SARAJEVO - In Your Pocket

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