BRUSSELS:

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Latino & Tropical Bars

-- Canoa Quebrada
Hallucinating decorum & brazilian music.
@ rue du Marche aux Charbons (in front of Pablo Discobar) - 1000 Brussels.

-- Cartagena - Salsa bar & club
@ 70, rue du Marché aux Charbons/Kolenmarkt - 1000 Brussels.

-- La Salsa - Salsa bar & little club - Young & nice.
@ rue Borgval str. (Beurs/Bourse) - 1000 Brussels.

-- MonteChristo - Tapas & latino bar
Food and funky atmosphere
@ rue Henri Mauss str. (Bourse/Beurs)

-- Los Romanticos
Large Salsa bar/club. Opens every day from 19:30.
5 bis, bd. Anspach laan - 1000 Brussels.
Link to their page: click here.

-- Le Soleil d'Afrique
@ rue du Noyer - 1040 Brussels (near 50th Jubilee park / Schuman).

-- L'Ecrin Tropical
Antilles, carribean sounds.
@ 62 rue de la Fourche - 1000 Brussels.

-- Papagayo
Salsa y Samba! Big terrace on the place.
@ 6 pl. Rouppe - 1000 Brussels.

-- Habana Cafe
Salsa on saturday & sunday
@ rue des Harengs - 1000 Brussels

-- Noche Latina
Aah...Peru, Ecuador, Columbia, Argentina, Cuba,...
@ 204 rue Haute/Hoogstraat - 1000 Brussels.

-- L'Equipe des Alizés
(ex-Equipe) Closed
@ 40 rue de Livourne str. - 1060 Brussels.

-- L'Horloge du Sud
Till very late, a sort of large 50's café-restaurant with strong African influences.
Good taste, try the green lemon dessert... a must.
Sometimes till very late with Latino-Jazz or African concerts.
@ 141 rue du Trône - 1050 Brussels. (corner chée de Wavre/Waversestwg)

-- Marie Galante
Tourism makes it expensive, but it's cool anyway
@ 33 rue au Beurre/Botermarkt - 1000 Brussels.

-- La Référence
The main african club in Brussels.
Not far from Etangs Noirs - 1070 Brussels.

-- La Savane
Classic African bar... till very late at night.
@ 7 rue de la Paix - 1050 Brussels. 02/514.77.80

Cool Bars & pre-party places

-- Gecko
Cocktail bar + some light food. Easy atmosphere till late. Cool sounds (lounge jazz or funk).
@ place St Gery / St Goriksplein - 1000 Brussels (in front of La fiesta)

-- Java
One of the most beautiful bar, between Gaudi and old traditionnal Flandria intelligentsia. + Brazilian cantina till 2 a.m. Saturday with deejay Protesta or sometimes Bun-Zero.
@ 31 rue St Gery - 1000 Brussels.

-- l'Art Sans Flamme
Bar + restaurant, in a friendly place.
Closed since end 93, it's back at 25 feet from its old address.
@ pl. St Gery - 1000 Brussels (ex-Lion d'Or).

-- Mezzo
Jazzy cool bar, 2 floors. Sometimes Jazz performances or soft deejays.
@ pl. St Géry - 1000 Brussels
www.mezzo.be

-- H2O
The only nocturnal way to listen to Classical Music.
Soft & baroque, with a terrific choice of drinks (really madly supplied) & food (hot sugar pies, precious pastas), quiet... well...I love it.
From 19:00 'till 2 a.m. except sunday.
@ rue du Marché au Charbon/Kolenmarkt (in front of Belgica bar). Ring at the door.

-- Goupil le Fol (french old vibes tavern, Brel, Piaf, Barbara, Gainsbourg, all that stuff...)
Fantastic deco, books, paintings & smooth lights. Clever.
Fruits wines or fruit cocktails,...sweet sphere.
@ rue de la Violette - 1000 Brussels.
Between pl.St Jean/St Jan pl. & Grand'Place. Free entrance.

-- Marcus Mingus Jazz bar & concerthall - one of the few Jazz places of Brussels
@ 10 Impasse de la Fidélité - 1000 Brussels (downtown).
Website: Mingus.

-- Ultime Atome (Bar-rest.)
Right place, right people to meet. Lovely salads till 22:00
Music is usually erased by the ambiance. Sometimes Jazz Funk, sometimes radio.
Till 03 a.m. @ rue Solvay - 1050 Brussels. Free entrance.

-- Grain de Sable
Purely Jazz & Be Bop
@ 15 pl. du Grand Sablon - 1000 Brussels.

-- La Porte Noire
Cool, earthy, sometimes Blues
@ 67 rue des Alexiens - 1000 Brussels.

-- la Nef des Fous
Restaurant, concerts & artist exhibitions. Hope, artistic energy, dreams and constructive utopy.
Check it out!
only thurs., fri., sat. & monday.
@ 33 rue de Dublin str. - 1050 Brussels.
If there's a concert: door: 150 Bf.-

-- le Tavernier (food, drinks & parties)
Cool, in an old brewery (or it looks like), for a coffee, a small meal, or a party.
Good chill and lounge music + press of the day and video screen.
@ chée de Boondael /sesteenweg - 1050 Brussels
(near VUB/ULB, Ixelles graveyard).

-- Belga
Large 50's bar, on ground floor of the Flagey Radio building... permanently crowded with mostly 18-35 y.o. people. Nice average atmosphere, simple chairs and tables. Trip Hop and various electronics in a far background music.
@ pl. Flagey - 1050 Brussels

-- Archiduc (salon)
Jazzy, 30's, wood & smart. Cumfortable.
@ 6 rue Antoine Dansaert str. - 1000 Brussels.

-- Bizon
Bluesy & Acid jazzy.
@ 7 rue du Pont de la Carpe (St Gery) - 1000 Brussels.
website: cafebizon.com

-- ex-Wilde bar is now an Irish Pub
Long bar with fashion decoration, 60's chairs, 2 floors.
@ bd Anspach laan (next to "Suisse") - 1000 Brussels (Beurs/Bourse)

-- Mappa Mundo
Strange, looks old, little but fine. All wood & captain Nemo's dream.
@ corner of St Gery pl. (in front of Zebra) - 1000 Brussels.

-- Zebra
The classic rendez-vous. Russian coffee and nice people... big terrace all over the corner... and even a bit too much success, then it's a bit too crowdy in the summernights.
@ corner of St Gery pl. (in front of Mappa) - 1000 Brussels.

-- Foe's
@ chée de Waterloo, in front of Barabar - 1180 Brussels

-- Barabar
@ chée de Waterloo, in front of Foe's - 1180 Brussels (in back of Kamerenbos/Cambre)

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Party Bars

-- Pablo Discobar
Every day (except sunday & monday) cosmic alcohols with guest deejays (Regis, Geoffroy, Sander, Morpheus, Philarmonix, Koenie, ...). The hypest in town, no doubt. New room!
Closed on sunday & monday.
@ 60 rue du Marché au Charbon / Kolenmarkt - 1000 Brussels.
Their website: pablodiscobar.be

-- Belgica
Cool & with Garage House (selected U.S. compilations). Gay but not only.
Go for a lemon jenever and a happy smile by Jean-Yves.
@ 12 rue du Marché aux Charbons - 1000 Brussels
From wednesday to sunday... till laaaate.
Now they have a website... check it out here!

-- The Q - disco bar
New stylish & cosy fashion place, opened 12 December 2002.
Deejays mostly from France in a Manhattan ClubHouse style.
Opens Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 21:00
@ 28 rue Defacqz str. - 1050 Brussels.

-- DALI's BAR - check the deco!
Percussions & didgeridoo concerts, Chill & Trip Hop deejays.
House deejays on fri. & saturday, including Svenus (Sound, Who's Who's), Cosy Mozzy, Steph X, ...
Some thursdays 70's Disco parties. Opens everyday.
@ 35 Petite rue des Bouchers - 1000 Brussels.

-- Cafe Central
Funky-Jazzy-Afro-Latino.
@ 16 rue Borgval straat - 1000 Brussels.

-- L'Incognito - gay men bar
@ 36 rue des Pierres - 1000 Brussels.

-- le Sud
A place between kitsch, Trip Hop & lemon vodkas. Several rooms, several decorums. Trash but cool & young.
@ 43 rue de l'Ecuyer/Schildknaapstr. - 1000 Brussels (behind the Opera).
Friday & saturday  from 22:00.

-- Velvet Café - a bit tech & house... closed
@ 1 rue de la Tête d'Or - 1000 Brussels. (Grand'Place)

-- Follies (gay meeting)
Disco atmosphere & transformism shows
@ 9, Quai au Bois à Brûler (Vismarkt/Marché aux Poissons) - 1000 Brussels
Closed on tuesday.

-- Gate - lesbian & gays
Tuesday to saturday, funk, disco, 80's with deejays. Saturday: women only (no men inside).
@ 36 rue Fossé-Aux-Loups/Wolvengrachtstraat - 1000 Brussels.

-- Soulkitchen at De Noot
Every thursday, new & old school House, Disco, Soul, Funk with deejay Fat.
@ Groot-Bijgaarden/Grand-Bigard

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IN BELGIUM:

-- Jazz Matazz (cool & sometimes Jazz)
Seems to be the best club in Louvain-La-Neuve. 2 levels with seats.
@ rue des Wallons (Grd Place) - Louvain-La Neuve

-- L'Apero (Reggae bar)
@ Oudemarkt - 3000 Leuven.

-- De Skans (african meeting)
@ 8 Parklaan - 1500 Hal

-- Blue Note Cafe (afro-Jazz meeting)
@ 23 Grote Markt - 1500 Hal

-- Café Fagot (Reggae meeting)
Closed on tuesday & wednesday.
@ 48 Stationsstraat - 8770 Ingemunster

-- De Volle Maan (Cosmonaal Wereld Kaffee)
Closed on sunday & monday.
@ Vlasmarkt - Kortrijk/Courtrai.

-- De Melkweg (Reggae meeting)
Closed on tuesday & wednesday.
@ 58 Kasteelstraat - 8700 Tielt

-- Sous-Sol - Jungle & Electronics
Deejays: Millenium Kru, Lukas, Niko, Holmes, Katrien Klausing, ...
@ 41, Hoogpoort - 9000 Gent

-- Damberd Jazz Bar
@ 19 Korenmarkt - 9000 Gent
damberd.be

-- New Funco Cafe (Free The Funk influence)
Da new place of Olivier Tjon & partners in freedom of Funk.
@ next to Overpoortstraat - 9000 Gent

-- Decadance (the hypest House cafe in Gent)
Main groovy area, with all cool deejays of Belgium (Pierre, T-Quest, ...) as guest. Large hall.
Every day @ Overpoortstraat - 9000 Gent

-- Weekend-Fever @ Bronx Café - Dance House
Deejays : Nick & Nitro
@ Bronx Café kribbestraat (Near 't Eilandje) - Antwerpen
Friday & Saturday only!

-- Bar Tabac
Sometimes Jazz, sometimes Trip Hop, sometimes Chill... depends of the mood.
Really friendly & cool, with refined music and positive people. But really too little.
@ Luikstraat (South of the city) - Antwerpen.

-- Café au Lait - cool night cafe in Antwerp
Deejays: Axel, System D, Dimitri, Phelipe Cortez, Far West Crew,...
@ 8 Oude Beurs - 2000 Antwerpen

-- Café Den Booze
Een tof danscafé met verschillende deejays elk weekend
@ Hoek 23 B-2310 Rijkevorsel (provincie Antwerpen)
Tel 033145252

-- La Petite Fugue - Deep House / House
Sometimes guests like Stephen (Mad Club), Jim (Pablo Disco)
Every Thursday and Friday + Saturday (see flyers)
@ 2, Avenue de l'Europe - 6000 Charleroi

-- L'Arnaque - cool with Hip-Hop, Pop, club House, Funk, etc.
free entrance - Ask for Samy: if you tell him that you've heard about 'L'Arnaque' by Noctis.com, you'll get a free drink.
Every friday from 21.00 @ pl.d. Marché Aux Herbes - 6700 Mons/Bergen.

-- Take Off - Jazz & Blues
@ 4 rue du Mouton Blanc - 4000 Liège

-- La Cremerie - pop hits and pop people
@ 7 rue Tête de Boeuf - 4000 Liège

-- Imprevu - cool & students
@ 11 rue Tête de Boeuf - 4000 Liège

-- L'Escalier - art-bar/party place
Bar + concerts + parties + shop ... a must.
@ 26 rue Saint-Jean-en-Isle - 4000 Liège

-- Trois Niveaux
@ rue d'Amay - 4000 Liège

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