Pubs
10 Downing Street
Expensive place, nice music, good crowd, but small dance floor.
Bottles and Chimney
Large spacious pub with plenty of room to dance. Plays an eclectic variety in music.
Firangi paani
Sparks
Redone pub, nice hip ambience, reasonable rates.
Torque (The pub)
No cover charge, large screen TVs for sports fans, a separate smoking room, reasonable prices, good food, and nightly dance music mixed by resident and guest DJs Monday-Sunday; Saturday night is ladies night ladies drink for free 8PM-10PM.
Passport
Bars
Touch
Upscale, celebrity hang-out, great place but very expensive. Has a dress code, shoes mandatory.
Hydrate
Elegant bar at Hampshire Plaza.
Seventh Heaven
Nice rooftop bar and restaurant.
Liquids Again
Sleek, trendy lounge bar.
Fashion (FTV)
Trendy lounge bar.
There is plenty to do at night in Hyderabad, though local regulations have most places serving last drinks by 11PM. On weekdays, drinks in the some of the pubs have best offers, as most clubs are empty until Thursday or Friday nights, when the clubbers emerge. But the sheer number of nightlife spots makes it hard to choose which ones to list. As a general rule they tend to be clustered around Begumpet and Road No.1, Banjara Hills.
Alcohol is available easily from numerous Liquor Shops, known as wine shops in local parlance, spread across the twin cities, in restaurants with bars attached includes most upscale ones and in pubs.
WARNING: Drunken driving is not tolerated and police enforce the rule strictly. After 11PM almost all the roads have police patrols and check drunk driving. If caught you may end up paying fines, apart from vehicle being seized and couple of rounds to police station in worst scenarios.
Some of the good pubs and bars are part of hotels, and they have been covered along with their hotel listing under Sleep.