Barrio Bellavista is known as Santiago's bohemian quarter. Many of the city's intelligentsia and artists live there, in a neighbourhood where boutique galleries and craft stores are commonplace. It's a popular haunt on nights out, when restaurants and bars stay open late. De Pablo a Violeta borrows from the tango houses of Buenos Aires - the first of its kind in Santiago.
Housed inside an early-20th century Spanish colonial residence, and with a newer theatre built at the rear, it's part-restaurant, part-cultural cabaret, part-cocktail bar where guests and performers mingle in the front room around an open barbecue and bar area. What sets it apart from other clubs is the performers themselves. Some are actors and poets; others are musicians, singers or dancers whose lively performances make you want to hop up from your bar stool to join in the fun. For the final number they come together as one, dancing and singing with maximum intensity.