Kampala Nightlife

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Capital Pub occupies an area with a tree as the centre and many bars and pool tables around. They play load African and American Hip Hop music. It's also an infamous hangout for prostitutes. Locals call the place "Kinnya". Capital Pub is the largest night club in Kabalagala. It is run by a Swiss emigre.

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0° 17' 54.3100" N 32° 36' 5.0700" E

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Miki's Pub is a restaurant and bar in the Munyonyo area in the south-east suburbs outside Kampala. The place is well known for barbecue food, especially pig. It's cheap to eat and drink. But it's not many taxis or Boda-Boda's here at night, so getting back to your hotel in Kampala can be hard.

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I know this is in my nightlife tips but I have probably spent more time here in the afternoon.

This is a great bar for chilling if you've walked from the centre of town and want to sit in the shade and watch the world go by with a frighteningly cold beer in hand.

This is an Indian run bar like a lot of businesses in Old Kampala but the customers here are a real mixed crowd. This is also the place in Kampala where I have seen the best pool being played.

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One of my favourite boozers in Kampala was the Top Pub. It was in the same building and more or less suronded by The Sax Pub.

Both of the these watering holes have moved, Sax to a spot overloking City square on kampala rd and Top Pub has moved to William Street. Sax is now a shadow of its former self. Top Pub is still pretty good the only problem there is a nutter went in and shot 8 people dead while I was in Kampala. Thankfully I was tucked up in bed at the time.

Dress Code: Hard hat, toe tecters, ear plugs, safety goggles.

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This place has been raved about on other VTers pages but sadly the pace of change in Kampala has left the City Bar behind. It is now not much more than a building site. The old outside terrace in front is now scattered with rubble if you can manage to look beyond the metal fence. I guess it will makeway for another ridculously big modern building. Shame indeed!

Capital pub is really more of a disco than a pub and a really good night out. Not all the girls here are working girls. Things are a bit cheaper here, you sometimes have to pay to get in but if you do you usually get 1st drink free. Good mix of music at Capital, loads of pool tables and a whole bunch of tellies if for some reason you want to watch TV.

Not worth going before 11 at night. Capital is outside the city in the area called Kabalagala you can get here by minibus from the taxi park or what impatient folk like myself do is haggle for a good price on the back of a Boda-boda (it’s always more coming back to town on a boda). There are loads of eating places in Kabalagala as well as other bars I like a Congolese bar a few doors away.

And there are some punters who manage to have a drink at all hours at my favourite watering hole in Kampala. This place can get choka from around midnight to the early hours most nights of the week.

A lot of punters can been seen outside the gaff on the pavement having a scoop but this is actually another bar "Top Pub" next door. To enter Sax you have to go down the moody alley passed the boncer, the barber and the rolex seller!

Dress Code: Any old clobber with your money pushed well out of sight! It is not unsual to have your pocket felt just use a bit of nowse.