Zentra, Chicago

In this dark and velvety nightclub extra-ordinaire, with chain-mail corner booths, couches and lots of sinister red lighting, you cannot go wrong. At Zentra, the patio is dotted with trees strung with Christmas lights and speakers blaring disco and funk. The multicultural theme manifests itself in the belly dancers wiggling around the club and the "hookah girls," who offer you hits from a water pipe (sorry, it's filled with tobacco). The upstairs is always pounding with techno and house music that will leave your eardrums ringing and your nerve endings dulled.