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Nightlife

What are you doing tonight? Use this guide to figure out your nightly game plan-make reservations, purchase and print tickets, and study a map on how to get to all the best spots. Find out how to locate restaurants, bars and nightclubs, theaters, concerts, and sporting events in your hometown or elsewhere. The sites we've found will help you be as hip or low-key as you see fit on any night of the week.

Nightlife Overview

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Bars and Nightclubs

Let us help you plan your night on the town. This section of the guide helps you locate low-key dives, traditional pubs, trendy bars, hot nightclubs, sexy lounges, and any other diversion you might crave. These sites are full of both professional and user opinions that can help you tailor the location(s) you select to exactly the kind of evening you're hoping to have.

Dulcinea's Insight

  • If you're looking for specific types of bars or establishments, you can find various locales online by doing a general search (for example, "San Francisco Karaoke"). You'll get listings of all the different options, which you can then check out using the review sites recommended below.
  • If you had an especially great or terrible time at a place (or just feel like sharing), consider submitting a review of your own on one of the user-review sites. The value of these sites comes from the active participation of their users.

Dulcinea's Picks

Shecky's offers reviews in a few U.S. cities: New York, San Francisco, Atlanta, Boston, Los Angeles, and Chicago. The site features a "Bar of the Day" and lists bars by category so that you can look up the type or location of any establishment. Visit the "Hot List" for lists of quirky bests-like best "Working Class Bar," or "Best Spots for Cask Beer."
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Party GPS will provide a Google map of your zip code marked with nearby bars, clubs, or liquor stores. Hover your mouse over any destination on the map, or name your location in the search results, and you'll find links for directions, reviews, and additional information. Also provided is a list of locations nearby the destination you've selected-a very useful feature if you're a diehard bar-hopper or just didn't find what you were expecting.
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World's Best Bars is a bar search tool sponsored by Jameson Irish Whiskey. Dozens of U.S. and international cities are included; the homepage for each city has a "Bar of the Moment" with user reviews. A list of links to other bars appears beside the feature, with extensive reviews and location information.
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