Blues & Cues

Pool tables and live music entertain an international crowd 1 Reviews

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From Time Out Dubai Eating Out 2007

Dubai might be multinational, but it certainly isn’t a melting pot. Each tribe has its own restaurants, cafés, bars and even nightclubs. But Blues and Cues is one of those rare places that don’t discriminate.

By day and during weeknights, this place is a sleepy little pool bar but at the weekends it erupts into a sweaty club where the dance floor is packed full of Filipinos, Arabs and Westerners, both male and female, cutting some rug to mid-90s dance classics.

But the highlight is the rock band, complete with dancing girls, who come on every hour or so to play versions of classic head-banging numbers.

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