Entertainment in Honduras
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Driftwood Café
A way’s west of the ferry dock, this ‘yachtie’ hangout has decent pub grub. Try the ‘Monkeyball, ’ made with home-crafted Kahlua and a few other secret ingredients.
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Café Welchez
Although it looks like money, the Café Welchez is a relatively affordable place.
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Ten Napel Café
This cozy coffee shop is perfect if you need a caffeine or sugar fix (or both).
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Café San Rafael
This tiny eatery 1½ blocks south of Parque Central sells coffee from the family finca.
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Cinefilia
Shows movies in a bar setting.
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Monesterio
This is the preferred club for La Ceiba's moneyed, mostly 20-something crowd. The turreted exterior says King Arthur more than John the Baptist, but the inside is pure LA, with a raised dance floor, mezzanine VIP area and sleek tables and high stools in a cavernous bar area. Friday is usually ladies' night (free entrance, free rum and free domestic beer). Regguetón rules, of course, but the DJ usually plays some hip-hop, reggae and even merengue now and then. Dress sharp.
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Harley Davidson Café
There aren't enough bikers in Honduras to make a real biker bar, but you get the general idea here. Outdoor tables, buckets of Port Royal and 2-for-1 bar food make for an everyman atmosphere, which can be a welcome alternative to the too-cool scene elsewhere. Friday nights feature live classic rock shows, complete with loaner Harleys on a trailer outside and gyrating Harley girls.
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Max Bar & Grill
A number of restaurants around town stay open late on weekends for bar service. A good place to start out the night, Max Bar & Grill has cheap beers and rum and tequila drinks, plus late-night food service if you get the munchies - pizza, sandwiches, even Sloppy Joes. It's a short walk from the other clubs.
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Tavos
A hacienda-style recreational area by day, Tavos becomes a hopping karaoke bar and discotheque by night. It's an upscale place that gets packed on weekends - the DJ gets the crowd going. Just 300m south of the parque central, it's an easy downhill walk or even easier uphill moto-taxi ride.
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Spot
San Pedro Sula's only openly gay club, the dance floor is not only jam packed with men on the dance floor, but also swinging around a stripper pole and shaking it in a cage. Disco and Top 40 rule this place - Madonna, of course, features prominently. Spot is straight-friendly.
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Ibiza
An unspoken meeting place for lesbians, this lounge-disco has big couches and lots of tables to kick back, drink and talk. On weekends, the floor gets crowded with dancers moving to a good mix of Latin rock, salsa, merengue and regguetón.
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Brick Oven Pizza
Brick Oven Pizza shows recent-release movies almost every night, usually at 5pm and 7pm. Schedules are on those white flyers plastered all over town. The pizza here is decent, but overpriced. It’s past Twisted Toucan.
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Foster’s Waterfront Bar & Grill
One of two bars-on-a-pier jutting out over the water, Foster’s has occasional live music and the best dancing in town. It’s a bit ‘gangster, ’ as one local put it, but you can’t beat the location.
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Teatro Nacional Manuel Bonilla
Hosts a variety of performing-arts shows, including plays, dance and music. Built in 1912, the theater’s interior was inspired by the Athens Theatre of Paris, making it a very enjoyable place to attend a performance.
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Sundowners
This is a small, Jimmy Buffet kind of bar right on the beach at Half Moon Bay. The view makes it a popular place to start the night, before migrating downstream. Happy hour is from 5pm to 7pm. It’s across from Native Sons.
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La Casona
Two blocks off the main drag, this huge wood-paneled building may look more like a ski lodge than a nightclub, but it’s a favorite destination for La Ceiba’s late-20s and early-30s set.
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Oceano Cantina
A realtor- turned-restaurateur from California opened this palapa -roofed cantina in early 2009. It was wildly popular when we passed through. There are good tacos and plenty of hammocks.
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Xibalba’s Café Bar
If this is the afterlife, things are looking up. Borrowing its name from the Maya underworld, Xibalba is a loud, lively pub with a young vibe and great music, and even live performances sometimes.
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Restaurante la Palapa
In front of the Quinta Real hotel, this breezy bar-restaurant has a large dancing area on one side, wooden tables encircling a bar on the other, and the namesake palapa roof high above.
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Espresso Americano
The cappuccino and mocha here are great, but cold 'frapuccinos' don't have much zing. Whatever you order, take it into the park as the tables are usually packed with old guys yammering.
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Super Jugos
The motto here is ‘the best licuados in Honduras’ and who are we to disagree? ( Licuados is a fresh fruit drink, blended with milk or water.)
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Las Piscinas
A hacienda-style recreational area by day, Las Piscinas becomes a hopping karaoke bar and discotheque by night. If it's not happening, check out Papa Chango across the way.
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Klein Bohemia
If what you are looking for is a great time – and to learn a bit about national culture – then this is the spot. There’s no cover charge, and live music most nights.
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Discos
Tela has several discos, most clustered on 11a Calle NE. Some can get a little rough though, so ask around about the current situation before you venture into one.
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Bar in the Bush
It’s popular, but this place can get rowdy. Lone travelers should take care at night, since the pathway to the bar is unlit. It’s past the Mango Inn.
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