Nightlife in Tenerife -
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| Nightlife in Tenerife can be divided into two distinct types. You can go to a nightclub, where there is live entertainment or maybe a show...or you can go "clubbing", to a late night venue, featuring DJs where you can dance the night away and generally let your hair down. As they are two totally different forms of nightlife, "Clubbing" has been given a seperate category of its own. |
Live Entertainment Bars
I suppose, if you want to start on the ground floor regarding live music shows, you have to consider Tenerife's most prevalent form of entertainment, the bar/restaurant with a resident compere, featuring guest cabaret artistes.
When the sun goes down, there is an unbelievable number of bar/restaurants providing musical entertainment in this way - all adding to your choice of nightlife in Tenerife. It would be impossible to list them all here. Your best bet is to explore the area around where you are staying and pick a venue that suits you.
| I'm not including karaoke bars here. They are still numerous around the island, though not as much as they once were. As a musician myself, you can imagine my opinion of them! |
A Small Selection of Live Entertainment Bars - one's I've worked at or had experience of
Nightlife in Tenerife - Los Cristianos
- Costamar Poolside Terrace
Sunday afternoons - relaxed event with guest artistes and bingo - Charly Bar
Live duo, seven nights a week - Market Tavern
Situated in the Paloma Beach strip, this British bar features live entertainment on Wednesdays and Sundays - D'Arcos
Different shows every night - Dreamers & Churchills
Both owned by the drummer from Freddie and the Dreamers - different cabaret every night - Chicago's
Recently re-opened, featuring a compere and guest cabaret - O' Flaherty's
Irish bar with different tribute acts nightly
NB: last time I was in Tenerife (Nov 2009), this bar seemed to be closed down - Amigos Bar
Found on the sea front down by the harbour, this bar/restaurant has had a few changes of personel over the last six months, but, as far as I know, now features Simon May, of the Tenerife band Crush, seven nights a week. - Lewinski's
Found on the corner at the traffic lights in Los Cristianos centre, featuring resident guitar/vocalist Jack Cantrell - Pa Broons
Found in the Parque Margarita complex, opposite Summerland, this small bar has live cabaret a few nights a week
I was all set to comment on The Church bar, with nightly entertainment compered by my friend Terry Paul, but I understand that it is now an Indian restaurant, called the Masala Tandoori!
Nightlife in Tenerife - Las Americas
The Patch
- Drunk N Duck
Live entertainment every night, with the award-winning resident duo "Two Risky", made up of Terry and Steve, both friends of mine. A family bar featuring guest cabaret. - Brewers Droop
A family bar with host and compere Graham Gold. - Shenanigans
Fun bar, featuring superb resident duo "Loony Tunes", plus a selection of comperes and a variety of top Tenerife cabaret acts. - Sax Bar
On your left as you walk down Patch towards the ocean, in recent years featuring live music of a "heavy metal" nature. (No saxophones!) - Blaydon Races
Another cabaret bar vying for your business. Featuring a resident compere and guest cabaret - Princess Di's
This well-known Patch bar is no more, I'm afraid. Apparently, it is now a Finnish-run bar, called Kippi's! - Central Station
A family-friendly bar with resident compere and guest cabaret - Patch Bar
This is the large bar on the corner at the top of Patch. Spanish run, with Spanish live music - Dubliner
Bar situated under the Las Palmeras Hotel, near Patch. Guess what sort of pub it is! Brilliant three piece band in residence - Gaelic Corner
Another Irish themed pub, upstairs from the Dubliner, with a keyboard player in residence - The Full Monty
At the top corner of Patch, on the right, this large venue, I would imagine, is aimed more at younger people. At the time of writing, I'm not sure about the live entertainment situation. - The Stage Door
Tucked away under some steps on the left just down from the main road is this, theoretically, members only bar. It's where a lot of the Tenerife entertainers go after they finish and some of them will get up on stage and do an impromptu spot - Gangsters
Closed down - Beavers
Closed down - Britannia
Closed down
Parque La Paz
There is a strip of bar/restaurants attached to the Parque La Paz aparthotel, most providing entertainment.
- Coconut Joe's
The first bar/restaurant from the main road and one I worked in as compere for a good while just before I returned to the UK - The Bull's Head
The next bar along, serving drinks only. A larger venue, featuring an excellent live band (with real drums!) - Brahms and Liszt
A large bar that has been described as having a "working men's club" atmosphere. (For those of you not from the UK, I'm sorry, that won't mean anything.) Entertainment nightly - Soul Suite
Late cabaret venue featuring Tenerife's best black soul singers - George and Dragon
Blatantly British family bar with entertainment nightly - Hole In The Wall
An Irish bar with resident musician plus guest cabaret - Lazy Daze
Yet another cabaret bar - it also features the dreaded karaoke! - The Corner Bar
At the bottom end of the La Paz strip, with a large outdoor terrace, presenting class acts nightly
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