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Atlanta Nightlife
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Larger photo - Eric Cash - Jasmine Mans at Apache Cafe 2016
Atlanta Nightlife is your comprehensive guide to what to do after dark in the city — from late-night dance clubs to cozy neighborhood bars, live music venues, adult entertainment, and comedy spaces.
Atlanta’s nightlife is diverse: some places are best for dancing, others for live performances, and others for grabbing drinks with friends. Below you’ll find links to dedicated pages for Bars, Nightclubs & Dance Clubs, Live Music Venues, Comedy Clubs, and Adult Entertainment — so you can explore each category in depth.
This page is designed to help you choose the type of nightlife you’re looking for; individual venue details live on the category pages below.
Live Music Venues
Venues where live performance is the primary draw — concerts, bands, DJs with a music focus.
A local blues, jazz, and roots institution that's been around for more than 25 years. The North Highland Avenue storefront, with its signature guitar-...
Eclectic venue for hip-hop, spoken-word poetry, and up-and-coming soul artists. Home to Wednesday night jam sessions featuring a live band and open mi...
Atlanta's first urban winery, City Winery has an intimate music venue able to seat 300 people, a restaurant, bar, an outdoor patio, and a private even...
The Avon Theater is part of the Historic Avondale Estates Tudor Village building that was constructed in 1924 and is listed on the National Register ...
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Dance Clubs and Nightclubs
Spots focused on late-night music, DJs, dancing, and nightlife energy.
Nightclub and unique visual experience located just down the street from Sweetwater Brewing.
Welcome To Eastside Station, Gwinnett's Ultimate Party Bar!
Monday: Free Pool
Wednesday: Industry Night
Thursday: Texas Hold'Em
Friday: Dance Mix
Sa...
The Havana Club has been a fixture on the Buckhead nightlife scene since it's opening in March of 1996. Founded by seasoned entrepreneurs, The Havana ...
"Restaurant by day! Nightclub when the sun goes down! A bar at all times! This upscale establishment caters to all walks of life thus the name! Come i...
MJQ Concourse moved to Underground Atlanta 50 Lower Alabama St Atlanta GA 30303
The tiny, shacklike entrance reveals an eclectic and loyal late-nigh...
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Comedy Clubs
Stand-up, improv, and comedy venues across the city.
Dad’s Garage is a non-profit comedy theatre located in the heart of Atlanta's historic Old Fourth Ward neighborhood. With award-winning Atlanta improv...
Scope out the glossy head shots that line the walls of this barely OTP comedy institution and you’ll see that everyone from John Stewart to Jeff Foxwo...
The longest-running African-American comedy club in Atlanta, Uptown Comedy Corner has featured Chris Rock, the Wayans Brothers, Steve Harvey and Chris...
Popular Atlanta institution for serious slacking, burger eating, and drinking. Home to the Laughing Skull Lounge comedy club.
Atlanta's best full-time option for seeing stand-up is an intimate venue tucked away in the back of Midtown's Vortex Bar & Grill. The Laughing Skull L...
Bars and Pubs
This outstanding neighborhood pub, complete with an upstairs Belgian bar that has potent brews on tap, offers roughly 215 beers. The menu’s beer descr...
This neighborhood tavern and grill was opened in 1947, and has been serving Pabst Blue Ribbon since the mid 1950s. It's a great place to hang out and ...
Pints of Guinness flow, cover bands rock out, and soccer hooligans park their butts at the bar on game days.
Every night is ladies' night at this popular bar and dance club in its new location in the heart of Midtown. MSR is a great place to meet beautiful 20...
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After-Hours and Late-Night Venues
This mega-nightclub feels kind of like a resort, with several indoor and outdoor environments, including a pool area (swimming, not billiards). A grea...
An upscale-casual eatery known for great food, classic rock music and 100-250 taps of imported, craft and specialty ales & lagers.
This gentlemen's club offers women free entry until midnight.
With 14 beers on tap, 40 bottled selections, and a fully stocked selection of wine and spirits, Cypress has become a local favorite neighborhood haunt...
Aisle 5 maintains the communal philosophy of its predecessor, the Five Spot, but its guts are brand new. The 2014 renovation brought the space a new s...
Adult Entertainment
Name-checked by Mötley Crüe, this venerable strip club just keeps shakin’ its thang.
The city's top high-end strip club stresses the "gentleman" part of "gentleman's club" more than most local clubs. It's handsomely appointed and stock...
There are strip clubs, and then there are Atlanta strip clubs. The Pink Pony sits atop an extended list of adult emporiums for the city, but it's the ...
If you haven't witnessed Blondie, the city's most well-embraced stripper (she's appeared in the city's marketing material, for Christ's sake), crushin...
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Atlanta Nightlife Guide | Bars, Clubs, Live Music & Comedy