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Luxembourg has a lively nightlife with lots of nightspots, pubs, dance clubs, bars, discothèques & cinemas offering excitement & entertainment. A copy of La Semaine à Luxembourg (The Week in Luxembourg) from Tourist Information Office at Place d'Armes will give you a list of hotspots in the city. |
Opening hours are fairly inconsistent, but bars usually stay open till around 1am and clubs till 3am. While you're out, try one of the local pilsener ales such as Mousel or the tasty Bofferding brews, which are the most widely available. Good bars include the funky Chiggeri, rue du Nord 11, which attracts a lively, youthful crowd to its groovy Old Town premises. For a slightly older crowd is the Café des Artistes, Montée du Grund 2, a charming café-bar close to the bridge in Grund with piano entertainmnet and Luxembourg singalongs. For clubs, there's Didjeridoo, rue Bouillon 31, Hollerich, a boisterous club west of the train station offering a wide range of sounds (Wed, Fri & Sat).
Two lively, youthful, interesting pubs in the old city are Um Piquet, rue de la Poste 30 and Club 5, 5 rue Chimay, a trendy bar with a good upstairs eatery. Down in the valley, Grund is blessed with several good pubs: Scott's, 4 Bisserwée, which serves Guinness and English Ale to a mostly expatriate crowd; Trader's Café, 9 Bisserwée, a popular watering hole across the street from Scott's, in an atmospheric old building; Pygmalion, 19 rue de la Tour Jacob, a typical Irish pub; and Malou, 57 rue de la Tour Jacob, a favored hangout for both locals and visitors.
Luxembourg cinemas show films in their original language, with subtitles in French and German where appropriate. American and other English-language first-run movies are often shown. Cinemas include Utopia, 16 av. de la Faiencerie, with five screens; and the ultramodern Utopolis complex, 45 av. John F. Kennedy, in the European Center on the Kirchberg plateau, with ten screens. Admission ticket to movies is around 8€.
A cool disco popular with students is Melusina, 145 rue de la Tour Jacob, which alternates between rock and jazz groups; it's open on Friday and Saturday from 11pm to 3am. For techno and house, head for Pulp, open on Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday from 11pm to 3am. If Latino is more your style, there's the hot-blooded Cuba Libre, 5 place des Bains open Monday through Thursday from 9pm to 1am, Friday and Saturday from 9pm to 3am.
From May to October, the Municipal Theater (Théâtre Municipal), rond-point Robert Schuman, presents major concert artists from around the world, in addition to concerts by the local Orchestre Symphonique RTL. There are also dance (ballet and modern) performances and musical revues by visiting artists year-round. Admission varies according to what's on, but on average you can expect to pay around 20€. Local dance and jazz school students have periodic performances at Théâtre des Capucins.
