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Club Q
In a car park, this club is for those who take their dancing – to house, hip hop and R&B – more seriously than seeing and being seen. It’s at the back of the car park, on Mühleweg. Although its Ibiza nights don’t quite match the Spanish rave island’s megaclub vibe, Zürich’s club crowd see it as the next best thing. Also in the car park is Club Q’s minor cousin, the smaller club BBQ.
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Zukunft
Having resolved the problem of the complaining neighbour by finding him another apartment, this literally underground dance bar is back in full swing. Look for a modest queue (there’s no sign) and head downstairs. A broad range of electronic and other dance music keeps a mixed crowd happy. Heaven knows what the literature reading near the entrance is all about.
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Wings Airline Bar & Lounge
It caused a major scandal when former national airline SwissAir went bust in 2001, but some ex-pilots and cabin crew grabbed the initiative and kitted out this lounge bar with cutlery, crockery and even a few aeroplane seats bought at the bankruptcy auction - adding a few kitsch Hawaiian touches.
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Helsinki Hütte
Little more than a leftover hut from the area’s industrial days, the Helsinki attracts people of all walks and ages for its low-lit, relaxed band scene. Sip on Sfr5 beer and settle in for anything from the regular country nights on Sundays to soul and funk.
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X-tra Limmathaus
X-tra Limmathaus is a bar/lounge/restaurant/club complex that attracts a relaxed 20-something crowd with everything from nu-metal bands to UK garage tunes, via salsa, 80s and dance-floor jazz. You can let all your alter egos out to play on the dance floor here.
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Longstreet Bar
Run by the guy who seems to be behind half the city’s nightlife, Yves Spink, the Longstreet is a music bar with a varied roll-call of DJs coming in and out. Try to count the thousands of light bulbs in this purple-felt-lined one-time cabaret.
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Adagio
This club is for a well-dressed over-25 crowd lie just back from the northwest end of the lake. Adagio seems like a scene from a medieval thriller with its vaulted and frescoed ceiling. They play a broad range of dance music.
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Saint Germain
This is about as hip as it gets in an uptown way these days. After impeccably turned out folks have finished dining on designer blini and smoked salmon, the tables are whisked away to turn this into a heaving dance den. Enter from Rennweg.
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Café Schober
A kitsch, fairy-tale grotto of a café, with huge bouquets of flowers tied with ribbons to ceiling arches, Schober serves a serious hot chocolate (made from real schoggi instead of cocoa powder) and shouldn't be missed.
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Rote Fabrik
This once counter- cultural and now largely mainstream institution stages rock concerts, original-language films, theatre and dance performances. There’s also a bar and a restaurant. Take bus 161 or 165 from Bürkliplatz.
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Barfussbar
The Frauenbad public bath opens its doors to some refreshing nocturnal bar action. Up to 150 men are allowed into the Barfussbar. You leave shoes at the entrance – drink while you dip your feet in the water!
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Liquid
With its striped wallpaper and moulded plastic chairs in the form of boiled eggs broken in half, this is a kitsch kinda setting, with mostly lounge-oriented music nights. A groovy way to get ready for the latter half of the night.
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Mascotte
The old variety hall ‘Corso’ is now a popular club with huge windows facing Sechseläutenplatz and the lake. It’s renowned for Tuesday’s Karaoke from Hell, where punters sing punk or metal songs accompanied by a live band.
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Supermarket
Looking like an innocent little house, Supermarket boasts three cosy lounge bars around the dance floor, a covered back courtyard and an interesting roster of DJs playing house. The crowd tends to be mid-20s.
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Alte Börse
In a respectable town-centre building, hundreds of dance fanatics cram in to this recently opened club for intense electronic sessions with DJs from all over the world. They also get in occasional live acts.
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Boos Lounge
This place was packed when we stopped by, and it was early on a Monday afternoon. Slick and modern, it's a top choice for an after-work cocktail amid mod red walls, multihued lighting and a disco ball.
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Kaufleuten
An opulent art-deco theatre with a stage, mezzanine floor and bars arranged around the dance floor, Zürich’s ‘establishment’ club plays house, hip hop and Latin rhythms to a slightly older crowd.
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Oliver Twist
English-speakers gravitate towards this pub, which serves Irish, British, Australian and South African beers. It's a smoky, noisy place, often standing-room-only and somewhat of a meat market.
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Rimini Bar
The Männerbad public bath opens its doors to some refreshing nocturnal bar action. Women come in the evenings to the Rimini Bar, open in good weather only.
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Dynamo
Various spaces here lend themselves to concerts with powerful sound, anything from rock through reggae to lashings of heavy metal. There’s usually something every night.
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Seebad Enge
At trendy Seebad Enge, the bar opens until midnight when the weather is good. In the cooler months (September to April), it operates a sauna.
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Labor Bar
The epitome of retro chic, with lots of Plexiglas and diffuse coloured light. Always filled with beautiful people, Friday is Celebreighties and Saturday ’80s and ’90s night.
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Le Bal
This club is for a well-dressed over-25 crowd lie just back from the northwest end of the lake. Le Bal swings predominantly between Latin and house nights.
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