Gdańsk
Popular mainstream club with strutting nights devoted to the hits of yesteryear, pop, dance, R & B, electronic and hip-hop.
Must-see nightlife in Poland
Warsaw
Under the steady gaze of communist icons, dance the night away to great music with a chilled party crowd at this basement club.
Warsaw
The most popular weekly gay dance night in town brings in the punters with its hunky topless staff and glam drag queens.
Warsaw
This small craft-beer bar tucked off the main street at the foot of an apartment block has a loyal local following.
Sopot
Eclectic beach club with a calendar of jazz, DJs, live music and special events. One of Sopot's best.
Kraków
Full of curious characters and cosy corners, this is one of the oldest bars in the Jewish Quarter. Check out the mismatched furniture and interesting wall…
Kraków
BaniaLuka is a handy spot to warm up your night-time adventures with some vodka shots. Charging just 4zł for almost any drink or shot – which come in a…
Kraków
This popular Old Town student bar serves a full range of drinks and stays open late. Good place to start off or finish up the night.
Wrocław
This popular microbrewery and restaurant occupies a historical cellar under the town hall. Bustling staff scurry around the copper vats to serve the…
Carpathian Mountains
Wadowice is famous in Poland for its kremówka, a calorific pastry of cream, eggs, sugar and a dash of vanilla that disappeared during WWII, but was…
Wrocław
The ranks of red chairs drawn up on the square outside are the first clue to this bar's schtick: communist nostalgia. Inside, disco lights play over a…
Wrocław
This slickly presented juice bar, currently expanding throughout Poland, mixes a delicious array of creatively named drinks (13zł to 14zł) from the …
Warsaw
Long-running and popular late-night gay nightclub, offering midweek karaoke and DJs at the weekend. Show up late if you want to dance and mingle with the…
Podgórze
This tiny, family-run cafe is a handy for a stop on the walk to or from Schindler's Factory. While it's mainly a cafe offering coffee, drinks and lemonade…
Warsaw
If smoking a cigar while savouring a cocktail, premium whiskey or a glass of wine in a clublike environment takes your fancy, this bar, close by the Old…
Kraków
Belt out your favourites at this karaoke bar just off Plac Szczepańska. There's plenty of fun to be had even if you're not a crooner – take the…
Kraków
This local legend student club has been going strong since the 1960s, and the black-and-white photos of performances down through the years that are…
Kraków
This cafe and stand-up bar is famous for having the cheapest beer prices on the main square and as a haunt of artists: painters, poets, singers and actors…
Kraków
Kraków’s only laundromat cafe is the perfect place for a traveller in need of refreshment and clean clothes. Drop off your laundry for service or opt to…
Sudetes Mountains
Dependable for a pint and some time off your feet, as Irish-themed pubs the world over tend to be. The Belfast doesn't specialise in anything Northern…
Wrocław
No prizes for guessing what this pub serves. This lively, convivial Irish-themed pub is spread over three levels, and the Guinness isn't bad. The ground…
Kraków
No bar crawl of Kraków would be complete without visiting one of its many shot bars, like Pijalnia. With other branches on Szewska, Floriańska and Plac…
Gdańsk
By day this unassuming bar occupying an inconspicuous corner of the Teatr Wybrzeże building is the haunt of a few coffee-cradling newspaper readers. But…
Mazovia & Podlasie
Convenient bar with two distinct sections: a dimly lit interior with old-timey bentwood chairs and a tree-shaded rear beer garden, with secluded tables…
Mazovia & Podlasie
Another outlet for the chain of cafes run by Polish chocolate maker E Wedel. The company's products are on display in abundance. The coffee is fine. If…
Kraków
One of a very few gay-friendly clubs in Kraków, this Kazimierz bar and dance club has two rooms, one with electronic music, the other more popular disco…
Carpathian Mountains
Right in the centre of town, this modest little cafe makes decent coffee, has a wide range of teas, offers sweet sustenance such as tiramisu and panna…
Kraków
This Kazimierz disco is one of the few lesbian clubs in Kraków, though the oldies and disco nights draw a mixed crowd and everyone has a great time. Enter…
Kraków
With two dance floors, three bars, a chill-out room and top Polish and international DJs, Frantic is regularly packed with young, smartly dressed locals…
Mazovia & Podlasie
An Italian-style cafe with big booth seating. Try to settle on just one treat from the long ice cream menu on a warm summer day. Besides flamboyant…
Kraków
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,…
Carpathian Mountains
This bar and club on the southeast corner of the Rynek makes atmospheric use of vaulted brick cellars to host DJs, live acts and one-off parties. It's the…
Kraków
Rock out almost any night of the week (from around 9.30pm) in this inviting, grungy bar. The place brings a post-industrial hipness to the Gothic cellar;…
Kraków
Underground bar and nightclub with a modern aspect: split levels, exposed steel frame lighting and a metallic bar. It only really gets going after…
Kraków
Scandinavian-inspired coffee joint on a quiet residential street that makes for a handy pop-in and pick-me-up. There are a couple of seats inside, and in…
Warsaw
One of several popular nightclubs on the nightlife strip of ul Mazowiecka, Room 13 occupies a series of grand, high-ceilinged rooms in a 19th-century…
Silesia
A good place for a beer and dance, this friendly (but not very Scottish) venue serves interesting beers, and on Friday and Saturday nights hosts DJs…
Warsaw
In the entry lobby to the Warsaw Spire building and with a prime view of Plac Europejski, this unfortunately named cafe is fine for a coffee, a cake or a…
Kraków
A legend in its own time, this nightlife giant entices revellers into its labyrinth of passageways, nooks and crannies. It specialises in presenting…
Poznań
Ambient wine bar serving only the Spanish drop, with up to 100 bottles in stock. A simple menu of tapas dishes is available to complement the vino.
