Botta or Ostrobotnia covers three floors of a building and has a restaurant, a dance floor and a small, intimate top-floor disco, all open into the small hours. The dance hall always has Finnish music on Saturdays. The place is especially popular with students. It offers club evenings and discos, along with many other cultural events, an Internet caf and a programme of happenings. Visitors under 18 are also welcomed.
Many clubs keep a low profile and build up a cadre of regular patrons.
Uudenmaankatu and the streets off it have become the centre of club life in the 90s. Art students, advertising people and younger business persons of both sexes are well-represented among the regulars that frequent the bars there. Gay clubs Most of the gay bars and restaurants in the city are in the Kamppi and Punavuori districts. This Week lists them and related events. All who want to hear live music have a great selection of venues to choose from, and there is certainly one among them that offers your favourite style.