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Tavern on Camac is a gay bar and nightclub in Center City that serves great cocktails, and transforms into a live piano bar several nights a week. The pianist always takes requests and has a huge selection of sheet music to choose from, plus mikes for anyone intrepid enough to join him - it starts slow, but by the end of the night everyone's up and singing! This is where we drowned our sorrows the night GW won again, despite our best efforts. As I wrote at the time: "We let it all out at one of Philadelphia's wonderful piano bars, with a pianist who was slightly surprised when fifteen drunken tearful Brits and their American friends settled in for a night of Cosmopolitans and howling along with country music."
www.tavernoncamac.com/ 243 Camac Street, Philadelphia, 19107
Bump is a gay/mixed bar and restaurant in Center City. Go for happy hour (5-7pm) when all cocktails are $3, or go later for dinner. I recommend the crab cakes with remoulade, rice and wilted spinach.
1234 Locust Street Philadelphia 19107;
www.bumplounge.com
Giovanni's Room is a three-floor extravaganza of lesbian and gay literature, spread over three floors in the heart of Philadelphia's Center City "gaybourhood".
345 South 12th Street;
www.giovannisroom.com
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