The nightlife scene in Big D offers all varieties of bars and nightclubs. From the student-dense bars concentrated close to SMU to the super-hip and chic lowest Lower Greenville establishments, from the after work crowd at Dallas Alley to the flamboyant and gay crowd at Cedar Springs, Dallas has a watering hole for you. In brief: Deep Ellum is the place to go for live music and a young avant-garde crowd, Lower Greenville has everything from seventies fern bar holdouts to the newest martini bars and caters to the twenty-to-thirty-somethings, Dallas Alley in the West End is convenient for tourists and the after work crowd, and Cedar Springs in Oak Lawn is the epicenter for GLBT nightlife. Traditional Country and Western bars are included with a dance floor at area institutions.

Here are just a few suggestions out of the many choices for clubbing in Dallas. For traditional Country and Western dancing try the Top Rail Ballroom on Northwest Highway or Gilley’s Dallas. You can do some Texas two-stepping or just sit back and have some long neck beers.

Monica’s Aca y Alla for salsa dancing and Club Clearview are both in Deep Ellum. Purgatory Dallas offers five levels of dancing…from hell all the way up to heaven.

And finally the Round-up Saloon for gay Country and Western dancing, JR’s Bar & Grill and Sue Ellen’s all on Cedar Springs are gay and lesbian bars with a local flavor.