Club

The Week
R. Guaicurus, 324

Dance dance revolution with two dance areas, pool and outdoor section.

Parks

Parque Zilda Natel
Av. Dr. Arnaldo, 995

Small skate park gets amateurs doing lip slides in a pool bowl with aqua-marine tiling and metal coping.

Vintage/second-hand

Brecho Volta ao Mundo
Av. Pompeia, 1463, Perdizes

More choice cuts of cool than you could shake a MGMT stick at.

Peruvian

Killa
R. Tucuna, 689, Perdizes

Despite appearances, counterman cutting up fish doesn’t make it Japanese.

Bar/pub

Berlin
R. Conego Vicente Miguel Marino, 85, Barra Funda

Chameleon of a club matches perfect-skin crowd unafraid to let screws loose.

Performance spaces

Cafe Concerto Uranus
R. Dr. Carvalho de Mendonca, 40

Kitschy performance space that takes on the old-school cabaret style of entertainment.

'90s rock

Neu
R. Dona Germaine Burchard, 421, Barra Funda

Unexpected indie rock house for friends in the middle of a residential neighborhood.

Club

Clash
R. Barra Funda, 969, Barra Funda

Flexes from dance venue to live show spot, from Andy Rourke to Afrika Bambaataa on stage.

Club

CB Bar
R. Brig. Galvão, 871, Barra Funda

Distinctly rockers’ bar inspired by a ’50s American diner provides new Brazilian bands the right to make noise.

Club

D-Edge
Al. Olga, 170, Barra Funda

First-rate dance music club with booming sound system attracts electronic music’s biggest headliners and the club kids (models, students, TV stars) who come to see them.