Kraków Entertainment

  1. 7 Club

    Still hanging in there after all these years, Kraków's oldest gay venue is a dance club at the weekend, with strip and drag shows to boot (and we're not talking a dress code here).

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  2. Black Gallery

    Underground pub-cum-nightclub with a modern aspect: split levels, exposed steel frame lighting and a metallic bar. It really gets going after midnight.

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  3. Caryca

    In the same building as grungy Łubu-Dubu and the erstwhile gay Kitsch is the more trendy and musically risk-taking Caryca on the 1st floor.

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  4. Ciemnia Club

    This is Kraków's premier gay bar with facilities intended for those seriously OFB (out for business). Ring and await appraisal/approval; this is Poland, after all.

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  5. Cień

    The enormous 'Shadow' attracts a perfect (as in fake tans) crowd with house sounds produced by DJs fresh in from Ibiza and great décor. A tough door policy will keep half your mates out.

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  7. CK Browar

    Serious tipplers will head for this microbrewery with its own cavernous drinking hall, and order the home brew in 3L tubes a metre high, which the wait staff bring to your table and fix onto special taps.

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  8. Cricoteka

    Cricoteka is the archive that documents the avant-garde (and now defunct) Cricot 2 theatre, created in 1955 by Tadeusz Kantor and the city's best-known theatre outside the national borders. Theatre buffs may be interested in visiting this place while the museum that will hold the documents is completed in Podgórze.

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  9. El Sol

    This Latino club reverberates to the sound of salsa, merengue, samba and bossa nova nightly.

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  10. Filharmonia Krakowska

    Classical music concerts are staged in venues throughout Kraków in the summer months but especially at Polonia House and the Church of SS Peter & Paul. During the rest of the year the Filharmonia Krakowska is home to one of the best orchestras in the country.

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  11. Fshut

    This subterranean Kazimierz club plays everything from reggae to house music every night, with guest DJs on the weekend. Arty offerings such as film screenings, exhibitions and fashion shows also take place.

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  13. Harris Piano Jazz Bar

    An active jazz haunt, Harris hosts jazz and blues bands most days of the week except Sunday at .

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  14. Jazz Club U Muniaka

    Housed in a fine cellar, this is one of the best-known jazz outlets in Poland, the brainchild of saxophonist Janusz Muniak, who often performs here. There are concerts most nights from .

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  15. Kino Mikro

    Cinemas that may have some art-house and quality mainstream movies on their programme include Kino Mikro .

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  16. Kino Paradox

    Cinemas that may have some art-house and quality mainstream movies on their programme include Kino Paradox .

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  17. Kitsch

    In the same building as grungy Łubu-Dubu you'll also find the erstwhile gay Kitsch, Kraków's popular last port of call, on the 2nd floor.

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  19. Le Scandale

    Smooth drinking hole with low black leather couches, ambient lighting and a gleaming well-stocked bar. Full of mellow drinkers sampling the extensive cocktail list.

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  20. Music Bar

    Not for serious clubbers (you know who you are), this complex, with a large bar in a covered courtyard and the rather chichi Light Box Gallery up the glass stairs, mostly attracts a young crowd.

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  21. Nic Nowego

    Nic Nowego 'Nothing New', run by a genuine Paddy, is a 'modern Irish café bar' and a welcome addition to the drinking scene in Kraków. It's a bright, modern place with a long bar, great atmosphere and good food.

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  22. Opera Krakowska

    The Opera Krakowska performs at the Teatr im J Słowackiego (Julius Słowacki Theatre; www.slowacki.krakow.pl; Plac Św Ducha 4) as there's no proper opera house in Kraków.

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  23. Piano Rouge

    This sumptuous jazz club and restaurant, in a cellar on the north side of the Main Market Square, is decked out with classic sofas, ornate lampshades and billowing lengths of colourful silk. There's live jazz every night.

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  25. Piec'Art

    This cosy cellar club tends to stage acoustic jazz on Wednesday and irregular gigs on other days.

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  26. Piwnica Pod Złotą Pipą

    The 'Pub under the Golden Pipes' is an inviting cellar bar. It's more sedate than most such places, better suited to conversation than listening to music.

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  27. Pod Papugami

    Pod Papugami 'Under the Parrots' is a vaguely 'Irish' cellar pub decorated with old motorcycles, street-signs, musical instruments and other junk. It's a good to escape to, with its pool table and tunnel-like maze of rooms.

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  28. Propaganda

    This is another one of those places full of communist nostalgia, but so real are the banners and mementoes here that we almost started singing the 'Internationale'. Killer cocktails.

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  29. Prozak

    A legend in its own lifetime, this nightlife giant was once celebrated for luring Kraków's rich and beautiful into its labyrinth of passageways, nooks and crannies. It still draws in the clubbing faithful, but too may (drunken) foreigners have scared away the local talent.

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