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( 2327275; Av 5 de Julho; mains CVE800; 8am-midnight)
Open-air terrace restaurant perched
above the street, with a wide- ranging menu, from pizzas and burgers to grilled mains and
some vegetarian options. It has live-music acts on weekends at 8.30pm (book ahead).
Drinking & Nightlife
Evening breezes bring people out into the streets, and they inevitably head for Praça
Amilcar Cabral (also called Praça Nova), where they sit on plastic chairs in the popular
quiosque
cafes under spreading acacia trees. For daytime coffee or an evening beer, try
the tiny and adorable
Café Lisboa
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(Rua da Libertad d'Africa;
7.30am-11pm)
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Jazzy Bird
BAR
(Av Baltazar Lopes da Silva; closed Sun)
Known to locals as Vou, after the friendly owner, this
cool little basement bar plastered with old jazz posters attracts an older crowd. Big-name
local musicians play jazz late on Friday night.
ZeroPointArt
WINE BAR
(
www.zeropointart.org
;
Rua Unidade Africana 62; 6pm-midnight Mon & Wed-Fri, 8pm-2am Sat, 8pm-midnight
Sun)
Gallery space downstairs and a chilled wine bar upstairs, with lots of contempo art-
work, dark ambient lighting and cool music. A good place for a low-key night out, over
wine and tapas-style snacks.
Syrius
CLUB
(cnr of Rua Camões & Senador Veracruz; admission from CVE200)
Just around the corner from Praça
Amilcar Cabral, under Porto Grande Hotel, Syrius is the city's perennially fashionable but
often empty disco.
Information
The city centre has several banks with ATMs. There's free wi-fi on Praça Amilcar Cabral,
although with finnicky signal.