2500 clubbers is the set.
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Le Bâoli
This is Cannes’ coolest, trendiest and most selective night spot. So selective in fact that your entire posse may not get in unless you’re dressed to the nines. The Bâoli is part-club part-restaurant so the only way to ensure you’ll get in is to book a table for dinner (mains €60) and make a night of it. Unlike the Palais it’s open year-round.
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Palm Beach Casino
This architecturally hip casino boasts a range of facilities including restaurants, a reception venue, a lounge bar, a private beach and, surprisingly, slot machines. Indulge in all the pleasures of gambling and soak up the carefree atmosphere that comes with throwing money away on the Riviera - all with the convenience of helicopter access.
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L'Atelier
Anyone who's anyone heads to this spectacular club within the Palm Beach Casino. The interior - a minimalist mesh of Byzantine, Greco-Roman and Oriental - has a restaurant and lounge bar. Recently saved from bulldozers and spectacularly restored, it's well worth a nosey. DJs spin jazz and lounge music early on and R&B later on.
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Le Sun 7
The cocktail list is an arm long (literally), and it doesn’t even include the 350 whiskies and many draught beers also served at this happening bar. The crowd is young on weekend nights when DJs spin their stuff, but it’s much more eclectic during the week. There is no cover charge and the door policy is pretty relaxed.
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La Discoteca
La Discoteca has all the bells and whistles you might expect from a club in Cannes, but with considerably less class. If you want that casting director to notice you, ordering a jeroboam of champagne sees your table spot-lit as a gong goes off. On the off-chance Hollywood doesn't beckon, at least you can get very drunk.
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Cinemathèque de Nice
Catch nondubbed flicks at Cinéma Nouveau Mercury and Cinéma Rialto . Art films (usually in the original version with French subtitles) are screened at Cinemathèque de Nice , which is at the Acropolis conference centre and concert hall.
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High Club/Studio 47
The High Club’s mega sound system draws the occasional big-name DJ and throngs of 20-somethings every weekend. Over-30s hang out in the adjoining Studio 47, a secondary bar in the room behind the vast dance floor. Doormen are fussy; look sharp or don’t get in. Every second Sunday is gay night.
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L'Odace
Odace has inhabited the rather large shoes left by Le Grand Escurial, a dance venue that claimed to be the largest on the French Riviera. Reminiscent of Paris's Buddha Bar, you can kick back for lazy cocktails and nibbles in mock-Asian surrounds while laid-back tunes filter through the air.
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Le Bar des Oiseaux
Artists dig this bohemian bar (and adjoining theatre) for live jazz, chanson française (French songs) and cabaret nights. Cover costs around €5 when there’s entertainment; you can also dine here (menus around €20; lunch Monday to Saturday, dinner Tuesday to Saturday).
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Le Smarties
We love Smarties’ sexy ’70s swirly orange style, which draws a hot-looking straight-gay crowd. On weekends, the tiny dance floor fills when DJs spin deep house, electro, techno and occasionally disco; weekdays are mellower. Free buffet with happy hour (nightly 6pm to 9pm).
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Pearl La Siesta
This legendary establishment is famous up and down the coast for its beachside nightclub (Le Pearl) and all-night dancing under the stars. Open from early June to mid-September only, you can still party at the indoor bar-lounge (Le Flamingo) during the rest of the year.
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Le 7
This disco-and-house gay club is a brilliant night out, but don't sit near the stage during the drag shows unless you're up for being part of the spectacle. Actually, there's so much attention-seeking here, it's doubtful newcomers will even be able to see the front row.
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Le Pastis
Le Pastis is the perfect start to a night on the town. It's one of the new kids on the Cannes block, but you would think it had been here forever. Charismatic barman Manuel mixes show-stopping cocktails, and there's a great wine list as well as a blackboard menu.
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La Grosse Tartine
This vivacious local bistro is not even a little bit pretentious. Proudly called 'the big tart', it's a fun way to start the evening - although the likelihood is you won't want to leave. No need to dress up - just make sure you've got your drinking shoes on.
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Balade en Provence
Flirt with the green fairy at this dedicated absinthe bar, complete with original 1860 zinc bar, round tables and accessories (four-tapped water fountain, sugar cubes etc). Make sure you strike up conversation with the hugely knowledgeable staff.
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Le Flag
It might be gay (with fabulously gay, as in colourful, interior to boot and a house cocktail called Rainbow), but this modern art gallery and lounge bar has its finger bang on the pulse for pleasing punters of all shapes and sexual orientations.
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Villa 14
Dining is almost a passing thought at Villa 14, a contemporary eating space off place Masséna best known for its super-large, great-at-any-time-of-day terrace beneath turquoise awning. Lounge DJs kick in weekends and summer evenings.
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La Terrasse
The Terrace, atop the casino, is Menton's only really serious drinking space with sea view. Ambiance lounge face à la mer (lounge bar atmosphere facing the sea) is its marketing line. Saturday is disco night.
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Blue Moon
R & B, rap and House are among the mixed sounds to throb out of this port-side club. Friday is usually themed and Thursday yields various alcohol deals - like as much as Sex on the Beach a girl can drink until 03:00.
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Carignan
Taste wine safe in the knowledge that Léandre Piquet (a former sommelier at the Majestic) is an authority. Find him behind the bar in his pocket-sized bar à vins (wine bar) atop the hill in Le Suquet.
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La Havane
For sultry Latin vibes, this bar-restaurant alternates live salsa and Latino jazz with merengue and bachata Tuesday to Saturday nights. Musicians play three sets of 45 minutes, starting at 9.30pm.
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Le Liqwid
An exclusive bar-cum-club with food to boot (lunch served noon to 14:00), Liqwid cooks fusion cuisine in a steely Art Deco interior which, come late, stages some of Nice's best visiting DJs. Tough door policy.
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