The Hickory Shack & Charlie's Garage Craft Brewery sits at 98 St George's Street in Simon's Town, right on the main drag near the penguin colony and harbour. It's a casual Texas-style smokehouse BBQ spot with an on-site craft brewery run by Charlie Murray (of Charlie's Garage). The vibe is rustic, welcoming and low-key Southern—think slow-smoked meats over hickory and pecan wood, house sauces, and fresh craft beers poured straight from the taps. No fancy fine-dining here: it's hearty, meat-focus.....

Famous for its rolling three-month residencies, XOYO turned a simple programming idea into one of London's most influential club formats after opening in Shoreditch in 2010. By handing a single artist a curated season of dates, it let DJs build immersive runs of nights and gave clubbers a reason to return week after week. The two-floor venue pairs a pulsing basement dancefloor with an upper level, creating distinct spaces under one roof. Its residency series has hosted a roll-call of leading n.....

A collectively run club with politics woven into its DNA, about blank stands apart from Berlin's commercial nightlife. Opened in 2010 on Markgrafendamm near Ostkreuz, it is operated as a non-hierarchical project that channels proceeds into leftist, anti-fascist and queer causes. Spread across two indoor floors and a much-loved garden, it offers one of the city's most charming open-air dancing experiences in summer. Its programming runs the gamut of house and techno, with a strong commitment to.....

With a main hall holding around 3,000 standing and two smaller rooms beneath it, the O2 Academy Birmingham is one of the largest dedicated live-music venues in the city centre. The complex on Horsefair, at the lower end of Bristol Street, brings three interconnected spaces under one roof: the principal Academy, the mid-sized Academy 2 and the club-scale Academy 3, giving a combined capacity approaching 3,900 across simultaneous shows. The venue moved to its present building in September 2009, r.....

A 1960s A-frame church became South Austin's best seat for a song. The 04 Center at 2701 South Lamar Boulevard - the name comes from the 78704 zip code Austinites wear like a badge - is a fully seated 370-capacity listening room carved out of the former Faith United Methodist Church, built in 1969. Austin New Church took the building over in January 2018, and the concert operation run alongside it earned a Best New Venue nomination from the Austin Chronicle in 2019. The A-frame bones do the aco.....

On the Soho site of the legendary Marquee Club, where artists including David Bowie and the Rolling Stones once performed, 100 Wardour Street operated as a restaurant, bar and live music venue at the heart of London's entertainment district. The address also previously housed Terence Conran's Mezzo and the Cuban venue Floridita, giving it a deep pedigree in Soho's nightlife and dining scene. The venue was arranged over two levels. A ground-floor bar and lounge centred on a striking feature bar .....

1000 Trades is an independent neighbourhood bar and kitchen at 16 Frederick Street in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter, a 15-minute walk from the city centre. It occupies a nineteenth-century building that began as a jewellery workshop and later became a badge factory, and the venue celebrates that craft heritage across three floors, including a pin-badge wall honouring the building's history. The bar champions independent and small-batch producers, pouring several real ales, craft beers, and nat.....

Three million clubbers have passed through this SoMa doorway. 1015 Folsom, at the corner of Folsom and 6th Street in San Francisco's South of Market, is one of the longest continuously operating dance clubs in the United States: a 20,000-square-foot maze of five rooms across three levels, main floor capacity 800 and the whole building around 1,500, that has hosted Madonna, Tiesto, Fatboy Slim, Giorgio Moroder, LCD Soundsystem and Dave Chappelle across four decades. The building's history is pur.....

Northeast El Paso's big room makes a wish of its address. 11:11, at 9740 Dyer Street Suite 117, is a 1,200-capacity music and concert venue that has become the city's main stop for touring electronic acts and hip-hop headliners - Showtek, Ghastly, Borgore, James HYPE, L.A. Guns and a steady run of rap bills have all worked its stage, most promoted by the Wasted Presents crew whose takeovers fill the calendar. The room is built for production: a state-of-the-art sound system, concert lighting, a.....

An industrial block west of Weston Road hides one of Toronto's busiest warehouse stages. 131 McCormack Street, in the Junction-area industrial strip south of St. Clair Avenue West, operates as the Black Creek Assembly - a venue run by Lands Black Creek Arts and Culture and dedicated, in its own words, to the creation and presentation of artistic works by a diverse range of artists. Film screenings, runway and fashion shows, and live music and dance performances share the big assembly room. The .....