Without a doubt, the country’s finest nightlife is found in Santo Domingo. For starters, the restaurants rival those of any cosmopolitan city in the world. Whether your choice of restaurant is in the modern Naco - Winston Churchill area, Gazcue, the Malecon or the Colonial City, be prepared to discover perhaps the largest and finest selection of restaurants of any Caribbean city. Several of the larger hotels feature casinos.
   Dominicans dine late, as you will notice, with restaurants standing empty at around 6 pm and filling with patrons after 8 pm. After-dinner activities abound for an evening spent on the town. Begin with an outing to the National Theater, with its weekend-toweekend schedule of cultural events and

world-famous performers. Join the city’s youthful population that conglomerates at the plush discos and fashionable clubs of the Naco-Winston Churchill-Piantini (Polígono Central) area. The small bars and cafes of the Colonial City (La Zona for the young set) stay open until late on weekends. Casa de Teatro culture center has varied nightly performances and Hard Rock Café that opened in 2006 features monthly concerts with music world legendary performers.
   If merengue, salsa and bachata are what you’re looking for there is Jet Set Discotheque, across from where Presidente beer is manufactured.
    Or the Ozama Bridge to the Zona Oriental, where large dance halls feature live popular group bands on holiday evenings

and weekends. You will note the many “colmadones”, which are small grocery stores that have evolved into open-air bars since the popularization of the newer, larger supermarkets that have opened in those areas.
   Casinos welcome tourists late at night in several city hotels.