Entertainment in Kraków
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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 (open 6pm to 4am Thursday to Sunday) up the glass stairs, mostly attracts a young crowd.
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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. Live jazz every night at 9.30pm or 10pm.
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Cieplarnia
It almost feels like you have been invited into someone's living room - the furniture is slightly worn and the walls are cluttered with photos. Hot drinks and jazz music make this an ideal place to warm up on a chilly evening.
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Klub Re
You can't beat Re for its excellent line-up of live music, which features indie rock bands from all over the world, playing up close and in your face. Even if you're not into the music you'll love the shady courtyard.
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Łubu-Dubu
Feeling nostalgic for the bad old days? Get your fix at this retro bar that hearkens back to the days of communism and Kool & the Gang. Never mind that most of the patrons are too young to remember the 1980s…
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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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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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Kino Paradox
Kraków counts just under 20 cinemas, with many of them in the centre. The cinemas that may have some art-house and quality mainstream movies on their programme include Kino Paradox .
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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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Frantic
With two dance floors, three bars, a chill-out room and top Polish and international DJs, Frantic is regularly packed out with smart young locals. There's sniffy door selection, so don't be too scruffy.
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Kino Mikro
Kraków counts just under 20 cinemas, with many of them in the centre. The cinemas that may have some art-house and quality mainstream movies on their programme include Kino Mikro.
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Jazz Rock Café
Rock out almost any night of the week (from 9.30pm) in this inviting grungy bar. The place brings a post-industrial hipness to the Gothic cellar; staff are surprisingly friendly for it being so dark.
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Stary Teatr
Kraków's esteemed 'Old Theatre' is famous throughout the country for the quality of its productions. It presents a wide repertoire of both classic Polish and foreign plays; all shows are in Polish.
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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 9.30pm.
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Kitsch
Poles seem to think that this is a gay club. Certainly it’s a queer-friendly place, but people of all persuasions find their way to Kitsch for a night of drunken dancing and shameless mashing.
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El Sol
This Latino club reverberates to the sound of salsa, merengue, samba and bossa nova. Tuesday night is salsa night (with lessons), while Thursdays cater especially to the Columbian community.
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Filharmonia Krakowska
This Baroque building on the southwest edge of the Planty is home to one of the country's best symphony orchestras, as well as a large mixed choir, a boys' choir and several small ensembles.
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Piec'art
Dark and inviting, this intimate basement bar is a seductive place for a drink even when it's quiet. Several times a week, there's live acoustic jazz, which makes it all the more appealing.
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Piwnica Pod Złotą Pipą
The ‘Pub under the Golden Pipes’ is another inviting cellar bar. It’s more sedate than most such places, better suited to conversation than listening to music.
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Scena Stu
The 'STU Stage' started in the 1970s as a politically involved student theatre and was immediately successful. Today it is a solid professional troupe performing avant-garde plays.
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Propaganda
This is another one of those places full of communist nostalgia, but so real are the banners and mementos that we almost started singing the 'Internationale'. Killer cocktails.
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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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Rdza
This is your classic Krakovian cellar, dressed up with cushy sofas, coloured lights and house music. The bouncer ensures that the dancers match the sophisticated decor.
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U Louisa
This stylish pub is conveniently located below the main square as you enter from ul Grodzka. Big screens to watch sports and wi-fi throughout rounds out the picture.
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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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