To
really get an appreciation for the scores of quality bars, boozers
and other alcohol-weilding madhouses you need to get a copy
of the Dirty Stop Out’s Guide
But here’s a few recommendations to keep you on the straight
and narrow until then.
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| Sheffield
City Centre |
| Art:Room |
Cubana |
Tel: 0114 2720070
29-31 Campo Lane S1
www.the-artroom.co.uk
Regular pianist at dinnertime, DJs do the business at
night. Madly popular with hungry office workers at lunch –
there’s also a self-service section if you’re in a
hurry.
Major cocktail menu and the opportunity to really impress your
mates by buying a bottle of spirits and leaving it in your very
own safe behind the bar – you even get your own key. |
Tel:
0114 276 0475
34, Trippet Lane S1
Ultra-popular
Havana-influenced tapas bar that’s a flagship of the Trippet
Lane/Campo Lane area which attracts the over-25s in their droves.
On offer is live music Monday to Thursday from artistes from around
the world, DJs on Friday and Saturday and a renowned tapas menu
available every night of the week.
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| Pepe’s
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Tel:
0114 273 7733
62-64 Cambridge Street S1
Major
pillar of Sheffield city centre’s after-dark community.
Top café bar which furnishes peckish clubbers with pizzas,
burgers and other tasty sustenance until the early hours every
night except Sunday.
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The
Red House |
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Tel:
0114 272 7926
168 Solly Street S1
Five minutes from the city centre you’ll find this largely
unspoilt pub which dates from the 1830s and is now a haven for
acoustic musicians and generally chilled-out-types who like a
good pint and home-cooked grub in a friendly environment.
Achieved celebrated notoriety in the 1920s as a centrepiece of
the city’s Gang Wars and was the site of the first raid
by the newly formed ‘flying squad’. |
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Showroom
Café Bar |
Tel:
0114 249 5479
7 Paternoster Row S1
www.showroom.org.uk
Popular venue day and night.
Lots of business done by day, major partying and cool DJs when
the sun goes down.
Top food and generally pleasant. Does some mega-popular food
and film offers – always easier when you’ve a nice
cinema next door – and some lazy Sunday afternoon sessions.
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London
Road Area |
| Bukowski’s
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Tel:
0114 258 4700
217-219 London Road, S2 4LJ
Chilled-out
venue with cabaret nights, jazz duos, folk sessions, poetry
performances and everything else, plus good cheap food menu.
Dedicated to American writer and general drunk Charles Bukowski.
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| Hillsborough |
| The
Deep End |
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Tel:
0114 285 4000
The former Hillsborough Baths, Langsett Road, Hillsborough S6
www.deependers.co.uk
Ex-municipal baths turned café bar par excellence.
Introduced credible live music to Hillsborough in style and offers
regular jamming session for the
best up-and-coming artistes.Very
big and gets very busy.
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Hillsborough's
popular Deep End |
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