Liceo Flamenco

If you love flamenco but don’t wanna spend 30 – 50 Euros at an expensive tablao, I recommend this cool and inexpensive bar where you can enjoy watching decent live flamenco performance while munching on yummy montaditos. According to my Malagueña friend, this place used to be a dance club before it was recently renovated into a flamenco tablao/​school. The show takes place upstairs on the 2^nd floor at night, and there is a flamenco class held downstairs on the first floor during the day time. The flamenco performance starts at 8:30pm every night and on Monday night the cover charge was only 3 Euros per person (!) Depending on the day, you may just get a recorded music instead of the accompanying live flamenco music. When we saw the show on weekday night, 4 female dancers performed for about an hour and they kept changing their costume for almost every song. Although I enjoyed the show, I can’t help but wish there was a male dancer too because it makes such a huge difference! Also the venue has a weird stage set up (you’ll know what I mean when you see it) with limited seatings so the reservation is a must. Considering the price, I can’t really compare this to the really powerful and spectacular flamenco performance I’ve seen at Arenal in Sevilla years ago because that won’t be fair. For a mere 3 euro cover, you get more than eyeful of flamencas dancing passionately, which is an amazing deal! I’m not sure if the price on other days is the same.
The food and drinks are cheap, I recommend their 6 Euros 4 montaditos combo in which you can choose from 4 different toppings. Their sliders (hamburguesas) are not bad, too. And for every drink, you get a small plate of jamon and aceitunas. 6 of us got 1 – 2 drinks each and shared a few plates of tapas and only paid about 10 euros each, including the cover charge. This is a fantastic deal guys, I bet this place is going to be even more popular!
Warning! — at the end of the show, the flamenco dancers will try to pick someone from the audience to dance with them. My naughty friends told them to pick me!!! My friends had a blast watching me making a fool out of myself, but oh well, whatever!