For instagrammable photos and their whiskies
YVETTE DE MARSEILLE
Located right next to the city center, this gastro-bar attracts everyone's attention thanks to being in an old remodeled garage decorated with taste. Its hook is the wines and tapas and that special ability to transform into a nightclub when the clock strikes the witching hour.
HOTEL N'VY
This Hotel it is unique in the city for its young character, casual but still luxurious . His entire staff wears Diesel, so it's no surprise that his bar has gained some late-night fame for its cocktail menu. And it is that the new generation asks (we ask) being able to sit like a good stranger in front of a good drink in a hotel , listening to good music (resident DJ included) and pretending that life bleeds to death at every sunrise. See what happens.
The city of Geneva with tonic, please
COFFEE DU LYS
Everything Real and majestic about the name remains in its logo. ** The Café du Lys is the eye of the hurricane of the student night **, that bar for everything to drink from literary coffees to craft beers or shots with grandiloquent names . a little hipster, It has that almost obligatory menu with tapas and portions that quickly gives way to the concerts and the night.
LE KRAKEN
At Le Kraken they have been living on Instagram since long before smartphones were invented. The sharp colors of their small plates are just an oasis , because here what he calls is the warm reflection of his whiskeys. And it is that the popular and Erasmus Rue de l'Ecole-de-Médecine It also has stools where you can feel like a gentleman before indulging in a disco delirium.
Paying homage to the Genoese cups
LA RESERVE HOTEL
The most luxurious resort in Geneva is not only for foreigners who have the money as punishment and who spend a few seasons at the foot of the Alps. Its bars have gained local fame and attract Genevans who love the most exclusive atmosphere. This translates into a summer terrace where it is embarrassing not to ask for anything other than champagne and in winter a bar located in the largest private skating rink in the city. Or as they call it: Saturday night ice fever.
The luxury in the glass, please
PALAIS MASCOTTE
The Palais Mascotte is the heart of Rue de Berne, the most popular and with the most nightlife in the Pâquis neighborhood. Since 1887 it has been animating in its own way the skeletons that make a pilgrimage here in search of its nightly burlesque shows and, above all, its disco. And all with a vintage atmosphere, of a palace of sin closed for renovations, nostalgically but without giving up self-parody (see: Ladies who DJ with dignity) .
Burlesque, lots of velvet and glasses
LE ROI UBU
Few, if not anyone, know ** the secret of a really crappy joint that is always rocked **. Located in the center of the city, it is considered as the oldest pub in all of Geneva. Perhaps his grace lies in this, although he never gives up the looping spiral of music trembling in his speakers. And then there's Belgian Kwaak beer , very popular among its parishioners and that is usually the cause and at the same time the solution (as Homer would say) of many problems near Lake Geneva.
TCHERGA
The Tcherga bar and his balkan music it is one of those multicultural oddities that you can find getting lost in Geneva. Of course, you have to like the strident timbre of the most gypsy instruments. The environment? Let's say Kusturica would feel at home here.
THE COCKTAIL ATELIER
Your name leaves little room for imagination but his combinations brim with creativity. This in the heart of Eaux Vives , which guarantees a normally high-ranking public that drags itself here to give the sinhueso without rest. The little corners, the sofas and the reasonable prices provide the rest, although it is a place for “the first”, to start a night tour with high expectations.
Well that: delicious cocktails
CHAT NOIR
This bar houses one of the most famous concert halls in the city . Always with that intimate vibe that attracts less flirtatious singers and more sensitive musicians. Its walls speak of its long history and the distinguished visitors who have had their microphones . Meanwhile, at its bar you can order anything, from those fruity cocktails that novices like to the barman's personal bets such as the double breast (rum with essence of cinnamon, lime and mango puree) .
JAVA-CLUB
The Java Club is the nightclub of luxury, chic atmosphere and Don Perignon where every Genevan teenager dreams of entering one day. Here contracts are closed, friendships are made and Ibiza is dreamed of in winter. His detractors criticize his excesses, his diamonds and how unreal this world is where a decent drink hardly falls below €80 . It is the price of VIP that you have to pay once in your life, even if it is just to experience it.
You will not be able to enter here without a credit card
LA GRAVIÈRE
Is old petrochemical plant it was ceded by the City Council to a youth association. The consequence? Well, the party, father, the well-organized mess, where there is no lack of discourse in favor of local culture or social projects . But in this context of nocturnal expedition, what matters is meeting international DJs who have surprises for all tastes on nights where beauty comes from bodies, not space.
L'USINE
Don't bring your in-laws here . This cultural association took over an old warehouse on the banks of the Rhône to turn it into a cultural space for the most underground currents of the city. Its decorative leitmotif is the graffiti and while on the other side of the bar are rude tattooed men who talk about the second generation, about those children of immigrants who reject posh Geneva, banks, watches and UNs. And in the glass? The least, because in L'Usine you learn that cities, no matter how much they are called after a drink, have to be defined by their inhabitants.
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The club of the old petrochemical plant