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BB's
This blues bar in the heart of Menteng is a good place to catch live bands and meet local students and expats. Drinks are marginally cheaper here than most places.
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Blowfish Lounge
Attracts a 'too cool for school' crowd eager to sip cocktails from such an elevated position.
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Bugils
Bugils (an abbreviation of Bule Gila - crazy Westerner) in Taman Ria Senayan is packed with expats. There are tables outside and a pub atmosphere inside. Dutch beer comes as standard and the pommes frites are served in little plastic containers with mayonnaise, Amsterdam-style.
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Burgundy
Burgundy is Jakarta's most salubrious drinking haunt with spectacularly expensive cocktails, avant-garde decor, a ceiling-high cigar humidor and more beautiful people than you can shake a lemon daiquiri at.
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Café Batavia
Literally dripping in colonial-era charm and housed in an old Dutch villa in Kota, this is the kind of place that will get you talking like your grandad and consuming the strong stuff like a muscle car at a drag race. The bistro-style food is a little overpriced, but it looks great and the atmosphere is well worth writing home about.
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Centro
Another of Jakarta's huge clubs, and one that attracts international DJs on a regular basis.
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Cinnabar
Another restaurant-bar frequented by Jakarta's upwardly mobile crowd; great cocktails.
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Embassy
Embassy is one of the biggest clubs in the city, with a massive dance floor and plenty of fashionable Jakartans grooving the night away.
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Face Bar
Modern Southeast Asian bar with plenty of subdued reds and dark woods.
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Gedung Kesenian Jakarta
This theatre has a regular programme of traditional dance and drama, as well as European classical music. With great acoustics and great looks to boot, this place is the perfect setting for any serious art performance.
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Jaya Pub
Jaya Pub is a Jakarta institution with live tunes most evenings. One of the first real music pubs to open up here, this 70s survivor still tends to favour the music of its early years. A stalwart of the expat scene, the Jaya will whip you up a no-frills pub meal or just keep you topped up with beers while you nod along to the rock covers.
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Kafe Pisa
This eatery-bar has 'daggy' bands (as one expat put it) on weekends, which only add to its lively atmosphere.
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Red Square
If you love vodka, you'll love this place. Dubbed Jakarta's first vodka bar, Red Square has more of Russia's standard drink than you can drown your sorrows in; it even has a walk-in freezer for knocking back slammers. The interior is modern and chic, as is the clientele.
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Retro
In the Crowne Plaza Hotel, this slick number draws a young, hip and largely clean-cut crowd at the weekends. The dancing goes on until the wee hours, which seems to suit the punters.
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Stadium
Infamous among Jakartan clubbing circles, Stadium represents the 'dark side' of the scene, with drugs, sex and dark corners a-plenty. Expect thumping techno, banshee-style dancing and an anything-goes attitude. It stays open all weekend, but take care leaving - this is not Jakarta's safest area.
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Taman Ismail Marzuki
Jakarta's cultural showcase. There is a performance almost every night and you might see anything from Balinese dancing to poetry readings, gamelan concerts to a New Zealand film festival. The TIM monthly program is available from the tourist office, the TIM office and major hotels. Events are also listed in the Jakarta Post .
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West Pacific
West Pacific is a haunt for those with a thirst for indie/alternative music but are not interested in getting all grunged up. It's also a fine spot to mingle with Jakarta's young movers and shakers.
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