Entertainment and Events

Just as it’s the center of Santiago’s restaurant scene, Barrio Bellavista [1] is the focus of the city’s nightlife—in a neighborhood where most clubs don’t open until midnight or 1 a.m., and hardly anybody goes before 2 a.m., it seems incredible that, during the Pinochet dictatorship, the city endured an 11 p.m. curfew.

There are also nightspots in and around Santiago Centro, around Providencia [2]’s Avenida Suecia, and near Plaza Ñuñoa, in the largely middle-class borough of the same name. Many bars and dance clubs, especially gay venues, have no obvious public signs except during opening hours.