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Bars in Lausanne
Bars in Lausanne
Le Bourg, Rue de Bourg 51, ☎ +41 21 625 07 07, . 6PM - 2AM. A great place to see up-and-coming jazz and performance oriented acts from all over the continent. The place is a real theater with a tiny bar in front, and the booking is simply amazing for a room which can hold maybe 30 people tops, with acts ranging from French accordeon jazz or gypsy jazz to Coco-Rosie-like "new folk" to famed Chicago and NYC djs. You would not be alone in asking how they could possibly pull that off (a little bird mentions that they are underwritten by the city) 4 Chf. �
La Bossette, pl. du Nord 4, ☎ +41 21 320 15 85, . restaurant and bar, relaxed atmosphere, reasonable prices and good beer. �
Café Luna, Place de l'Europe 7 (just at the top of the M2 Metro line), . Open Tuesday through Saturday nights until 2AM. A jet-set place, Luna specializes in atmosphere. The place is at its best during the week when DJs spin the best in period and contemporary Easy-Listening hip. Weekend evenings tend toward standing-room-only, but what do you expect? There is a limited food menu, which includes a dozen or so Bruschetta possibilities. 3.50-7.00Chf for a beer or a glass of wine.. �
Bar Tabac, rue Beau-Séjour 7, ☎ +41 21 312 33 16. This friendly café has a huge selection of Belgian beers and French wines. The decor is understated hip, the climate is calm, and the clientele is a very pleasant mix. It also has non-smoking days. �
Café Couronne d'Or, Rue des Deux-Marches 13, ☎ +41 21 311 38 17, . Another fine place for a drink over your master's thesis, or a conversation with friends, the Couronne packs them in on a Saturday afternoon or Sunday evening. Cosy old bar in a small alley between Riponne and Tunnel. Sunday & Tuesday 4PM - 12PM, Wednesday 8AM - 12PM, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 8AM - 1AM. Non smoking till 6PM. �
Café du Château (Brasserie Artisanale), Place du Tunnel 1, ☎ +41 21 312 60 11, . Open from 5PM every day. The Brasserie offers a number of beers made on the spot including a speciality, 100% natural ginger beer. They also have a kitchen offering a range of tasty pizzas at reasonable prices. Note the signs that say "service au bar", which means you have to order at the bar or you'll wait some time to be noticed and served. A pint of ginger (or other) beer will set you back 5 Chf, a pizza 15 Chf. Pizza and homemade beer until 4AM on weekends. �
Bleu Lézard, rue Enning 10, . The Bleu Lézard is a popular student hangout with a restaurant-café-bar upstairs and a dancefloor in the basement. There's usually live music on Wednesdays and DJs on the weekends. Perfect place for a late Sunday brunch. 4 Chf for a beer.. �
Le Lounge (Chateau d'Ouchy), Place du Port 2 (Near the end of Metro M. The Lounge is on the east side of the Chateau, facing the Vaudois Alps''2). Closed for remodeling. Will re-open in 2008.. ). The Lounge of the Chateau d'Ouchy hotel has comfy red sofas, and a few tables inside but the real draw is the terrace which in facing east has a magnificent view of the Vaudois Alps. On a clear day try to pick out the Rocher de Naye above Montreux and the twin towers, the Tour d'Ai and the Tour de Mayen above Leysin. The blinking light you see at night in the same direction is the restaurant on La Berneuse. �
WhiteHorse Pub, av. d'Ouchy 66 (Just up the road from the Chateau). So many English pubs try to actually be English. This one is very Swiss-Romande and is possibly better for it, at least as a pub experience for the traveller who presumably would have gone to England to visit an English pub. �
MGM, Rue du Lac 14 (50 meters east of Métro Ouchy), ☎ +41 21 616 38 81. A red storefront facing the lake and the alps, the MGM has two terraces: the usual sort on the sidewalk, and better yet a deck on the second floor which makes for a great place to relax and enjoy a drink while taking in the view of the Massif du Chablais in the lingering sunlight of a summer evening. �
XIIIème Siècle, rue Cité-Devant (In the old city, behind the Cathedral). 10PM - 5AM. Claiming to be a bar for students this "13th Century" basement bar really gets going after midnight, when the other bars start to close. The dancing (and massive pulling) goes on until 5AM. A big plus: the very clean bathrooms are 21st Century, having been remodeled just a few years ago. Drinks are a bit pricier here than elsewhere though. 5Chf beer. �
Le Lapin Vert, Ruelle du Lapin Vert (In the old city, behind the Cathedral), ☎ +41 21 312 13 17, . Rock Bar. Beer, Sweat and Loud Music. Closes at 3AM on Friday and Saturday. �
The Great Escape, Rue de la Madeleine 18, ☎ +41 21 312 31 94, . Relaxed atmosphere, the place with the highest percentage of english speaking customers, big tasty hamburgers and fries, giant screen for soccer and rugby games, blind test on Monday. �
Taco's Bar, Rue de Genève 17 (In a basement in the Flon. For the balance of 2007 it's a little tough to get there through all of the construction, but Taco's is open), ☎ +41 21 320 15 25, . Pool and Live music, of reasonably large size. �
To perhaps a surprising degree for visitors from outside of Swiss Romande gay nightlife is very well integrated into nightlife at large. Most Lausanne nightspots are definintely gay-friendly, and many have a mixed straight-gay barstaff. There are a couple of places though which either advertise themselves as gay, or just have a majority gay crowd rather than just being gay-friendly. If that's what you are looking for there are a number of such bars along the avenue de Tivoli.
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