Nightlife
Bizarrely the Tartan Army (the ‘disorganisation’ of football fans who faithfully follow the Scottish national side) are credited with kick-starting the city’s nightlife in the 1990s after decades of Soviet dreariness. The two bars they set up after a football match in Tallinn, the Nimeta, Suur-Karja 4, and the Nimega, Suur-Karja 13, are still going strong and are a good place to meet locals praticising their English. Overlooking Town Hall Square, Molly Malone’s, Mundi 2, is a better than average Irish theme pub with a sunny terrace in summer. With stag parties increasingly invading all of the above, the local trendies have moved onto chic lounge-style bars such as Kaheksa, Vana-Posti 8, Pegasus, Harju 1, and the Stereo Lounge, Harju 6. For live music the veteran Guitar Safari, Muurivahe 22, seldom disappoints, while Saku Suurhall, Paldiski 104b, is a massive venue used for major gigs. Tallinn’s club scene is fairly lively with the enormous Decolte, Ahtri 10 (website: www.decolte.ee), fun when it is open, joined by Hollywood, Vana-Posti 8 (website: www.clubhollywood.ee/est), in the old town with its steady diet of techno and its dubious clientele of teenage girls and rough men.
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