别is often used to give others suggestions, for example, if your friend says he wants to go to a bar, but you don't want him to go there, then you can say 别去酒吧 to him。At the same time, you can also say 不要去酒吧to him.
But you can not use 别 to tell something about yourself, for example, if you don't want to go to a bar, you can not say 我别去酒吧, you can only say 我不去酒吧。