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Buenos Aires, Argentina > Buenos Aires nightlife > The Roxy Bar The Roxy BarGorriti 5568 (@ Libertador) ; Tel. + (011.54.11) 4777-1230
When the cabs pull slowly off Libertador and head around the windy street and under the bridge to the Roxy, fun seekers know that they have stumbled on to something special. The Roxy Bar is located under a dark bridge near the Planetarium on the outskirts of Palermo, just far enough from society to ensure that the place is properly sinful. This is a blissfully fun, decadent foray into that famous Buenos Aires nightlife that you have heard all about. On weekends, The Roxy is sparsely populated around 3am but by 4am it is packed wall-to-wall with writhing, sweating, gyrating bodies. Good luck making it to a bathroom without spilling beer. This is a place that a 25 year old club-goer may feel old, a place where they impertinently charge a $20AR cover (NOT including a drink) and incredulously charge members of the male species $5AR more. Yet, somehow The Roxy pulls of the heist, fills itself to the brim, and leaves everyone feeling they have had a great time. The Roxy is composed of two large rooms with 3 bars to keep everyone properly satiated – though the crowd makes the wait long. The two rooms always differ in music selection and The Roxy often hosts live acts (check their website for current selections). Naturally, lighting is dark, and the dance floors are strobe lit so that you can feel like you are in an X rated Charlie Chaplin flick. Music ranges from Michael Jackson and Madonna to Sublime and Guns and Roses. These are the songs that we all sing in the shower and though consistency could be stronger – choice is impeccable, even when it’s 7am, the floor is sticky, and money is running out, it’s hard to stop your hips shaking. Though The Roxy boasts a De Autor restaurant, it is for pre-club appetites and the reason to visit is to dance until the sun comes up, then dance some more. The drinks are predictably overpriced. The cheapest beer sets customers back $8AR and prices escalate when you move to cocktails. It’s an expensive, barely-legal, booty-shaking night on the town – and definitely worth checking out no matter how old you are. —The Roxy Bar review by Clare Nisbet
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