The Wharf opened in the first phase of the redevelopment of Cardiff Bay. It is one of the more established venues and popular with residents. Located on the harbour front, it has views over the bay, and the summer months see its outside seating areas thronging with drinkers.
The cosy pub-style interior is ideal for more inclement weather with a homely menu offering typical pub food, grills and sharing platters. Half crenulated castle, half modern glass and concrete, its large windows offer stunning views over Cardiff Bay. There is a good range of beers and ciders, plus a typical pub menu. On summer days the large beer garden fills up with drinkers on picnic blankets soaking up the sun. Thanks to its cheesy music, the Disco Room is usually the most popular part of the club.
Despite its cavernous size, it is always packed on Friday. Expect long queues, both to get in and at the bar. This chic watering hole and club think: white Chesterfields and illuminated moose heads has live music in the week, while DJs provide the entertainment on Friday and Saturday nights.
Buffalo Bar is an independent drinking den and live music venue that has worked its way up to becoming a Cardiff institution. The weekly club nights showcase DJs and bands with a different mix of music coming from the speakers each day.
Its covered beer garden, with an outside bar, offers a quieter alternative to the music inside if it gets a bit too loud. Over the last decade it has established itself as the best place in Cardiff to hear live jazz with a varied weekday programme that includes ragtime bands, Latin jazz, blues and acoustic groups.
There is a small dance floor that fills up during the livelier gigs and a disco on Saturday nights. One of the few clubs to offer action throughout the week, its three floors showcase an eclectic mix of live music and DJs. Opened in , its unusual shape is the result of its architects, the Seymour Harris Partnership, having to fit the venue into a cramped space. Its role as a conference hall may have been overshadowed somewhat by the Millennium Centre, but audiences have remained constant and its creative programme has taken on the challenge from the newcomer.
The club also offers an intimate setting for live music and has hosted a range of acts from indie, jazz and blues to pop and singer-songwriters. This is a purpose built venue on the waterfront with theatre-style seating, a bar and restaurant. Founded in , the New Theatre is one of the principal playhouses in Cardiff. It is host to touring productions of plays, musicals and dance shows, plus pantomimes at Christmas.
When it was built the stage was one of the biggest in the country and only London theatres could boast larger. This playhouse has a resident company and hosts national and international tour groups in its main and studio theatres. The company aims to make a contribution to the development of Welsh theatre through its diverse and distinct programme.
Performances are in both Welsh and English. It has already established an international reputation as an arts complex and is home to organisations such as the Welsh National Opera and Diversions - the Dance Company of Wales.
Performances range from blockbuster West End musicals, stand-up comedy and urban music to opera, ballet and dance. Backstage tours are available. Located in central Cardiff, near the Millennium Stadium, this hotel has stylish and comfortable bedrooms, all decorated in neutral colours and natural pastels. The hotel also has an indoor pool, gym, sauna, steam bath and whirlpool. The Elements Restaurant and Bar downstairs offers good food and drinks. This is a lovely boutique hotel located on Cardiff's oldest Georgian terrace, right in front of the new Millennium Centre and around the corner from the city's revamped waterfront area.
Rooms all non-smoking are individually designed with solid furniture, exquisite linen and good lighting. The hotel also has an on-site restaurant and bar with Wi-Fi access available in all rooms.
The central, modern 5-star Cardiff Hilton has elegant bedrooms and suites, many with spectacular views across the city and over Cardiff Castle. There is also an award-winning restaurant, Razzi, as well as a bar, a health club, gym and spa and a 20m 66ft pool. The staff's attentiveness has been acknowledged with tourism awards, while each room comes with soft beds, large LED TVs and lovely bathrooms.
This, in other words, is a design hotel for budget travellers. There are 81 comfortable rooms, all with ensuite bathroom and tea and coffee making facilities.
Some rooms offer spectacular views. Mrs Magpie On a bit of break The worst gig of their life was in this place, Gassy Jacks in Cathays. They were pleased they all got out uninjured. I'm long since left ddraig, and thanks for the welcome.
Gassy Jacks was where I had a first date once, I should have known it was doomed from the fact he chose there of all places! Only went to the Casablanca once, it shut down soon after I moved to Cardiff, but spent a fair bit of time in the Big Windsor.
The Docks is shit in comparison these days. The Square Club weren't too bad apart from the bogs and falling downstairs into the sewage seepage from those bogs. Much preferred it when they started playing house and having all nighters to the grim indy nights. Crikey memory lane, I remember the Moon club I was there the night it caught fire, there was a firemans strike and the army came to put it out in a green goddess.
I Used to go to the Casablanca regularly and the Dowlais, then there was Montys, the Terminus which became Sams bar, Paradise garage used to have a punk night and there was a club in one of the arcades called the Soho High Tech club, the square club used to be gothy upstairs and more discoey downstairs, happy days. Supine Rajah's on Cathedral rd. I presume that place is long gone! Hippo, amazing Soundsystem. Full of drugged up ravers and sweat rain from the ceiling. Click to expand Hocus Eye.
Snap, crop, scrap crap R. It may surprise some of you that I went to the New Moon in Cardiff a few times. I was a student there in doing a post-grad year. Up the narrow stairs at the narrow end of the triangular based building and entering the room on the same wall as the band. Between the entrance and the band was the toilet door which meant that as you emerged from the toilet you were dazzled by the stage lights pointing at you.
I don't remember much more about it apart from that it was cheap. I haven't been to the new Moon club yet but I'm sure it'll be rather posh compared to the original! Anyone remember the old Taff Vale pub close to the Capital?
Gromit International Man of Misery. Top Rank editor? Are you that old? Had a lifetime VIP card. Then they went and closed so that card lied, it wasn't for my whole lifetime at all Had to make do with CoCo Savanas, the Dog and Duck and the Toucan Club. I'd forgotten about the Square Club. Those stairs were treacherous when wet. Get 4 rounds in before licensing hours ended 2am The Dog and Duck served till 4am illegally till they got caught and closed down. Gromit said:. The Stage Door used to get around the licencing by serving everyone a plate of chilli, thus giving them some sort of licence to stay open late.
Older than time itself. I saw The Clash at the Top Rank. Had to make do with CoCo Savanas. The Top Rank, what a place! Used to go Saturday mornings to the kids dance. They played lots of Motown to my recollection. I particularly remember loving it when they played 'Resurrection Shuffle', that song still evokes vivid memories of dancing in the Top Rank.
After the dance was over, me and my friends used to go to the cafeteria in Woolies where my mum and her friend worked and her friend would give us free tomato soup and bread. I saw the Ramones at the Top Rank years later and maybe the Stranglers too, tho can't be sure! One of my faves for a while was the Casa Blanca, tho' I remember being scared shitless of one of the girls of a very well-known local family who I had inadvertently pissed off.
It never came to anything, but the fact that I can still recall her steely stare in the mirror in the loos goes to show how much she did frighten me! Lloyds was pretty cool, and the Philharmonic was good for a while.
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