Topic summary
Sports bars
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Bar (establishment).
Entertainment
- Arcade bars, in which the bar have video games on cabinets and consoles
- Blues bars, specializing in the live blues style of music
- Comedy bars, specializing in stand-up comedy entertainment
- Dance bars, which have a dance floor where patrons dance to recorded music. Typically, if a venue has a large dance floor, focuses primarily on dancing rather than seated drinking, and hires professional DJs, it is considered to be a nightclub or discothèque rather than a bar.
- Karaoke bars, with nightly karaoke as entertainment
- Music bars, specializing in live music (i.e. concerts). Piano bars are one example.
- Drag bars, which specialize in drag performances as entertainment
- Salsa bars, where patrons dance to Latin salsa music
- Sports bars, which are furnished with sports-related memorabilia and theming, and typically contain a large number of televisions used to broadcast major sporting events for their patrons.
- A tiki bar offers a fully immersive and entertaining environment, including tropical cocktails, tiki carvings, exotica music, a dark, windowless space with light fixtures lending a soft glow, and nautical brick-a-brac that hints at romantic travels to exotic lands.
- Topless bars, where topless female employees dance or serve drinks. In India, these bars are called dance bars, which is distinct from the type of "dance bar" discussed above.