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Bar Icon
A newcomer on the scene, Icon is an ultra-stylish cocktail bar decked out in designer shades of olive green and chocolate brown, that pulls in a mixed crowd of gay and straight, male and female, young and old, with comfy sofas and laid-back tunes.
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Café Bar Europa
Café Bar Europa is super small, but in a good, cosy way, with exposed brickwork, album covers, and books scattered around. At night it metamorphoses into a bar, where there are poetry readings, DJs, comedy, and acoustic live jazz, blues, folk and rock.
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Cantaloop
Set in a lovely old red-brick building, Cantaloop is a terminally hip designer lounge bar, with lots of polished wood and leather sofas, an extensive cocktail menu and a Havana cigar bar. There's also a nice outdoor terrace for summer-evening drinks.
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Cayo Arms
This is a real-ale pub with warm atmosphere and a loyal band of regulars. It serves a fine range of Tomos Watkins real ales, plus guest beers such as Old Speckled Hen, and is filled to bursting on match days.
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City Arms
A friendly, unpretentious, old-fashioned pub with a classics-crammed jukebox, the City Arms is predictably packed out on rugby weekends (the Millennium Stadium is right across the road), but offers a pleasant place for a quiet pint on weekday afternoons.
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Club X
Cardiff's biggest gay club has two dance floors, with a great chill-out bar and covered beer garden upstairs. Wednesday night is student night, with cheap drinks, but Saturday is the big one, with chart hits out front and dirty house in the back room. It's also open on the last Sunday of the month ( to ).
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Cottage
A long, narrow pub with a traditional atmosphere - wooden floor, brass drip trays, polished mahogany bar - the Cottage attracts a mix of characters, from weary shoppers to local office workers, and offers guest real ales as an alternative to the ubiquitous Brains.
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Creation
Creation is a huge restaurant, bar and nightclub, all inside a Victorian dark-red brick building. Lunches are good, and the nightclub is cheesy but fun, with DJs talking over the music, and an age range from 18 to at least 65.
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Eli Jenkins
Named after the vicar in Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood, this is a trad-style pub set in a Victorian terrace, with wood-panelling, bookcases and a big screen for the rugby. It's a popular spot for an after-show drink for performers at the Wales Millennium Centre across the square.
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Exit Bar
A friendly, attitude-free bar with DJs filling the two dance floors with retro disco hits and dance music every night of the week till or . The Exit is another popular, long-standing gay venue.
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Glee Club
The Glee Club is another comedy chain providing a similar mix of acts.
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Goat Major
Solidly traditional, with armchairs, a fireplace, and lip-smacking Brains Dark real ale on tap, the Goat Major (ask the bar staff about the name) is an oasis of old-fashioned calm amid the noise and bustle of trendy city-centre bars.
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Jongleurs
This well-established comedy chain stages regular stand-up shows on Friday and Saturday nights, with a trademark mix of well-known names, regulars and raw newcomers.
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Kings Cross
Prominently positioned at one end of Cardiff's café quarter, the recently tarted-up KX (as its known) is a stalwart of the gay scene, with cabaret on Wednesday, DJs on Friday and Saturday, and karaoke on Sunday
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Moloko
An industrially decorated vodka bar with good cocktails and Russian lettering on the walls - so you don't forget the theme after too many shots. Moloko is a relaxing place with a good mixed crowd, and the music ranges from Motown to hip-hop.
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Salt
A huge, modern, nautical-themed bar (ocean-liner décor, blue-and-white drapes, bits of driftwood, pictures of the Welsh coast) with plenty of sofas and armchairs for lounging around and, best of all, a first-floor open-air terrace with a view of the yachts out in the bay.
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Tafarn @ NosDa
A cool little bar attached to an upmarket backpacker hostel, Tafarn has outdoor tables on a riverside terrace, a big screen for watching all the rugby action and an all-day menu of tasty Welsh snacks.
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Toucan Club
This funky little space, all bold colours and swirly mosaics, is the centre of Cardiff's independent club scene, promoting funk, world music and cutting-edge hip hop, as well as exploring new beats and staging live dance acts, acoustic acts and performance poets. Well worth a look.
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Wish Club
Wish is the place where all those hen nights are headed - cool dance floor, glamorous dress code, massive sound system, and a string of top-name touring DJs (think Goldie, Axwell, Tidy Boys, Seb Fontaine, X-press2, Layo and Bushwacker).
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