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El Nivel
If you get a chance, try to hear a rousing traditional banda sinaloense – a boisterous brass band unique to the state of Sinaloa. Watch for announcements posted around town or broadcast from slow-moving cars with speakers mounted on top, and check out the weekend performances at El Nivel, a cantina-style bar in the Fiesta Land complex.
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Blue Chairs Beach Club
Blue Chairs Beach Club is the most popular, visible gay beach bar, with droves of gay couples enjoying the sun’s ubiquitous rays and cool drinks. A great place to start, it’s located at the south end of Playa de los Muertos.
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Torino
Expats patronize this bar, run by an US-French couple, for everything from breakfast to late-night drinks. If you’ve had too many, don’t venture out back without a flashlight – the 75-year-old crocodile (Fluffy) is no hallucination.
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Club Maeva
Club Maeva is popular for its twin clubs, Disco Moorea and Palapa Tropical, between them offering everything from disco to cumbia to traditional banda music.
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Lorna
Eclectically decked out in red lights, chandeliers and big-screen TVs, this bustling, high-ceilinged resto-pub in the heart of Old Mazatlán features live music from Wednesday through Saturday.
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Pie in the Sky
Voted Vallarta’s best bakery year after year, this little hole-in-the-wall specializes in pies but also brews a good cup of joe and lets customers linger over the free wi-fi .
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El Faro
Located at the top of the Pacifica Resort and accessed by a gondola, El Faro has amazing views and live jazz music Wednesday through Saturday. Reservations required.
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Antropology
It’s raining men at this sizzling dance mecca and male-stripper venue with its dark, intimate rooftop patio. Women are unapologetically disallowed.
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Kopado’s Music Bar
With good drink specials and occasional live music, this local favorite occupies a palapa-covered perch in Ixtapa’s main shopping center.
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Australia Bar
The long bar of this upstairs pool room, celebrating Down Under chic, is dotted with cool youths and grungy foreigners throwing drinks back.
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Bandido’s
On weekend nights, this Mexican restaurant opens its floor for dancing to live salsa and cumbia interspersed with DJ mixes.
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Vitrolas Bar
This gracious gay bar in a beautifully restored building is romantically lit and, overall, more button-down than mesh muscle-shirt.
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Burros Bar
This palapa-style beachfront spot is famous for its gargantuan margaritas, free-flowing buckets of beer and perfect sunset views.
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Piper Lover Blues Bar
An upstairs joint, directly overlooking the ocean, that offers live blues and rock Wednesday through Sunday in high season.
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El Alebrije
A fog machine, banks of computerized lights, pop, rock, house, salsa and merengue, plus an open bar: what more do you want?
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Rocktavio’s
With its tough motorcycle-bar look and loud live music Friday and Saturday (from 10pm), this is the place to rock.
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Christine
Christine has the sizzling sound and light systems you’d expect from one of the most popular discos in town.
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Beli Pub
A young crowd frequents this recently opened pub near Plazuela Machado for Guinness and other tap brews.
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Show Bar Jarro
A down-to-earth, gay-friendly disco with pool tables and lagoon views, near Yucatán.
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EtniKafé
Adjacent to the Casa Etnika gallery, this little café brews a mean cappuccino.
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