Things get a lit­tle dif­fer­ent in town once the sun goes down. For many, includ­ing us, this is the best time of day. What do we do in the dark­ness? Well that would be telling, but these are the places you’ll find us.

Kaf­fee Eis — (Courte­nay Place)
Open till 11am on week­nights and mid­night on week­ends, Kaf­fee Eis offers a pop­u­lar alter­na­tive to cof­fee and dessert for local din­ers. Whether it’s fru­gal­i­ty or just love of a good gela­to, it’s a com­mon sight to see Courte­nay Place filled with late-night cone-lick­ers.

Mighty Mighty
What can we say about the mag­nif­i­cent Mighty that their pile of TAWAs from every year does­n’t already tell you? Eccen­tric, ran­dom and fun, there’s always some­thing and some­one shak­ing at Mighty, and if you need even more enter­tain­ment, try and fig­ure out which Welling­ton­istas wrote what graf­fi­ti in the bath­rooms…

Mighty Mighty: Upstairs 104 Cuba Street

Hooch

Either you’ve had a few too many deli­cious rum cock­tails, or the wall­pa­per real­ly is throb­bing and com­ing alive. Despite its loca­tion on Courte­nay Place, Hooch is gen­er­al­ly full of the best kind of peo­ple — scal­ly­wags — and the staff make fab­u­lous con­coc­tions to put you in the most socia­ble of moods. Don’t be sur­prised to find peo­ple wear­ing hors­es’ heads or the bar staff in tutus. Just go with the flow.

Hooch: 46 Courte­nay Place


Havana Bar
Open late for shak­ing it, Havana Bar can be a tight squeeze on the dance floor but some­times get­ting up close and per­son­al is just fine. They have a new tapas menu and a mock moji­to that is a fav with those abstain­ing from the rum cock­tails.

Havana Bar: 34 Wigan Street Te Aro

Hawthorn Lounge
A per­fect place to frock up or get Chap­pish, the Hawthorn Lounge is an oasis of class sur­pris­ing­ly close to Courte­nay. As long as you can han­dle your liquor like a grown-up, strut up the stairs, slide into a leather chair by the fire and get served by the MacKen­zie broth­ers.
Marsh­mal­lows, pok­er, live piano, swingers and all kind of oth­er late night action.

Hawthorne Lounge: 82 Tory Street Te Aro