Pub entertainment in South America
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Salfari
This little gem of a pub has friendly service, a loyal local crowd, and lively games of poker and cacho usually going on. Try their tasty but potent homemade fruit liqueurs.
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Lord Jim
Something of a novelty for Cariocas, Lord Jim is one of several English-style pubs scattered about the Zona Sul. Darts, English-speaking waiters and a few expat beers – Guinness, Harps, Bass etc – are on hand to complete the ambience. The R$25 all-you-can-drink nights (caipirinhas and Imperial beer) get messy.
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Joy Ride Café
Probably the Best Bar in Town, ’ or so the promotion will have you believe, this wildly popular gringo-tastic cafe, restaurant and bar has everything, from dawn espressos to midnight vodkas, nightly movies to weekend dancing on tables. It’s spacious, friendly, well-run and the food is great too.
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Irish Pub
A travelers’ second home in Santa Cruz, this place has pricey beers, delicious soups and comfort food, plus tasty local specialties. It serves breakfast, lunch and dinner, though most people while the hours away drinking beer, relaxing and watching the goings-on in the plaza below.
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Café del Teatro
A free-spirited young crowd makes Café del Teatro the happening bar of the moment in laid-back Barrio Brasil. Formerly a café, it now has regular events in an old theater out the back, and a welcoming bunch of regulars mingle among the brightly decorated canvases on the wall.
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Bangalore Pub & Curry House
The spicy Indian sampler platters and juicy burgers at this English-style pub are just as good as the killer pitchers of gin & tonic. Keep company with a nightly horde of youthful locals and expats at Bangalore, run by the same masterminds behind San Telmo’s Gibraltar.
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Las Lanzas
Neon lighting and no-frills furniture that hasn’t changed much since the ’70s are part of the charm of this Ñuñoa mainstay. Rock-bottom prices mean it’s usually full right up to closing, especially in the summer, when revelers spill out onto the sidewalk terrace.
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777
You'll either love it or hate it here. If you have any airs and graces, it probably is not for you. If, however, you enjoy drinking bargain-basement booze sitting on plastic beer crates surrounded by students, punks and goths, then welcome to nirvana.
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Palos de Moguer
This popular pub serves beer made from its own brewery. There's sport on the TVs and American rock blaring from the speakers. It also serves pub grub, including nachos and calamari. Free wi-fi is available for anyone with a beer-proof laptop.
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Greenwich Pub
This supposedly English pub (No lager? No English speakers? No shepherd’s pie?) is small, dark and dungeony, with a rock-and-roll attitude. The crowd gets progressively younger and the music more up-to-date as the weekend draws near.
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La Reina Victoria
This longtime expat watering hole is a cozy spot for a drink, with a fireplace, dartboard, bumper pool, and Anglo pub ambience. There’s also decent pub fare including pizzas and fish and chips. Happy hour runs from 5pm to 7pm.
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Zalaka
Something of a Colón classic, this cozy pub on the main street would wear jeans and T-shirt if it were a person. It serves burgers and pizza, but it's better for drinks than food. There's a pool table upstairs.
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Paddy Flaherty’s
This cramped little Irish pub is packed with random memorabilia, TVs, a working train set and homesick European travelers eating excellent-value hot sandwiches. Happy hours are from 7pm to 8pm and 10pm to 10:30pm.
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Phone Box Pub
Plonking a bright-red British phone box outside is hardly the most subtle attempt to appeal to the expat community, granted, but the combination of well-pulled pints and classic pub grub works perfectly.
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Old Pub
- Lima, Peru
- Entertainment › Pub
At the far end of ‘Pizza Street, ’ this flag-draped pub has darts, a large-screen cable TV blaring sports, a few British brews (in a tin) and plenty of Cusqueña (a light lager from Cuzco) on tap.
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Flannery’s Irish Geo Pub
Guinness and Kilkenny imports help make this a popular – if somewhat cheesy – gringo watering hole. Your favorite team’s playing back at home? This is the best bet for catching the action on TV.
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O'Murphys
- Lima, Peru
- Entertainment › Pub
This Irish pub has - sadly - no Irish beer or much ale choice at all. It's nonetheless popular and less sardine-can-like than many of the hole-in-the-wall bars that abound in central Miraflores.
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Taberna Barracuda
English pub meets US sports bar, popular with all ages; the two-for-one happy hour (8pm to 10pm) makes expensive drinks (CH$2000) more reasonable. Food, including tapas, is also available.
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Saloon
The most popular bar on the Calle 51 'student street.' The cover charge includes vouchers for four beers. Up and down this street you'll find several other student-packed watering holes.
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Altillo Pub
This buzzing pub has candlelit tables, a lengthy drinks and snacks menu and comfy chairs perfect for some serious 21 de Mayo people-watching. Don’t eat here if you’re in a hurry though.
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Pim's Pub
Gets hopping into the late hours as the plethora of oversized drinks keep pouring. It also serves decent Tex-Mex food. It has a touristy vibe with mainly foreign clientele.
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Rosie O'Grady's
Rosie's is another spot for a Guinness that's got more room to breathe than its smaller compatriot Paddy's - in fact, it's usually bereft of any customers at all.
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Bogotá Beer Company
This brew pub has a second popular Zona Rosa location; both pump out American rock music and pints of beer to Colombian yuppies and the expat crowd.
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Shenanigan’s
Cariocas and sunburnt gringos mix it up over games of pool and darts at this Irish pub. Live bands play occasionally.
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