The Velvet Bar

The Velvet Bar calls itself the only Latin club in Albania and runs as a lounge bar and club in the heart of the Blloku, in collaboration with the La Rosa Negra…The Velvet Bar calls itself the only Latin club in Albania and runs as a lounge bar and club in the heart of the Blloku, in collaboration with the La Rosa Negra dance school, with a resident DJ and live acts on Saturday nights. The programme is built around Latin dance rather than electronic sets, which makes it the odd one out among the Blloku's house-music rooms, and it draws the city's salsa and bachata crowd along with visitors from Latin America.

Tables can be booked online, and the events page lists what is coming, and the drinks list is cocktails first. For a visitor who dances, it is the one address in the capital where the crowd already dances properly.