Lagos Entertainment

  1. Atlantic Bar

    Head here if you want to hang with the fashionable Lagos kids. There's great music, a few bar snacks and live bands play at weekends. It's very cool.

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  2. Bacchus

    This popular place is on the busy Awolowo Rd in Ikoyi. On Saturday nights a varied crowd turns up, dressed to the nines, to dance the night away. Put on your best dancing shoes and join them for a boogie.

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  3. Cowrie Restaurant & Bar

    Immaculately put together, the bar at B-Jays hotel is a classy place for a drink. It's very laid back, with squashy sofas and low lighting, all the better for sampling the good array of whiskies. Only the terrace on the busy main road feels a bit out of place.

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  4. Motherlan'

    This place is owned by Lagbaja, who mixes groovy jazz with African drums, and is always hidden under a traditional Yoruba mask (the name simultaneously means anybody and nobody). Lagbaja plays the last Friday of the month (cover charge payable). Motherlan' also hosts regular comedy nights, but the mix of Pidgin English and Yoruba slang can be hard to follow.

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  5. Muson

    Opposite the museum, Muson puts on regular plays and classical music concerts - call for details.

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  7. New Afrika Shrine

    The spiritual home of Afrobeat, Fela Kuti's original Shrine was burned down, but this replacement is run by his son Femi, who plays on Fridays and Sundays when he's in town (cover charge payable). It's a huge shed, but the music blows the roof off.

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  8. Nimbus

    Part of the Nimbus art gallery, and cultivating the same slightly Bohemian air, this is a lovely place for a drink - mellow in the day and happening at night. At weekends there's usually live music, so there's a cover charge to get in.

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  9. Pat's Place

    A Lagos institution, this is an expat haunt, decorated with rugby shirts and serving up cold beer and Guinness with steak and kidney pie and other tastes of home, with the only visible Nigerians being the barmaids. The sort of place you'll either love or hate.

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  10. Silver Bird Cinema

    For Hollywood, rather than Nollywood, blockbusters.

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  11. Tribes Bar & Grill

    This steakhouse stays open late and gets plenty of expat traffic after the restaurants close. There's a popular, extended happy hour on Friday night when all drinks are half price.

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