Trabzon Entertainment

  1. Beer Time

    Another hostelry in the same vein as the Şişman, but spread over two whole storeys, with wooden floors and a largely male crowd just avoiding that spit'n'sawdust feel.

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  2. Bordo Mavi

    This atmospheric bar-café hangout is the clubhouse of Trabzonspor, the beloved local football team. The garden seating is popular with a buzzy young crowd in summer but, rather unsportingly, the whole place closes by .

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  3. Café Life

    Choose Life: just opposite the Bordo Mavi, this wood-floored café-bar offers a beguiling mix of fast food and folky live music.

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  4. Keyif Coffee & Tea Store

    Achieving a rare level of hauteur amid its hefty leather armchairs and tartan wallpaper, the Keyif offers no fewer than 200 varieties of hot beverage to tantalise tea-loving tastebuds.

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  5. Şişman Efes Pub

    Now this is a proper pub: wooden tables, doodling barman, music drowned out by the general hubbub and the eponymous Efes beer served in 2.5L towers (around €8 ) on request.

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  6. Stress Café

    Misnomers don't come more ironic than this: whether you're chilling out with a nargileh on the back terrace or funking it up to live music in the downstairs bar, stress will be the last thing on your mind here.

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