Le Violon Dingue

Latin Quarter


Students pack out the loud, lively ‘Crazy Violin’, with big-screen sports upstairs and the flirty ‘Dingue Lounge’ downstairs. Its name is a pun on the expression le violon d’Ingres, meaning ‘hobby’ in French because the celebrated painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres played fiddle in his spare time. Happy hour is 5pm to 10pm Tuesday to Saturday. Expect beer pong and other anglophone pub antics.


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