Booze Cooperativa

Hosting underground music and art since 1988
Noteworthy for: Booze is a Not For Profit organisation aimed at helping artists and musicians. If an artist sells a piece of work from an exhibit, unlike art galleries, they don’t take commission.

Talk of the town: Booze is registered as a political headquarters, making it exempt from the little-enforced smoking ban.
When Booze first opened, it was something of a revolution. A café, bar, art gallery, gig venue, theatre, school, sprawling mansion and cozy home-away-from-home - it was a venue trying to do everything, and doing it all well.

The neo-classical three-storey building is a work of art in itself; industrial and minimal in places and bohemian and kitsch in others, with a music policy as varied. Come by day to join Athenians at the six metre long central table using the free Wi-Fi or playing chess, and watch coffees turn into beers by night as the place starts buzzing.