Chueca Bar closes its doors on June 12, 2026, and Santiago loses something it only gained in November 2019: the country's first self declared feminist and lesbian bar. Publicist Macarena Cortés and lawyer Carminia Vásquez named it for Madrid's gay quarter, staffed it entirely with women, and stocked the fridge from the Comunidad de Mujeres Cerveceras. The Clinic's farewell piece in March quoted the idea the founders set out to break: that if you were a lesbian, you had to be somewhere hidden.
Chueca was the opposite of hidden, a corner room at Rancagua and Condell with dolls on the walls, shoes hanging from the ceiling, and a Mapuche flag over the bar. Google reviewers rate it 4.4 across 667 reviews. Where Bar de René, a few blocks east, defends the old Barrio Italia, Chueca proved the barrio could still mint a new institution. It made six and a half years.
Until the 12th, the kitchen still runs its mostly vegan menu and the weeknight program still stands: singles Tuesdays, polyamory Wednesdays, talks Thursdays. Go while the going exists.
The room is kitsch on purpose: dolls, hanging shoes, thrifted everything, plus a terrace working the corner. EveryQueer profiled it in 2025 and read the decor correctly, as a refusal to take respectability seriously.
The crowd is women and the broader queer community, with allies welcome and the energy shifting by the night of the week. DJ sets and karaoke carry Fridays and Saturdays until 2am.
Not every review is a valentine. Service is great, food is shocking, runs one Google dissent from 2023. The 4.4 average suggests the dissent lost the vote.
What to order
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Las chuecas
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A women brewed craft beer
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The sangria pitcher
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The banh mi