Ramdam Bar

About

The newest addition to the Nice scene, open near the port since late 2023, and the most ambitious of them in what it tries to be. The bar calls itself a concept bar, store, exhibition space and music venue in one, and says it is the first LGBTQIA+ venue in France built around a dedicated art gallery.

It runs to 140 square metres, air-conditioned, with a bar, a street terrace, three lounges, the gallery and a backroom for men. Exhibitions change and the walls are given over to working artists. There are DJ sets, and the cruising and kinky nights that used to run under the Malabar Station name at a since-closed address now happen here.

The crowd is mixed across the letters rather than men-only, apart from the backroom. It sits a short walk from the LGBTQIA+ centre and place Garibaldi.