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Bar Jamaica
Zip up to El-Hana's 10th floor for fabulous views. This small bar is lit with funky blue neon, plays a mix of lounge and pop music, has tables outside, and attracts a mixed crowd of men and women, both Tunisian and foreign.
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Brasserie les 2 Avenues
This has a good pavement location for a prime view of the avenue's people parade.
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Café de Paris
This is one of the avenue's main people-watching hubs, a café with a mix of men and women and lots of outside tables.
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La Parnasse
There are plenty of cinemas, mainly showing Egyptian films, Bollywood-style action movies or soft porn, but you'll also find recent Hollywood offerings, dubbed into French. The local press has listings. Admission costs around TD3 at plush places such as La Parnasse, though older films are often cheaper.
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Le Boeuf sur le Toit
Out in the up-and-coming suburb of La Soukra 'the beef on the roof' is named after a surrealist ballet; it's a restaurant with a dance floor and terrace, and regular DJs, live gigs and Sunday jazz evenings, attracting Tunisia's most cosmopolitan crowd.
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Le Colisée
There are plenty of cinemas, mainly showing Egyptian films, Bollywood-style action movies or soft porn, but you'll also find recent Hollywood offerings, dubbed into French. The local press has listings. Admission costs around TD3 at plush places such as Le Colisée, though older films are often cheaper.
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Maison de la Culture Ibn Khaldoun
Tunis' only art-house cinema is Maison de la Culture Ibn Khaldoun.
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Oscars
The vaguely cine-themed (perhaps the name refers to the award ceremony) bar-restaurant upstairs is fun, though not for single women (the women here are generally prostitutes). There's live music and dancers at the weekend.
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Piano Bar
A good place for a refined, subdued drink, this five-star hotel bar is Art-Deco and dark-wood heaven.
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Stade Olympique
Five of the 14 soccer teams in the Tunisian first division are from Tunis, including archrivals Club Africain and Espérance Sportive de Tunisie. Both use Stade Olympique as a home ground. Matches are usually at on Sunday.
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Théâtre d'Art Ben Abdallah
This venue, in the converted stables of the Dar Ben Abdallah Museum, has theatre and cinema performances in French and Tunisian and a small café.
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Théâtre de l'Etoile du Nord
This is a fringe theatre housed in an ex-garage. There are regular plays (in French and Arabic) and concerts (from reggae to heavy metal) - check the website for forthcoming events.
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