With menus with vignettes depicting sign language, lamps to call the waiter and the floor that vibrates according to the rhythm of music, the cafe seeks to impose itself in the city as the first one of its kind for the deaf population.
It is located in the trendy Chapinero neighborhood of the Colombian capital, surrounded by heavy metal, gay and reggae joints.
The No Words cafe has large screens playing music videos with the lyrics in sign language, and a dance floor that pulses with music to dancers who cannot hear it.
The menus are also translated into sign language and there are games such as Jenga or dominos for customers to play.
Vanegas and her partners Cristian Melo and Jessica Mojica all have good hearing, but dreamed of opening a cafe for the more than 50,000 people in Bogota who do not.
Colombia has more than 455,000 deaf or hard of hearing people, according to the last census carried out in 2005.
People with normal hearing also frequent the bar, which is as noisy as any other in the capital. But the difference is that here, most of the talking is done with hands.
All six waiters at the bar are deaf too, and even though many of the clients do not know sign language, they manage to convey their orders with gestures or by writing them down.
The bar also features small cards showing the basics of sign language for drinkers interesting in expanding their repertoire.
