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Brasserie Societe Lutece, piazza Carlo Emanuele II 21. Open 1930-2300. Another popular haunt at aperitif time with a jovial informal atmosphere. You can also eat here. Café Blu, via Valprato 68, T 011 280251. Open 2100-0230. Music for all tastes on different nights in one of Turins most fashionable underground clubs. Hard rock, house and ska. Docks Arte, via Valprato 68. Open until 0400. One of the many unusual venues in these converted warehouses with jazz, exhibitions and DJ nights in constant evolution. Docks Home, via Valprato 68, T 0347 4210989. Open until 0400. A temple for the latest mixes of house and techno, but which also lays on enormous plates of aperitif snacks on Tuesdays. Thursdays are more rocknroll. Tessera AICS membership needed, although you may be able to bypass this as a temporary visitor. Dual, cia Cesare Battisti 17/d. Open 2030-0200. Very influenced by New York, this is a bar for trendy and affluent thirtysomethings with revival house music most nights, and occasional piano bar. Busy at aperitif time. Fish, via Valerio 5/b. Open 1900-0100. A popular aperitif bar with a surrealist-inspired themed decor. Hiroshima mon amour, via Bossoli 83, T 011 317427. Open 2100-0400. A reference point in Turins nightscape for decades, a grungy mecca for rock, reggae and techno nights. Luce e Gas, via IV Marzo 21/c. Open 1930-0200. Aperitif, dinner and after-dark all rolled into one, with lounge tunes on the ground floor and a post-ecclesiastical retro vibe in the converted crypt restaurant in the basement. Il lupo della steppa, via San Domenico. Hermann Hesse has long been revered by Italian hippies and this bohemian joint, evoking his novel Steppenwolf, is a mellow venue for jazz, cocktails and Viennese cakes.
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