Nassau · Nightlife

A strip of Bahamian restaurants and bars on West Bay Street west of downtown, doing conch cracked or scorched, fried snapper, grilled shrimp and lobster tails with cornbread and mac and cheese. There is an open stage with seating for performances, and Junkanoo groups practise nearby in the run-up to Boxing Day and New Year.

Cable Beach resort complex with a casino and William Hill sports betting, Jon Batiste's jazz club running nightly shows, the Bond, Privilege and Nexus clubs, and by its own count more than 45 bars and lounges. This is where Nassau's late clubbing actually happens.

The first production craft brewery in The Bahamas, on Woodes Rogers Walk beside the cruise terminal downtown, with 16 taps and sport on the screens. Open 11am–6pm Monday to Thursday, 11am–9pm Friday and Saturday and 11am–5pm Sunday — an early evening rather than a late one.

Colonial mansion on West Hill Street with a Grand Award wine cellar and cognac collection, a cigar company where torcedores roll on site, and a restaurant doing Bahamian-influenced continental cooking. It is dinner, wine and a cigar rather than a bar crawl; call 242-302-9150 to book.

The parades run through the night and into the mornings of Boxing Day and New Year's Day, with costumed groups, goatskin drums and cowbells down Bay Street. Groups rehearse late at night for months beforehand, so you can hear it well outside the season even if you cannot see the parade.