SARAJEVO - In Your Pocket
SARAJEVO - In Your Pocket
SARAJEVO - In Your Pocket
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26 nightlife<br />
Someone came to party<br />
Kino Bosna B-2; B-3; C-2; D-2, Alipašina 19. This<br />
theatre-cum-bar is ground zero for Sarajevo’s alternative<br />
crowd and home to the cheapest beer in town. The bar is<br />
essentially just the lobby of an old cinema - which still shows<br />
a film every once and while and hosts the odd thrash/metal/<br />
hardcore concert - but most nights the place is packed and<br />
the party is forced to spread outside onto the terrace, front<br />
steps and street. <strong>In</strong> recent years it’s made its way onto the<br />
tourist map, so you probably won’t be the only foreigner there.<br />
QOpen 10:00 - 03:00. J6ENBS<br />
L.A. C-2, Merhemića Trg 14, tel. (+387) 61 432<br />
184/(+387) 61 376 009. L.A. is a new cocktail bar and<br />
organizes events and fashion shows worthy of attention.<br />
Summer time out in the big garden is crowded and lively.<br />
QOpen 00:00 - 24:00. PEX<br />
Marquee B-4, Obala Kulina Bana 6, tel. (+387) 61 132<br />
117, info@ilijas.net, www.marquee.net.tf. Legend has it<br />
that Marquee never closes till the last customer passes out.<br />
You know you’ve had a premium night-out in Sarajevo when<br />
you end up in Marquee, with its rock memorabilia, chatty,<br />
friendly staff and the most-grafittied toilets in south-eastern<br />
Europe. Bottled beers and cocktails flow, while a mixture of<br />
leathery old rockers, gorgeous Sarajevo über-babes, mindbogglingly<br />
drunk EU peacekeepers and students happily rub<br />
shoulders. Most of them will have forgotten the following day<br />
that they went to Marquee at all. Fantastic. QOpen 00:00<br />
- 24:00. JX<br />
Maršal Tito Bihacka 19, tel. (+387) 61 92 30 42.<br />
This used to be a great, very individual bar themed on the<br />
late Marshal Tito, set on the edge of the river in Hrasno a<br />
couple of kilometres outside the centre of town. Now it’s<br />
moved to a new site behind the National Museum, with a<br />
huge outdoor seating area and a collection of machine-guns<br />
displayed on the walls. To find it, just look for the disused<br />
tanks and abandoned Mi-17 Helicopter gunship on the grass<br />
behind the National Museum. It’s next to them. QOpen<br />
10:00 - 24:00.<br />
Mash B-3, Branilaca Sarajeva 20/I, tel. (+387) 33 48<br />
90 33/(+387) 33 205 490. Much of Sarajevo’s charm<br />
is that many of its attractions are not apparent, or even<br />
hidden. Were it not for the noise coming from its location on<br />
the first-floor terrace of a nondescript tower-block next to<br />
The National Theatre, you could easily miss this hip, stylish<br />
bar, with seats outside on a terrace. Popular with a younger<br />
crowd, it is often refurbished. Expect it to look like the interior<br />
of a ocean-liner, a spaceship or a drawing-room. QOpen<br />
09:00 - 24:00. JBX<br />
Nostalgija Mukevita 10. Like name, like bar. Post-war<br />
melancholia and fond memories of better days seem to<br />
hang over this tiny, somehow charming establishment<br />
set in an alley just off Ferhadija. The owner and barman’s<br />
an old Sarajevo DJ and soldier of note, the clientele a<br />
variety of semi-pickled Sarajevo regulars who float on<br />
the lesser fringes of the city’s artistic community. Fun,<br />
but not exactly lively. QOpen 10:30 - 24:00.<br />
Opera B-3, Branilaca Sarajeva 25, tel. (+387)<br />
61 156 943, f ax (+387) 33 221 940, inf o@<br />
caffebaropera.ba, www.caffebaropera.ba. Located<br />
opposite Mash bar, Opera’s high stools and tall tables<br />
pull in a twenty-and-thirty something crowd, with good<br />
cocktails and slick service, and occasional live music.<br />
The back room is filled with low-slung sofas, popular with<br />
younger couples and teenagers on dates, all of whom tend<br />
to live at home with their parents. They sip warm Nescafé<br />
and fruit juices and snog their way contentedly through<br />
the afternoon and early evening. QOpen 07:00 - 24:00.<br />
JBX<br />
Pravda B-3, Radićeva 4c, tel. (+387) 33 55 82 15,<br />
pravdasarajevo@gmail.com, www.pravdasarajevo.<br />
com. Sarajevo’s beauti fully designed bar of the<br />
moment boasts comfortable sofas and high stools<br />
on which to perch and lounge, and good Croatian and<br />
Argentinian wines and snacks. Spot Bosnian President<br />
Haris Silajdzic on sofas next to Bosnian and Serb<br />
models and designers, international diplomats and<br />
local celebrities. Great fun. QOpen 09:00 - 02:00.<br />
JA6EBX<br />
Ribica B-3, Kaptol 5, tel. (+387) 33 21 53 69.<br />
Meaning ‘little fish,’ this is the most original bar in<br />
Sarajevo. Opera, theatre and concert posters line<br />
the walls, customers like Džejla Glavović, Bosnia’s<br />
supermodel face of Ralph Lauren, sip coffee and beers,<br />
comfortable stools and plush banquettes with gilded<br />
mirrors bring to mind a cross between a mini-brasserie<br />
from Paris, a Viennese coffee house and a bar. Eccentric<br />
owner Slobodan plays country rock, folk and blues from<br />
a 13,000-strong song collection. QOpen 09:00 - 24:00.<br />
JBX<br />
Casinos<br />
Coloseum Club A-2, Terezije bb (KSC Skenderija),<br />
tel. (+387) 33 250 860/(+387) 33 250 880, fax<br />
(+387) 33 250 861, coloseum@hit-bih.com.ba,<br />
www.coloseum-club.com. Entertainment center Coloseum<br />
offers relaxed socializing, concerts, entertaining<br />
events and top enjoyment. <strong>In</strong> the Arena Restaurant you<br />
can enjoy a romantic dinner, numerous concerts by top<br />
local artsits, theatre plays, fashion shows and dance<br />
performances. There’s also a casio with table games<br />
and slot machines and a large conference room for<br />
business events and meetings. QOpen 00:00 - 24:00.<br />
POJHAULEBKX<br />
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