Paloma, with its Viking longboat bar and oddly placed support beams, may have the weirdest interior of any downtown venue, but the fact of the matter can’t be denied: it is a pretty lively place to find yourself late at night. Paloma is usually filled with people dancing with reckless abandon after two in the morning, or out on the balcony, catching their breath and chain-smoking like the cool kids they are. If you don’t have an after party to go to when the bars close, just stick around outside: people from Gaukurinn and Húrra often hang around there, smoking cigarettes, finishing their drinks and being social.

2013: Harlem (RIP)