Entertainment in The Visayas
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Bo’s Coffee Club
A super popular Cebuano franchise that makes genuine top-notch espresso along with the usual mocha, latte and frappé selections. A favourite with both students and business types, this is a good air-con escape from the streets and there’s free wi-fi with any hot drink. There’s another outlet on Pres Osmeña Blvd and a third at Ayala Center.
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Wineshop
With a mixed crowd of Filipino and foreign clientele, the Wineshop is a convivial and unpretentious Spanish-owned wine bar. If you’re excited by the idea of genuine tapas (P40 to P60), you’ll be disappointed by the sardinas (straight from the tin) and bemused by the inclusion of kinilaw (Filipino-style ceviche) and sisig (a sizzling plate of grilled pig jowl bits). The real steal is the house red (P60 a carafe), which is eminently drinkable.
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Sideline Garden Restaurant
A large and atmospheric seafood resto-bar under a spacious pagoda behind Fuente Osmeña.
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Paseo
Not so much a nightclub as a night precinct, Paseo is a vast semi-outdoor space fronted by a market area and bordered by 20 independently owned bars all competing for attention. See how far you can crawl your way around in a single night, but don’t forget to write the name of your hotel on the back of your hand. On Friday nights the party heats up at 10pm; on Saturdays it kicks off as early as 8pm. Get there earlier for cheap eats – most of the bars have short-order kitchens. A taxi from uptown will cost about P60 and take 15 minutes.
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Ratsky
A smooth bar where hip young things head to at night for a drink (San Miguel around P70) and to hear live music. Pasta, sushi, burgers and oysters are on the menu. Enter by the door 50m south of the corner of Mindanao Ave and Bohol St. If Ratsky doesn't do it for you, there are other bars in Ayala. Dress code applies and the admission price entitles you to one free beer.
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Wineshop
Cheery, welcoming and unpretentious, with a mixed crowd of Filipino and foreign clientele, this Spanish-owned place is hands down our favourite Cebu City hang-out. There's no videoke or blaring sound system, just the convivial hum of conversation. The kicker is the wine selection, including an eminently drinkable, reasonably priced Spanish house red.
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Ratsky
A smooth bar where hip young things head at night for a drink and some live music. Pasta, sushi, burgers and oysters are on the menu. Enter by the door 50m (164ft) south of the corner of Mindanao Ave and Bohol St. If Ratsky doesn't do it for you, there are other bars in Ayala. Dress code applies and the admission price entitles you to one free beer.
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Sun City
Cebu City has its fair share of universities, hence student-friendly places like Sun City. Tarpaulin ceiling, white plastic tables and chairs, acoustic live sets, pool tables, reasonably priced beer and, of course, it also has students. It's diagonally opposite the Golden Peak Hotel.
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Sun City
Cebu City has its share of universities, hence places like Sun City exist. Tarpaulin ceiling, white plastic tables and chairs, acoustic live sets, pool tables, reasonably priced beer (San Miguel around P30) and, of course, students. It's diagonally opposite the Golden Peak.
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Oops Bar
The perennial favourite for its cocktails, shooters and the famous Baileys Shake. Can’t find your feet to get home? There are some good-value nipa rooms out the back (from P800) if you can handle the noise.
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Club Paraw
Club Paraw is a great place to drink, eat, and most of all just veg out on the cushions on the beach. It serves Jamaican food such as goat curry and is next to Pier One, another hard-partying beachside club.
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Bom Bom Bar
Bom Bom Bar is a hip little laid-back rustic bar, its attitude clear from that universal signifier of coolness - Bob Marley posters. Jam sessions with local drummers often start up around 23:00.
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Grapevine
A sophisticated little place, stacked with bottles of wine on one wall, with comfortable indoor and outdoor seating. It also serves mixed drinks and desserts.
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21 Bar
The very stylish 21 Bar is a hardy perennial, although the atmosphere tends more towards that of an upmarket restaurant.
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Loft
Loft is reckoned as the best choice for its alternative dance music, slick bar, mezzanine and outdoor balcony area.
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Moondog's Shooter
Moondog's Shooter, along with Café Cocomangas, is a sprawling, tropical nightclub with plenty of drinking and entertainment.
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Café Cocomangas
Café Cocomangas, along with Moondog's Shooter, is a sprawling, tropical nightclub with plenty of drinking and entertainment.
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Julio’s Buffet & Jazz Joint
This little place near Alejandro’s Hotel is a drinks-with-live-jazz venue from Thursday to Sunday; music starts at 9pm.
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Cueballs
For something lively, head to the corner of Burgos and Santo Niño Sts, where you’ll find this loud and busy nightclub.
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Bo’s Coffee
An outlet of this popular Visayan chain cafe is right in the centre of town. Wi-fi is available for P100 per hour.
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Wave Disco
Wave Disco is an underground club with live music and an around P100 cover after 22:00.
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Charlh's Bar
Charlh's Bar is a little shack right on the sand with live music until late nightly.
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Bo’s Coffee Club
This is a Starbucks clone with wi-fi, good cakes and sandwiches, and comfy chairs.
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