Hello & welcome to Sappho, a cool hang-out whose ambience affords a certain unique chill-out factor hard to find elswhere in Taipei - the live music program provides a platform for artists to further their musical inclinations, without having to “sell-out” to, say, a philistine materialist proprietor out to make a fast buck. But then again, you will not be subjected to 9000 decibels of in-your-face-death-metal or random noise generators, no matter how alternative, because at the end of the day, Sappho must take a stand & create its own sense of “cool” - leaving you to judge for yourselves - in fact our original aim was to make this space completely non-commercial, and register the club as a charity - but guess what - you can’t sell alcohol under the auspices of a charity - so until the laws change here, we’ll have to stick with the existing set-up.
Sappho started off as the name might suggest (i.e. associations with the Greek poet) leaning towards a female clientele; enter A-liang (of A-liang & Friends fame) who gradually ushered-in her music/arts friends to the club, and accordingly the gender mix soon went both ways, leaving only the bar tenders as the original Sappho-ettes (Mini, Xiao Yu & Bambi). Nowadays Sappho is frequented by a interesting mix of musicians, artists, creative types - often local Taiwanese, but also with a diverse international crowd. The sort of thing you’d never expect to find in Hong Kong, with its expat cultural apartheid scene, know wot i mean john. The pride of our bar is the cocktails & wines, but we also stock some Euro-beers. Tasty bar snacks too - there will be a link to our food reviews later.".
有別於大眾對於 LOUNGE BAR 的刻板印象,以古希臘女詩人命名的 SAPPHO 選擇避開熱門的地點,安靜第坐落在安合路的向內. 沒有其他 LOUNGE BAR的高調, 拘謹, 也沒有刻意營造出潮流的感覺, 走進門只有來到自家客廳那班舒適親切. 峰巢型的七彩 LED 地板隨著音樂變換顏色, 彎型的沙發也可以一來客人數隨性搬動,來配合客人的需求. 在 SAPPHO 的一角有可以容納 15-20 人的獨立空間, 給喜好隱私派對客人使用. 吧台旁DJ趨快也是SAPPHO 的另一特色. 擁有專業的混音及完整的音響設備, 特別適合不同的主題派對或現場音樂演奏.