Clubs and Nightlife

Club Cafe’s long-running Monday night Drag Bingo pairs bingo rounds with queens, prizes and full dinner and cocktail service. The Back Bay venue is a cornerstone of Boston LGBTQ nightlife.

A high-energy night of nonstop K-pop hits takes over Royale, from girl-group anthems to the latest idol chart-toppers. Dance until 2 AM with Boston’s K-pop fandom in the Theater District. 18+.

South African amapiano star Tyler ICU, the producer behind the global hit ‘Mnike,’ plays a rare early-evening Sunday set at The Grand. A chance to catch one of the amapiano movement’s biggest names in an intimate Seaport club setting.

ZuZu is the small, jewel-toned room tucked into the Middle East complex on Mass Ave in Central Square, and it punches far above its size after dark. The space works double duty as a restaurant and club, so you can settle in early for a bite before the room flips into one of Cambridge’s most…

Every Friday, Havana Club’s big dance hall on Green Street in Central Square turns into one of New England’s largest Latin dance socials. The night opens with beginner and intermediate lessons — no partner or pre-registration required — before the floor gives way to a social that runs deep into the night. The mix leans…

The Sunday tea dance is a gay nightlife tradition older than disco, and Club Café keeps it alive every week in its Moonshine Room on Columbus Avenue, where the South End meets Back Bay. Boston’s longest-running LGBTQ+ club fills the floor with high-energy vocal house and video mixes, turning Sunday evening into the friendliest dance…

Cisco Brewers’ Seaport outpost brings a slice of Nantucket to the waterfront on Northern Avenue, and it’s about as unbuttoned as Seaport nightlife gets. The sprawling open-air beer garden pours Cisco standbys like Grey Lady and Whale’s Tale alongside Triple Eight cocktails and Nantucket Vineyards wines, with wood-fired pizza, tacos, and clam-shack classics like lobster…

Royale’s gold-trimmed ballroom on Tremont Street spends most weekends as a Theater District dance club, but on concert nights it becomes one of Boston’s best-sounding standing rooms — and Wunderhorse are exactly the kind of band it flatters. The British outfit, built around songwriter Jacob Slater, deals in raw, nerve-ends guitar rock that has earned…

BIJOU sits on Stuart Street in the Theater District, a boutique club that trades on intimacy where its bigger rivals trade on scale. The room is built around a proper dance floor ringed with lounge seating and VIP sections, dressed in moody black-and-gold, with a sound-and-light rig that punches well above the club’s footprint. Saturdays…

Mémoire is the nightclub buried in the gold-leafed heart of Encore Boston Harbor in Everett, just across the Mystic from Boston proper, and it is unapologetically the most opulent dance floor in the region. The 8,000-square-foot room layers marble tables, plush leather, and glistening chandeliers under intelligent lighting and a Funktion-One sound system, with world-class…