History Main / BarFullOfAliens

* ''VideoGame/FortunesRun'' have one of these early on, including a stage filled with human and ''alien'' strippers.

%%* ''VideoGame/TheSpaceBar'' has one of these. The premise is that you must travel within the memories of the patrons to solve a crime.

* In ''Film/UltramanGeedTheMovieConnectThemTheWishes'', turns out there's a ''sake'' bar in a seedy downtown Okinawa ally, which provides clientele for plenty of recurring alien species from the series. Riku (the human alter-ego of Series/UltramanGeed) tries infiltrating said bar to meet his then-unknown contact, only to unintentionally piss off a rowdy [[Series/ReturnOfUltraman Nackle-seijiin]] who tries starting a fight against Riku with several other aliens, but then Riku's contact reveals himself to be Gai Kurenai - the human form of Series/UltramanOrb. Who quickly beats up all the aliens without transforming.

* In ''Anime/OutlawStar'' there're plenty of space bars, the first one seen in "Clyde's Bar", one frequently visited by Gene Starwind before he went to travel into space (usually with humans, but in the first chapter Gene had to fight a cyborg) and later there's "Blue Heaven", an asteroid which is a little city (plenty of bars, by the way) considered as a popular place for outlaws.

* An issue of ''ComicBook/StarWarsDarthVader'' has a group of criminals planning a heist in a seedy bar full of aliens.
* The "Bar with No Doors" was a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin bar with no doors]], where the magical inhabitants of [[Franchise/MarvelUniverse Marvel]]'s New York liked to hang out in some ''Comicbook/DoctorStrange'' runs. Why is this here? Well, for starters the owner/bartender was a floating [[BrainInAJar head in a jar]], and patrons ranged from mortal spell-casters to freaking Man-Thing when he was in the neighbourhood. Why the past tense? Because the assholes frequenting it managed to piss off Comicbook/{{Loki}}, who made the whole place disappear in retaliation.
* In ''ComicBook/TheBraveAndTheBold'' story arc ''The Lords of Luck'', ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} needs to hire ComicBook/{{Lobo}} to take her to planet Rann, and her "guide" insists on stopping by every seedy alien bar he knows along the way.
* In ''[[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League United]]'' #5, four Leaguers -ComicBook/GreenArrow, ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, [[ComicBook/StargirlDCComics Stargirl]] and Comicbook/AnimalMan- barge in Block-C20, a derelict space station turned into a bar for all stripes of alien bounty hunters.

* The ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}'' films feature The Poisoned Apple, where some of the tougher fairy tale characters hang out.

* ''Franchise/StarWars'' has many of these, which serve to show how truly diverse The Galaxy is even if our heroes only visit a few important locations in the films:

** The infamous ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial'' has a musical number there expanding a little on the clientele.
** In ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', Anakin and Obi-Wan pursue Zam Wessell into The Outlander's Club in the lower levels of Coruscant. The clientele includes Twi'leks and Rodians as well as other classic species of the franchise in the background and a [[RubberForeheadAliens Balosar]] vendor named Elan [[MeaningfulName Sleazebaggano]] who tries to sell Obi-Wan [[FantasticDrug "death-sticks"]].
** In ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', there is one of these on the planet Takodana, run by the orange alien Maz Kanata, whom Rey, Finn and Han Solo seek out for help. The scene might be a deliberate CallBack to the Mos Eisley Cantina from ''Film/StarWarsANewHope''. This scene introduces many new species to the franchise, like the Ubdurians, the Culisetto, the Dowutins, the Haassk and the Blarina to name a few.

* ''Film/DungeonsAndDragons2000'' has a fantasy version. The bar is full of orcs, goblins, dwarves and what seem to be gargoyles...
* ''Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'' has another fantasy setting: a bar run by a goblin mobster played by Creator/RonPerlman and full of both human and non-human clients.
* ''Film/StarTrek2009'': Kirk meets Uhura in one of this multi-species bars. He even starts hitting on her to the dismay of the alien in-between the two.

* The principal setting in the ''[[Literature/TheDracoTavern Draco Tavern]]'' short stories. The bar is actually on Earth (in Greenland) but caters to the various alien species visiting our planet.
* Creator/SpiderRobinson's ''Literature/CallahansCrosstimeSaloon'' series of short stories and novels is set in Callahan's Place, a bar located off Route 25A somewhere in Suffolk County, Long Island. [[TheBartender Tended]] by the [[FightingIrish compassionate but no-nonsense]] [[GeniusBruiser Mike Callahan]], the bar is known as a place that will be found by anyone who needs to. The regulars, while mostly human, include aliens, time travellers, a [[TalkingAnimal talking dog]] and a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]]. [[spoiler:After the bar's destruction by [[NuclearOption a pocket nuke]], the subsequent bars continue to amass patrons, including a were-beagle, an artificial intelligence that grew from the early internet, a half-human half-púca, a cluricaune, and UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla!]]
* In ''Literature/AFireUponTheDeep'', Ravna encounters the Skroderiders Blueshell and Greenstalk (basically sentient trees) in her favourite bar ''The Wandering Company'', though [[YouAllMeetInAnInn not by coincidence]] as they are seeking her out. When the man she's with suggests they go looking for more familiar-looking company to drink with, she has to point out they're the [[InsignificantBluePlanet only humans in thousands of light-years]].
* Creator/JoeHaldeman's short story "A Tangled Web" features a tavern like this on Morocho III, called Lucille's. [[note]]In a background note accompanying the story which appears in ''Dealing in Futures'', Haldeman writes that he and a fellow science fiction author were having a discussion in which Haldeman had expressed admiration for the cantina scene in ''Star Wars''. His fellow author was less impressed, saying that the "aliens in a bar" scene was a staple in science fiction stories. But Haldeman had never had such a thing in any of ''his'' stories, which compelled him to write one into "A Tangled Web". [[/note]]

* Shanko's Hive in the ''Literature/YoungJediKnights'' books. Shanko is a spider-like alien and his bartender is a multi-armed humanoid with eyes on every side of his body. In the bar's first appearance Tenel Ka accidentally orders a GargleBlaster and [[DiscreetDrinkDisposal pours it into a potted plant]] that turns out to be a patron rather than a decoration. Another time, two patrons of different species clink glasses and their drinks react explosively with one another.

* In ''Series/{{Angel}}'' Lorne's bar Caritas is run by and for demons living in the human world. In Caritas, violence is forbidden and demons go there to relax and sing karaoke.

** In "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS04E02WhateverHappenedToMrGaribaldi Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi]]" Citizen G'Kar [[spoiler:is captured by the Centauri]] in one of these.
* The famous Tucana Bar in ''Series/BattlestarGalactica1978'' with Diana Ross as the alien Tucana Sisters with multiple mouths and eyes.
* Willy's place is a BadGuyBar in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', the owner Willy himself is human but his clientele is exclusively demonic (vampires, demons and the like).

* As befits a show exploring the adventures of a bounty hunter in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' universe, the main character of ''Series/TheMandalorian'' goes to a lot of these places. Indeed, the opening scene of the first episode has him entering one on an icy hellhole of a planet in search of a target. He also frequents a cantina on the planet Nevarro, as this is where he is usually given new assignments. Mando even gets to visit the Mos Eisley cantina (and to sit in the booth once occupied by Han Solo and Chewbacca) although, in the wake of Jabba the Hutt's demise and the fall of the Empire, the Cantina is a shadow of its former self.
* In the ''Series/RedDwarf'' episode ''[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIIBetterThanLife Better Than Life]]'', we see several exotic-looking creatures at the bar inside the virtual reality. Given the show's strict application of the AbsentAliens trope, it is likely they were Genetically Engineered Life Forms, though Rimmer did have an obsession with aliens in the early seasons so if they are aliens, they might be conscious/subconscious creations of his.
* Quark's in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', owned by JerkassWithAHeartOfGold Quark and a very frequent scenario on the series. It even has a recurrent silent alien character named Morn based on Norm from ''Series/{{Cheers}}''.
* The second season of ''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}'' introduces a bar where almost all of the customers are benevolent aliens who just want to live a peaceful life on Earth, but are under the threat of CADMUS, an organisation that wants to eliminate all aliens on Earth.

* The sci-fi game ''VideoGame/FortunesRun'' have one of these early on, including a stage filled with human and ''alien'' strippers.

* In ''VideoGame/RebelGalaxy'' you'll probably be meeting a lot of people, both humans and aliens, in bars on space stations. The first NPC you talk to is actually an alien who owns one of those bars.
* There's an early Windows adventure game called ''VideoGame/TheSpaceBar'' that's one of these. The premise is that you must travel within the memories of the patrons to solve a crime.
* A recurring theme in the ''VideoGame/SpaceQuest'' series, from the Rocket Bar on Kerona in the first game, the Space Bar in ''Space Quest V'', and Orion's Belt in ''Space Quest VI''.

* The eponymous cafe which is the primary setting for ''VisualNovel/SweetEnchantments'' serves the magical community, and while all of the main cast are humanoid, the clientele are much more widely varied, from pixies to plant-people, giant sapient snails, and a creature that can only be described as a human-sized praying mantis with the head of a cat.

* In ''Literature/PayMeBug'', ''Dyorbid's'' is a multispecies watering hole frequented by the crew of the ''Fool's Errand''.
* Cereal Bar in ''WebAnimation/BravestWarriors'', run by Cereal Master, is an outdoor bar on Mars.
* In ''WebAnimation/MinilifeTV'', the Burton Night Club, first introduced in the episode "[[Recap/MinilifeTVSeason4Episode11 Snowball's Late Night Adventure]]", is a monster-exclusive club that Snowball the vampire regularly visits in Season 5.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThreeTwoOnePenguins'', the Comet Lounge serves as this, with its variety of HumanoidAliens and StarfishAliens, as well as its bartender, Sol.

** In ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'' during "The Con of Rath", Ben's Team drops by at a space station serving as an alien restaurant due to Rath being hungry.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "Comfort and Joy", ComicBook/GreenLantern and [[ComicBook/{{Hawkman}} Hawkgirl]] spend their holiday at a tavern on a distant planet. Hawkgirl soon decides to start a BarBrawl just for fun.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' episode "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS1E5MeeseeksAndDestroy Meeseeks and Destroy]]", the eponymous duo visits a fantasy world with one of these, named "The Thirsty Step", built under one of the steps of the giants' Courthouse. It is visited by all sorts of weird fantasy creatures, including Mr. Jellybean.
** Blips and Chitz also counts, an intergalactic arcade room where all the players of the galaxy meet to play, there is a great variety of aliens and a video game is a simulation of a human life called "Roy: A Life Well Lived".
* In the second part of the ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' series premiere, Jack unwittingly walks into a nightclub featuring exotic alien dancers, which is also [[BadGuyBar patronized by alien criminals]]. Jack is [[BarBrawl forced to defend himself]] from a group of alien gangsters, who [[FantasticRacism don't want any humans in their presence]].

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SuperFriends'' Superman and Wonder Woman travel to future Metropolis in the year 3000 finding an alien bar with a MultiArmedMultitasking waitress and all. One of the aliens that they interrogate looks a lot like a [[Franchise/StarWars Jawa]].
* The ''WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons1983'' episode "The Hall of Bones" has the heroes visit a tavern full of weird critters from the old 1st edition Monster Manual. Given the setting, they're not aliens ''per se,'' but the tavern is clearly based on [[Film/StarWarsANewHope Mos Eisley.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheChubbChubbs'', the Ale-E-Inn has various creatures, most of them the same species as Meeper, but also many other well-known sci-fi characters, for example [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader and Yoda]] arm wrestling.1