Dance clubs, live music, rooftop bars, speakeasies, LGBTQ+ venues, listening bars and late-night dives in Carmel-by-the-Sea.
Dance clubs, live music, rooftop bars, speakeasies, LGBTQ+ nightlife, listening bars and late-night dives across Carmel-by-the-Sea, with where to go and what is worth the late night.
Barmel carries what remains of Carmel nightlife at San Carlos and 7th, craft cocktails with live music early and vinyl DJs running past midnight.
Tip: This is the village's latest regular closing time; weekend nights run to 01:30, an outlier in a town that sleeps by 22:00.
Terry's Restaurant + Lounge keeps live music in Doris Day's Cypress Inn in Carmel, cocktails and dogs side by side in the hotel's front room.
Tip: The lounge runs live music and welcomes dogs indoors, a Cypress Inn tradition dating to Doris Day's ownership of the hotel.
Dametra Cafe is Carmel's singing dinner: musicians move through the Ocean Avenue dining room most nights while the Mediterranean kitchen runs late.
Tip: Owners Faisal Nimri and Bashar Sneeh built the room around music; expect singing between courses and queues on weekend evenings.
The Star Bar rides the roof of Vesuvio at 6th and Junipero, a rooftop rarity in Carmel, first come and first served above the village pines.
Tip: No reservations ever; arrive before sunset for a rail seat, and note weeknights the rooftop closes at 22:00 sharp.