Entertainment in The East Coast
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Cabana Bar
This legendary music venue of the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s died in 1997, but thanks to some forward-thinking, toe-tapping folk, it’s risen from the grave. Visit its website (www.cabana.net.nz) to see who’s on, then get down there and shake your thang.
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Harstons
The place for live music and DJs. Housed in a former piano showroom which has converted surprisingly well into a music venue (good acoustics, nice dance floor), Harstons brings national and occasionally international artists to town to entertain the late-nighters. A great attempt at big-city sophistication in a city that quite possibly doesn’t appreciate it.
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Roosters Brewhouse
Roosters produces a range of naturally brewed beers ‘made with passion and a great disregard of sensible accounting practices’. Five regular beers plus a seasonal special; tasting room, tours and a sunny courtyard for supping.
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Kingfisher
This relative newcomer has set up in a grand old banking chamber. Attentive staff, music that’s not too loud, pool table and proper crispy pizza served from the joint next door.
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Loading Ramp
This lofty timber space pulls a mixed crowd of young ’uns up to high jinks, especially on the weekends when the queue can stretch well down the road. Also offers pub-style meals.
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Smash Palace
Get juiced at the junkyard. Iconic drinking den full to the gunwales with ephemera and its very own DC3 crash-landed in the garden bar. Live music most weekends.
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Rose & Shamrock
A carpeted, dark-wood, British-style boozer complete with a few Pommy drops on tap and hearty pub grub ($14 to $26). There’s live music on Saturday nights.
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Latitude Live
A slice of the Wild West in the tame east, this L-shaped bar regularly rocks out. The sham cowboy exterior is betrayed by elegant leadlight domes inside.
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Rosie O’Grady’s
Part of the Masonic megaplex, Rosie’s predictable Irishness fills in the gaps between dimly lit corners, pints of Guinness and intermittent live music.
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Soho Bar
This hip joint morphs from reputable restaurant to the place to boogie late at night. Local and occasional big-name DJs at weekends.
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Brazen Head
Poker machines compromise the vibe at this Irish bar, but the beer’s cold and the outdoor deck is a brazen spot to get through a few.
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Irish Rover
This Irish pub in a grand old bank building fills up on weekends, with occasional live music and inexpensive pub lunches and dinners.
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Century Cinema
Part of the Hawke’s Bay Museum complex, this cinema screens art-house and international films and hosts plays and classical concerts.
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Te Puka Tavern
Experience local hospitality at Te Puka Tavern, a friendly pub with cracker views and respectable burgers.
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Guffle Bar
Cool tunes, nice drinks and genial pros behind the bar. Ingredients that woo the town’s sophisticates through the doors.
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Poverty Bay Club
Look out for the special occasions when this club at Café 1874 is opened up to live bands and DJs.
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Thirsty Whale
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Shed 2
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Gintrap
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