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