Entertainment in Arequipa
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Las Quenas
An exception to the rule, this traditional peña features performances almost nightly starting around 9pm. The music varies, although música folklórica predominates. It also serves decent arequipeño food starting at 8pm.
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Déjà Vu
With a rooftop terrace overlooking the church of San Francisco, this eternally popular haunt has a long list of crazy cocktails and a delicious happy hour every evening. After dark, decent DJs keep the scene alive on weekdays and weekends alike.
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La Quinta
Another good spot for local food and melodic folklórica music. Live bands are featured everyday during the high season (June to August) when the place fills up for lunch, but it’s potluck as to whether you get live music on other days.
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Retro Bar
In the same alley as Forum Rock Cafe, this rock ’n’ roll bar is a good spot to get the night going. The drink menu offers old favorites to sip on, and the building pulsates with live ’80s and ’90s music Thursdays through Saturdays.
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Forum Rock Cafe
It’s a gutsy Latin dance club with a thing for bamboo and waterfalls, and is currently the place to be seen on weekend nights. In the same building, Zero Bar & Pool is a busy nightspot with pool tables and spacious booths.
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Cusco Coffee Company
This Starbucks-style Peruvian coffee shop has the most chatty baristas in town selling sugary baked goods and a full menu of espresso drinks made from beans ground on the spot. There is also a wi-fi hot spot here.
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Al Krajo
Latin music blares through the barred windows of this hole-in-the-wall from opening until closing. It’s a decent place to sip a happy-hour pisco sour (grape brandy cocktail) and pester passers-by.
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Istanbul
Owned by the same folks as El Turko, this Middle Eastern–themed bar with stained-glass windows and overstuffed couches offers exotic liquor concoctions, beers and jet-fuel coffee.
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La Troica
Next door to La Quinta, La Troica also has food and a variety of live music, including Afro-Peruvian and Latin, in addition to more traditional folklórica sounds.
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Dady’o Disco Pub & Karaoke
On the Plaza de Armas, raucous Dady’o Disco Pub & Karaoke throws open its doors for go-go dancing, live bands and digital karaoke, plus wickedly cheap beers.
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Boulevard Café
Just a few doors south of Las Quenas, the contemporary Boulevard Café has live local indie music acts with no cover charge from Thursday to Sunday nights.
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Farren’s Irish Pub
Tucked behind the cathedral, this touristy Irish-themed watering hole is the place to go for deliciously cheap happy-hour pints and sports on satellite TV.
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Café Art Montréal
This smoky, intimate little bar with live bands playing on a stage at the back would be equally at home as a bohemian student hangout on Paris’ Left Bank.
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Kibosch
This hectic club has no shortage of bars and dance space, and plays an energetic mix of salsa and rock music.
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Av Dolores
Beyond the tourist haunts, the hottest local action is to be had at nightclubs strung along Av Dolores .
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Cineplanet Arequipa 7
Showing blockbuster movies in a shopping mall just a short taxi ride from the center.
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