Must-see nightlife in Gdańsk

  • Józef K

    Gdańsk

    Is it a bar or a junk shop? You decide as you relax with a cocktail or a glass of excellent Polish perry on one of the battered sofas, illuminated by an…

  • Flisak '76

    Gdańsk

    Around for over 40 years, this is Gdańsk's longest-established cocktail bar and still, according to many, the best. The funky retro interior complements…

  • Probiernia Win

    Gdańsk

    Finally someone has come up with a use for the huge space beneath the Great Arsenal, filling the mammoth building's cavernous underbelly with this superb…

  • Cafe Ferber

    Gdańsk

    It’s startling to step straight from Gdańsk’s historic main street into this very modern cafe-bar, dominated by bright red panels, a suspended ceiling and…

  • Degustatornia Dom Piwa

    Gdańsk

    If beer brings you cheer, then the 180 types of ale, lager, porter and other hop-based concoctions will have you ecstatic. Tens of Polish bottled beers…

  • Kozlovna Złota Brama

    Gdańsk

    Typical Czech franchise pub belonging to the Pilsner Urquell brewery with a clean-cut, goat-themed interior ('kozel' means billy-goat in Czech), big jugs…

  • Brovarnia

    Gdańsk

    Pomerania's best microbrewery cooks up award-winning dark, wheat and lager beers in polished copper vats amid sepia photos of old Gdańsk. Tables are…

  • Literacka

    Gdańsk

    This intimate, two-level wine bar stocks reds and whites from all over the world, including – wait for it – Poland! Staff know their Dornfelder from their…

  • Cafe Lamus

    Gdańsk

    This fun retro-style bar has a random scattering of 1970s sofas and armchairs (and deckchairs outside), big-print wallpaper from the same period, and a…

  • Miasto Aniołów

    Gdańsk

    The 'City of Angels' covers all the bases – late-night revellers can hit the spacious dance floor, crash in the chill-out area or hang around the…

  • Kamienica

    Gdańsk

    The pick of the bunch on ul Mariacka is this excellent two-level cafe with a calm, sophisticated atmosphere and the best patio on the block. As popular…

  • Pikawa

    Gdańsk

    One of the early postcommunist originals, this well-worn, aromatic coffeehouse is still worth a shot for the expertly barristered brews and the huge blown…

  • Parlament

    Gdańsk

    Popular mainstream club with strutting nights devoted to the hits of yesteryear, pop, dance, R & B, electronic and hip-hop.

  • Cafe Absinthe

    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…

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