Café Mambo

Sunset Strip

  • Café Mambo
  • Café Mambo
  • Café Mambo
  • Café Mambo
  • Café Mambo
  • Café Mambo
  • Café Mambo
  • Café Mambo
  • Café Mambo
  • Café Mambo


Buzzing with excitement, San An, indeed the World's most famous 'clubbing' bar, Mambo is THE premier club scene haunt, a beautiful beach bar that's effortlessly sexy and self-confident, packed with personality and powered by an electrifying energy surge generated by endless cutting-edge sounds. It's a one-off, a true original, a mystifying 'it' factor making it so much more vital and 'alive' than anywhere else. Mambo may have been built to an architects plan back in 1994, but never to a pre-conceived formula. It's about far more than the sum total of its bricks and mortar, the tiered terraces, or even those lush mosaic details. Virtually every superstar DJ on earth has played here, for free, with all of the Pacha pre-parties happening throughout 2003...Sanchez Mondays, Emerson Tuesdays, Emerson Wednesdays etc etc etc. Primarily due to its unique ambience, a welcoming vibe created by a happy collision of disparate elements - some considered, others accidental, though always natural and unforced. Ultimately everything that makes Mambo that bit extra special feeds off the positive buzz generated its characters, especially those charismatic key DJ residents, both past and present - namely Jason Bye, Steve Lawler and, above all, the current Pete Gooding. And that's how it should be, because, good looking as it is, the true beating heart and soul of Mambo is, of course, its magical music soundtrack.