Entertainment in Andalucía
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Café Bar Las Teresas
Always busy, an inviting cool, tiled inner decor, and a location at the nexus of the Santa Cruz district; all this bodes well for the hard-to-miss Las Teresas. The tapas aren’t bad either.
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El Gato Lounge
If it's a louder ambience you're looking for, you'll find the pink party at the mega clubs and gay bars in Torremolinos. That's right, the 'in crowd' goes to Torremolinos for fun!! What had turned into a decayed symbol of a better past is now making a comeback. New bars, restaurants and clubs are opening and the area is becoming one of the major gay holiday destinations in Spain.
La Nogalera (close to Torremolinos train station) is the centre of BLGT - bi, lesbian, gay and transgendered - tourism in the province. Here, the variety of bars, pubs, clubs and discos guarantees a good time. Check out the new and trendy El Gato Lounge, where cool cats chill over a beer and a…
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Casa de la Memoria de al-Andalus
This flamenco tablao in Santa Cruz is probably the most intimate and authentic nightly flamenco show, offering a wide variety of flamenco styles in a room of shifting shadows. Space is limited to 100, so reserve tickets in advance.
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El Garlochi
Dedicated entirely to the iconography, smells and sounds of Semana Santa, the ubercamp El Garlochi is a true marvel. A cloud of church incense hits you as you go up the stairs, and the faces of baby Jesus and the Virgin welcome you into the velvet-walled bar, decked out with more Virgins and Jesuses.
Taste the rather revolting sounding cocktails Sangre de Cristo (Blood of Christ) and Agua de Sevilla, both heavily laced with vodka, whisky and grenadine, and pray they open more bars like this.
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Granada 10
A glittery converted cinema is now Granada’s top club for the glam crowd, who recline on the gold sofas and get hip-swivelling to cheesy Spanish pop tunes.
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Tetería El Harén
A large teahouse that rambles over several floors with lots of private nooks. Live music Thursday to Saturday evenings.
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Onda Pasadena
A congenial combination of older and younger audiences mingle on Tuesdays to listen to jazz, while handclapping is all the rage on Thursdays when flamenco gigs take over.
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Lechuguita
A modest nightlife zone centres on Calle Los Remedios with the ever-popular tapas bar Lechuguita .
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El Teniente Seblon
This arty, gay-friendly bar is one of the liveliest evening spots in the Barrio del Pópulo.
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Casa Anselma
If you can squeeze in past the foreboding form of Anselma (a celebrated Triana flamenco dancer) at the door, you’ll quickly realise that anything can happen in here. Casa Anselma is the antithesis of a tourist flamenco tablao, with cheek-to-jowl crowds, thick cigarette smoke, zero amplification and spontaneous outbreaks of dexterous dancing. Pure magic. (Beware: there’s no sign, just a doorway embellished with azulejos tiles.)
Anselma is in Triana about 200m from the western side of the Puente de Isabel II.
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Empresa Pagés
From the start of the season until late June/early July, nearly all the fights are by fully fledged matadors. Seats cost €32.50 to €110 but only cheap sol seats (those in the sun at the start of proceedings) may be available to those who don't hold season tickets. Most of the rest of the season, novilleras (novice bullfights) are held, with tickets costing €4 to €26. Tickets are sold in advance at Empresa Pagés and from 4.30pm on fight days at the bullring itself.
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Bar Ego
In terms of hipness and trendy places to go out, La Alameda is where it's at. The slightly run-down feeling of the area adds to the exclusivity and repels the more posh sevillanos, so the boho lot get to keep the place more or less to themselves. Bar Ego is a strange hybrid of a DJ bar, restaurant, clothes shop and art gallery, and strives for something completely different in predominantly traditional Seville. It's newly opened, Barcelona-hip, and original, and we are hoping it'll survive.
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El Jardín
A beautiful Viennese-style cafe next to palm-filled gardens behind the cathedral, full of ancient malagueños plus the odd inebriated Picasso lookalike. Art-nouveau flourishes and old photographs evoke a pleasant ambience, but not great food. Instead, come for wine or coffee and listen to some young-at-heart septuagenarian pound away on the upright piano.
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Teatro Alameda
Alameda de Hércules was once a no-go area reserved only for the city’s ‘painted ladies’, pimps and a wide range of shady characters, but the parklike strip has undergone the ‘Soho makeover’ and is now crammed with trendy bars, chic shops and the popular Teatro Alameda, which is one of the city’s best experimental theatres.
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Magister
This place caters to the more mature drinker, playing soporific background music and brewing beer on the spot to assure patrons the alcohol won't run out. The beer comes in five tasty varieties: blond rubia and tostada, the dark caramelizada and morenita, and the especial, which varies from season to season.
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Peña Flamenca La Perla
The paint-peeled Peña La Perla, set romantically next to the crashing Atlantic surf, hosts flamenco nights at 10pm most Fridays, more so in spring and summer. It's right beside the ocean just off Calle Concepción Arenal in the Barrio de Santa María, entry is free and the audience is stuffed with aficionados. It’s an unforgettable experience.
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Kelipe
Málaga’s substantial flamenco heritage has its nexus to the northwest of Plaza de la Merced. Kelipe, a flamenco centre which puts on muy puro performances Thursday to Saturday at 9.30pm; entry of €15 includes one drink and tapa – reserve ahead. Kelipe also runs intensive weekend courses in guitar and dance.
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El Perro Andalúz
A bar dedicated to the eponymous surrealist film by Buñuel and Dalí, with suitably odd decor, such as stand-up hair dryers as lamps, chairs with a large eye printed across them (but, thankfully, without being sliced by a razor, like in the movie). Live music is on most nights, just ask in advance what they are staging.
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Sala Tantra Buddha Bar
This place is worth taking a peep at even if you don't hang about. It's decorated with all the little details associated with Buddha - statues, silk screens etc. This type of décor replicates the Parisian prototype and is a fad in Spain at present - an odd theme for a drinking den! There's a small dance floor too.
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El Rincón de Michael Landon
In the midst of Granada's student life, this funny bar is dedicated to retro kitsch and the bizarrely cult star of The Little House on the Prairie. The hip bunch that hangs out here comes for the simple tapas (with names such as JR - Jamón & Roquefort), beer, and music blasting from the small stereo.
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Antique Teatro
Notorious for turning foreigners away, get your hair slicked back Sevilla-style, if you're a man, and look drop-dead gorgeous if you're a woman, and try getting into this top club, located at the Expo '92 Olympic Pavillion. In the summer, there's a torch-lit garden and cocktail sipping under the stars.
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Bodegas El Pimpi
This rambling bar is an institution in this town. The interior encompasses a warren of rooms with a courtyard and open terrace overlooking the recently renovated Roman amphitheatre. Walls are decorated with historic feria posters and photos of visitors while the enormous barrels are signed by more well-known folk, including Tony Blair and Antonio Banderas. Tapas and meals also available.
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La Otra Orilla
If you're lucky enough to be spending some of your summer in Seville, relaxed drinking in a terrace bar by the banks of the Guadalquivir is one of the best ways to see the sun go down. La Otra Orilla is blessed with a great outdoor terrace and music that buzzes hypnotically into the night.
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Puerto Oscura
An elegant and intimate cocktail lounge with plush velvet seats and secret alcoves - a great way to start the evening. It stays open until the early hours on busy summer nights and sometimes puts on live music acts. Relatively smart clothes are the order of the day. Nonsmokers beware!
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Casa Morales
Founded in 1850, not much has changed in this defiantly old-world bar, with charming anachronisms wherever you look. Towering clay tinajas (wine storage jars) carry the chalked-up tapas choices of the day. Locals sweat it out on summer nights like true sevillanos.
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