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Astra-Stube
The graffiti-covered, flyer-posted red building, underneath the railway tracks looks totally unpromising, but the bar inside is a pioneer of the underground scene, with DJs playing experimental electro, techno and drum 'n' bass. It's also in a growing cluster of clubs, including the popular Waagenbau, next door.
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Aurel
A long-standing favourite in Altona is this snug bar with an eccentric back room where Stone Age meets baroque.
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Café Gnosa
This attractive olde-worlde café, with its vaguely erotic, vaguely abstract art, is hugely popular and an excellent starting point for gay and lesbian visitors to Hamburg. It stocks hinnerk .
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Café Knuth
With this chilled but smoky café-bar, Altona stakes its own claim on the olive-green retro style seen dotted across the city. Students, creative types and work colleagues come to chat over coffee or cocktails. (Forget the food; it frequently takes too long.)
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China Lounge
If you go to one mainstream club in Hamburg, this leading venue probably should be it. Stylish without being snootily exclusive, it boasts four areas playing electro, house, hip-hop and R&B - the main floor under a huge laughing Buddha. Thursday is student night, although the crowd always tends towards the young and hip.
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Cult
Claiming to be Hamburg's most beautiful club, Cult serves up an unintimidating, good-time mix of '70s and '80s music in its shiny, cathedral-like main room.
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Dual
Dual's all the better for no longer being one of the central pivots of the Hamburg scene. The vibe's more laidback and less look-at-me within its still-chic orange, 1970s retro interior.
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EDK
EDK 'Small is beautiful' says the sign outside, and for the gays, lesbians and friends who come to this techno-house club it certainly is.
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Frauencafé Endlich
This modern, wood-lined café is a top meeting spot for lesbians. It's located in a women-only hotel (www.hotel-hanseatin.de).
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Golden Cut
Hamburg's beautiful people clamber - stylishly of course - to get past the city's most difficult door scene into this exclusive club, where video projections spin over the dance floor while DJs spin soul, funk and house. Eating in the adjoining restaurant is (pun intended) a sure entrée.
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Lago Bay
Lago Bay is wedged between Hamburg del Mar (which looks like a pirates' cove with its famous St Pauli skull-and-crossbones flags) and Hamburg City Beach Club (with its Moroccan lounge). Refreshingly, you can actually swim at this chic retreat. Sun-loungers are arranged around the outdoor pool, while free exercise classes will help you keep fit, er, between cocktails.
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Nachtasyl
Hamburg's inner city is usually like the Marie Celeste of an evening, as people head to St Pauli to drink. Yet downtown does boast this unusual beauty, with its high-arched ceiling, embossed wallpaper, reasonably priced drinks and arty clientele.
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Nouar
A popular bar with students and other denizens of the nearby Schanzenviertel, this place has that relaxed secondhand look going on and a fondness for football during the week.
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Pit
Hamburg's first gay disco, founded more than 30 years ago, has managed to keep up with the times and is still one of the favourite clubs for men.
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Quatsch Comedy Club im Café Keese
The Keese has had a chequered career. It went from being a dance hall to pick-up bar with table telephones. Now it's a comedy club run by Thomas Hermann, a (smiling) face frequently seen on German TV.
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StrandPauli
Tuesday is tango night at this Gilligan's Island stretch of sand overlooking the heart of the busy docks. The reed-thatched shack looks a bit out of place, but the beer, cocktails and sausages hit the spot.
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Tower Bar
For a more elegant, mature evening, repair to this 14th-floor eyrie at the Hotel Hafen for unbeatable harbour views.
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Zoë 2/ Summun Bonum
The battered sofas, rough walls and old lampshades here prove that the ad hoc, secondhand look so favoured in Berlin is a Hamburg hit, too. Bottled beers and cocktails provide all the sophistication needed.
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