Bar entertainment in Lisbon
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Fonte da Pipa
A hip tiled bar, this has craggy, cavelike rooms and comfy seats.
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Noobai Café
Three words: Lisbon’s best-kept secret. Though it’s next to Miradouro de Santa Catarina, you don’t realise this bar is here until you descend the steps and a terrace unfurls before you. The vibe is laid-back, the music funky jazz and the views – wow the views! – magical, sweeping from the castle to Cristo Rei.
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Pavilhão Chinês
Pavilhão Chinês is an old curiosity shop of a bar with oil paintings and model spitfires dangling from the ceiling, and cabinets brimming with glittering Venetian masks and Action Men. Play pool or bag a comfy armchair to nurse a port or beer. Prices are higher than elsewhere, but such classy kitsch doesn’t come cheap.
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Havana
The skinny-jean set rock up at this Cuban bar for hip-wiggling to Latin rhythms and cuba libre (rum, lime and cola) by the bucket. Skip the hit-and-miss menu and head straight for the dance floor. The glass walls offer superlative views of the Tejo and Ponte Vasco da Gama.
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Real República de Coimbra
Students flock to this laid-back watering hole, recreating a Coimbra tavern with its stone floor, wooden benches and white tiles. Note the sketches and doodles of past punters dangling from the ceiling. It occasionally hosts gigs by up-and-coming Portuguese bands.
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House of Vodka
This ice-blue bar inebriates locals with 300 different types of vodka. Purists go for Russian ones, while adventurous tipplers sample varieties like potato and fig. It also serves tasty Portuguese food laced with – you guessed it – vodka. Nostrovia!
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Taberna e Artes
Ideal for quaffing a cold one and nattering with the bearded owner Antônio, Taberna e Artes is an eccentric little bar full of dog-eared poetry books and Franco-era posters. Note the mini spitfires above the bar and vinyl placemats.
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Crew Hassan
Grungy Crew Hassan smells like teen spirit. Alternative types dig its graffiti, threadbare sofas, cheap veggie fare and free internet. Its line-up spans films, gigs, exhibitions and DJs playing music from reggae to minimalist techno.
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The Loft
Hipsters love the ultraglam design of this dockside newbie – think violet lighting, polka-dot walls, beanbags, primary-colour cube stools and mirrors for slyly checking your look. Grab a caipirinha and join the house party.
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Tuareg
Throw pillows, flickering candles and Arabian music set the mood at this atmospheric drinking den. In addition to cocktails and ambience, Tuareg serves up several dozen teas, waterpipes and Saturday-night belly dancers.
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Foxtrot
By the same designer as Pavilhão Chines, this splendidly stately place feels like it has been here since the 1940s (actually only since the '80s), with low lighting, staid sofas, oriental silks and rambling rooms.
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Bicaense
Indie kids have a soft spot for this chilled Santa Catarina haunt, kitted out with retro radios, projectors and squishy beanbags. DJs spin house to the preclubbing crowd and the back room stages occasional gigs.
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Hawaii
Chavs and bootylicious 18- to 30-somethings flock to loud and flirty Hawaii, one of a clan of similar dockside joints. Cheap mojitos and Latino hip-wiggling fuel the party under the giant surfboard.
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Majong
Bairro Alto’s gay-friendly cabbage patch kid, Majong oozes shabby chic with pak-choi lights, deep-red walls and school chairs. Mojitos flow as DJs spin minimalist techno, rock and reggae.
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Bar Marroquino
The Arabian Nights-inspired 'Moroccan Bar' provides a cosy setting for smoking banana- or cherry-flavoured tobacco out of large waterpipes. Look for the blue lantern out the front.
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Adega Machado
Filipe de Arajo Machado runs this fado house, started by his fadista mother and father. Clientele is largely groups, but there is a good and lively atmosphere.
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British Bar
Resembling an early-20th-century railway bar, this bottle-lined watering hole has an old-fashioned clientele and a backwards clock. There’s even a resident shoeshiner.
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Largo Luís de Camões
Bars cluster around Largo Luís de Camões, and tend to be publike, loud and lively and stuffed with a good-time crowd that gets crazy after a round of golf.
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Ginja d’Alfama
Tucked down a narrow alley, this hole-in-the-wall bar packs a cherry punch with ginjinha (€1 a pop). Natter with locals as those shots keep coming…
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Ginjinha Rubi
Squeeze into this hole-in-the-wall bar to natter with locals over a ginjinha or three and admire the azulejos.
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Miradouro da Graça
There are brilliant views from this terrace, with soothing music during the day that gets heavier the later it gets.
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Ginjinha da Ribeira
Get your predinner ginjinha fix on the terrace of this dinky bar opposite Cais do Sodré.
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Esplanada Rainha
For sundowners with a sea view, head to this outdoor place overlooking Praia da Rainha beach.
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Xentra
This cellar bar has a vaguely medieval feel with stone walls and an arched ceiling.
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