Baluga Bar & Club

Head down Church Street on a Friday or Saturday and you'll feel it before you see it: that low rumble of bass, the glow spilling onto the pavement, the queue of locals ready for a proper night. Baluga's got the polish of somewhere that takes its drinks seriously—the cocktails are genuinely well-made, not the watered-down stuff you get in half the bars around town—but it never tips into pretentious. The real magic happens when the DJ gets going and the dancefloor fills up. It's where Preston comes to let loose, whether you're after a sophisticated aperitif upstairs or sweating it out to house music in the club below.