Luxe Beat Magazine JULY 2015 | Page 19

Travel Since the concept of ‘last-call’ isn’t used here, many partyers can be found strolling the beach at sunrise. Big spenders will love the quality cocktails served at the intimate Imperial Craft Cocktail Bar, hidden within the unassuming Imperial Hotel, where the veteran bartenders’ mission statement is to create a temple to the lost art of the cocktail -- which makes it extra nice that Imperial was recently voted “Best Bar in Africa and the Middle East.” Shpagat (the name roughly translates to ‘spread your legs’) is another multi-purpose, duplex venue; part pop-up store, part cozy coffee house, at night it turns into a laid-back, mo