Belgium and Blues is an independent cellar bar and brasserie on Above Bar Street in Southampton's cultural quarter, specialising in Belgian and craft beer. Set across two floors, it places its main bar in the cellar, with a ground-floor room that doubles as a restaurant and function space, and has built a following as an underground city-centre hideaway with a deep and constantly changing beer range. The venue opened in October 2016, founded by friends Jack Glennie and Steve Lee on the former s.....

EngineRooms is an independent live music and entertainment venue on West Quay Road in Southampton, occupying the site of the former Mo'Club, which was rebranded and refurbished in December 2014. Run by the MJR Group, it grew into the city's largest independent grassroots music and club venue. The space is multi-functional, hosting touring bands, club nights, comedy, exhibitions and bespoke festivals, and can be reconfigured for capacities of roughly 400, 600 or 800 depending on the event, up to.....

Pink flamingos, a roll-top bath for photographs and a tropical roof garden set the tone at Funky Flamingo, one of Southampton's most photographed bars. Tucked into Winchester Street in the Bedford Place neighbourhood, the garden-themed lounge bar opened during the pandemic and has built a strong following among groups, hen parties and an Instagram-minded crowd looking for somewhere a little different from the usual high-street fare. The interior pairs lush, jungle-inspired decor with a cocktail.....

Medbar is a Mediterranean-themed cocktail bar, restaurant and late-night club at 50 Oxford Street in Southampton, trading since 2013. By day and early evening it serves Mediterranean-inspired tapas and grill dishes alongside a cocktail list with a two-for-one offer running daily from 4pm to 8pm, and bills itself around a large bottomless-brunch menu. On Friday and Saturday nights it shifts into club mode, opening until 2am across two rooms of music -- commercial, R&B, garage and party classics .....

Housed within Southampton's grand Civic Centre, the O2 Guildhall is the city's premier concert hall and one of the principal live-music venues on the south coast of England. Opened in the 1930s as part of the imposing civic complex and operated under the academy brand, the historic hall combines the dignity of its municipal origins with the role of a busy contemporary music venue, hosting a wide range of events throughout the year. The venue holds around seventeen hundred and fifty people, with.....

A lively cocktail bar and restaurant on Southampton's bustling Bedford Place, Revolution is part of the well-known national chain built around handcrafted cocktails, food and a party atmosphere. Spread across several distinct areas, it offers the choice of a main bar, a funky clubroom and a rooftop Sky Bar, catering to everything from after-work drinks to late-night dancing. Cocktails are central to the offer, with a long list of handcrafted and classic serves backed by a premium selection of s.....

A long-standing favourite of Southampton's student scene, Sobar is a late-night bar and club on Bevois Valley Road, a short distance from the city centre. Known for unbeatable drink deals and a famously large garden, it has become a fixture of the city's nightlife and a go-to for student nights, particularly its notorious Tuesday sessions. The venue is split into two main areas, a bar and a club, allowing visitors to choose between a more relaxed drinking space and a busier dancefloor depending.....

Suburbia is an eclectic nightclub and grassroots live music venue at 27-29 Onslow Road in Southampton, with a capacity of around 250. The building has a long musical history: originally the Onslow pub, Southampton's main blues venue, it became Lennons nightclub around 1990, closed in 2016, and reopened as Suburbia in 2017 before a major refurbishment in April 2024. The venue runs an intimate, high-energy programme that spans indie gigs, punk and rock through to techno and drum and bass, putting.....

A Southampton institution in the student-heavy Bevois Valley district, the Hobbit is a multi-level pub and late-night live music venue rolled into one. Originally the Portswood Hotel and shown on nineteenth-century maps, it was renamed after Tolkien's novel in 1989 and has since become one of the city's best-known nightspots, popular with students and like-minded locals who pack it out most nights of the week. The split-level building holds two bars, a pool table upstairs and a large paved beer.....

Few Southampton pubs wear their theme as boldly as The Hobbit, a fantasy-styled bar and grassroots music venue on Bevois Valley Road. Round windows, a moss wall and wood panelling give the interior a burrow-like feel, while the name nods to J.R.R. Tolkien's novel. The building is far older than its current identity. Recorded on nineteenth-century maps as the Portswood Hotel, it was renamed The Hobbit in 1989 and has traded under that name ever since, becoming a long-standing fixture close to th.....