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Gdansk | Bars, Pubs & Clubs | Bars & Pubs

Barbados
A large and basic affair that fills with after-work nine-to-fivers nattering into their mobile phones. There’s a good chance they’re planning the weekend ahead, which is when this place transforms from boring bar to cracking club. The DJ spares no eardrums with his vapid collection of ‘best of’ CDs, but that doesn’t stop glorious lookers from squishing themselves in and waggling their private bits in the direction of bouncing cleavages.
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ul. Karmelicka 1

tel. (+48) 58 769 32 70

Open 10:00-01:00,
Fri 10:00-04:00,
Sat 10:00-04:00.
Brovarnia
Scarf on and get the hands in those mittens; crossing old town to get to Brovarnia is chilly business, and may have you considering if it’s worth it. It is. If there’s better beer in Poland we’ve yet to find it, which should say enough. Set in a scrubbed up granary, and with a vintage car parked outside, this place features clunky pieces of wood and pics of flat capped workers. It looks fantastic, with little hatchways allowing for glimpses of light, and a no smoking policy to really exaggerate that tang of hops. The microbrewed beers are faultless, and better still, if you find your legs don't work after eight of them, then check into the Hotel Gdańsk upstairs.Normal021

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ul. Szafarnia 9

tel. (+48) 58 320 19 70

Open 13:00-23:00
Café Absinthe
Café Absinthe
Penetrate the greenish fog and find a basic space with tables and chairs squeezed in at all angles occupied by a collection of what can only be described as true pub legends including the occasional one-eared Absinthe drinker, a midget, after-work cabaret dancers and visiting sailors. By day a great place to eavesdrop on foreign language teachers involved in intense conversation, by night a choice place to cut loose the shackles of sobriety.
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ul. Św. Ducha 2 (Teatr Wybrzeże)

tel. (+48) 58 320 37 84

Open 10:00-04:00,
Fri 10:00-06:00,
Sat 10:00-06:00.
Café Bar Mon Balzac
Café Bar Mon Balzac
Decorated with muted colours, big candles and even bigger sofas, Mon Balzac has a sophisticated edge and a popularity factor that’s nearly too high to compute - you won’t find a busier bar. Smokers head to the left hand room, where attentive staff make frequent forays to ensure your Złoty Lwy never nears empty. Toilet access, meanwhile, is gained through a mirrored door, something which might present a problem once the beer goggles are lowered.
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ul. Piwna 36/39

tel. (+48) 58 682 25 25

Open 10:00-03:00
Cafe Ferber
Cafe Ferber
Decent separation of the smoking and non-smoking sections, space-age toilets and a fine selection of board games are what attract us to the very red Cafe Ferber, which is at once both a daytime ladies-who-lunch type cafe and a rather saucy late-night drinking den. The terrace is one of the best people-watching spots in Gdansk - weather permitting - while the picture behind the bar one of the most startling.
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ul. Długa 77/78

tel. (+48) 58 301 55 66

Open 09:30-01:00,
Fri 09:30-02:00,
Sat 09:30-02:00.
Cafe Szafa
A café cum bar featuring an upside down bike, a mirror on the ceiling and sofas with springs poking out of them. Although not much bigger than one of the cupboards it’s named after this is as good a place as any to warm up before heading off into one of the old town clubs. If you haven’t got your dancing shoes on then the owners seem to be quite happy to host you as the opening hours on the door demonstrate. ‘Open 15:00 until pain’. [...]



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ul. Podmurze 2

tel. (+48) 693 116 227

Open 15:00-06:00
Degustatornia Dom Piwa
While we love Polish beer it doesn’t half make you feel like you’ve been hit by an artillery barrage the morning after. Indeed, sometimes only a foreign beer will do. Step then, if you please, into Degustatornia Dom Piwa, a brilliant pub featuring one of the most expansive choices of beer in the north of Poland. Satan Red, Zlatopramen and Old Speckled Hen are an example of the brews on offer, and if you don’t mind feeling like a dead badger then secure yourself to the floor and order Delirium Tremens – it’ll take four to floor you.
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ul. Grodzka 16

tel. (+48) 888 72 82 72

Open 15:00-22:00,
Fri 15:00-24:00,
Sat 15:00-24:00.
Elephant Club
Neither elephants nor a club await, instead patrons are rewarded with a basement venue featuring an upmarket bar, some super live music and a large curvy sofa from which to conduct the evenings affairs.
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ul. Długi Targ 41/42

tel. (+48) 58 305 13 55

Open 11:00-24:00,
Fri 11:00-02:00,
Sat 11:00-02:00.
Forteczna
A Napoleonic hilltop fort that now functions, curiously enough, as a bar. If you want to get away from the Goth looking students who drink here there’s plenty of obscure and shadowy corners to duck into, while the patio has a view of the city through a screen of trees. Condensation and musty [...]



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ul. 3 Maja 9a

tel. (+48) 505 08 55 72

Open 12:00-24:00,
Sat 12:00-04:00.
Infinium
Unlike the other clubs in the area, this place has no problems drawing regular crowds. Attached to a student dorm, so if you don’t want to spring for a taxi do your best to finish your night with one of the students. Drinking sessions inside have been known to be messy, and the nautical interior is unlikely to help your sea-like-legs when you finally call it a night. [...]



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ul. Wyspiańskiego 9

tel. (+48) 58 344 04 98

Open 18:00-01:00,
Fri 18:00-03:00,
Sat 18:00-03:00.
Klub Aktora
They've got the right location, a great name and a hideously brown interior that must be to blame for scaring off the customers. [...]



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ul. Mariacka 2/3

tel. (+48) 58 309 43 26

Open 15:00-23:00,
Fri 15:00 - 24:00,
Sat 15:00 - 24:00.
Klub Pisarza
Once a hellish menagerie of gaudy objects and brass pots Klub Piszara have done a cracking job of reinventing themselves into a low-key Boho bar. Local artwork clings to whitewashed walls, jazzy noises escape from the speakers and a fish swims around inside a bar-top aquarium, seemingly entranced b [...]



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ul. Mariacka 50/52

tel. (+48) 600 394 861

Open 14:00-02:00
Kruger
Clubbing in Gdańsk usually means jiggling around to the vanilla dance sounds found on terrestrial radio. So then, all hail to Kruger, a city centre club with a focus on minimal, deep and Detroit sounds. Set in a vaulted brick cellar this is a true hedonists haven, and a welcome departure f [...]



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ul. Długa 81-83

tel. (+48) 513 909 972

Open 18:00-04:00,
Sun Closed.
La Dolce Vita
La Dolce Vita
A cracking little bar with an urbane vibe thanks to the curved seating arrangements, neon arcs, stainless steel and assorted slick dashes. Run by the same people that gave us Absinthe this is a more upmarket affair, and though it’s more of a pre-club spot the tempo gets raised each weekend when DJs and discos kick off. The cocktail list is possible the biggest in the city, and isn’t short of schoolboy humour – order ‘an elbow in the boobs’. 

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ul. Chlebnicka 2

tel. (+48) 58 304 78 87

Open 16:00-02:00,
Fri 16:00-04:00,
Sat 16:00-04:00.
Pod Banderą
Smallish, basic and cosy, with wooden furniture and a few sea-themed decorations like nets and barnacles. By the Motława River. [...]



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ul. Długie Pobrzeże 23

tel. (+48) 58 305 11 12

Open 11:00-23:00
Pool Salon
Men in tracksuits gather here to play pool and look dangerous. While Pool Salon affects the look of a place where foreigners leave via the window, it transpires to be a cracking night out with good pool tables, a few sofas and a barman keen to put the world to rights. Late open hours, as well. [...]



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ul. Targ Rybny 10

tel. (+48) 503 42 98 98

Open 16:00-02:00
Pub Duszek
If you like your bars to be slick, smooth and full of dressed up dingbats fiddling with iPhones then move on. Duszek is anything but, offering instead a scruffed down design that’s been fogged and stained from decades of beer and smoke – honestly, a night here is enough to cut years off your life expectancy. But in a country that’s gone bananas for new and neon, glitz and gits, this legendary local is something of a standard bearer for old days Gdańsk. Watching Polish barflies get trousered on vodka isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but this place has atmosphere in spades, a friendly welcome, and often raucous nights – not least when some incompetent bashes out some notes on the cobwebbed piano.
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ul. Św. Ducha 119/121

tel. (+48) 510 287 308

Open 12:00-24:00,
Fri 12:00-02:00,
Sat 12:00-02:00.
Red Light Pub
Red Light Pub is so named after the red lights that decorate it, not , if you were hoping, after a red light district. It’s actually nothing more than an extension of the U Szkota restaurant, and as such drinkers find themselves surrounded by tartan wall trim and paintings of parliament. The secret room at the top appears to be a favourite with covert teens and this place should be treated as little more than an emergency stop should lightning bolts be cast from the heavens. Even then you may prefer to take your chances under a tree. We’re promised a refurb sometime in the vague future, though we’re not holding our hopes high.
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ul. Chlebnicka 9/12

tel. (+48) 505 78 50 95

Open 19:00-02:00,
Fri 19:00-04:00,
Sat 19:00-04:00.
Rugbuś
Something what you don't expect to find in Poland; a rugby pub with sports trophies in the darts room, framed rugby shirts and paintings of muddy scrums. Although in a student area its primarily shaven-headed locals who do their drinking here, and they’re not shy in downing pints, looking sca [...]



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ul. Do Studzienki 24 (Gdańsk - Wrzeszcz)

Open 14:00-23:00,
Sun 15:00-22:00.
Spiritus Sanctus
A great wine bar occupying a corner building in the vicinity of St Mary’s Cathedral. Spiritus Sanctus positively bursts with sacral art and other ecclesiastical trappings, possibly as a purposeful reminder of your own guilty pleasures. It’s a high class background, with a crowd to match [...]



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ul. Grobla 1/13 (entrance from ul. Św. Ducha)

tel. (+48) 58 320 70 19

Open 17:00-22:00,
Sun Closed.
Stacja De Luxe
Stacja De Luxe
Poland is proliferated with pubs that were once public toilets, so finding a bar that formerly housed a petrol station really isn’t as bizarre as it sounds. When the sun is out take shade under the petrol pumps, or retreat inside to drink amid bare concrete, Ferrari red car seats, wheels and pipes. Plenty of industrial chic on display here, and quite possibly a candidate for ‘the best pub in Wrzeszcz’.
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Al. Grunwaldzka 22 (Gdańsk - Wrzeszcz)

tel. (+48) 58 345 00 05

Open 10:00-24:00
Sure Bar
Enter via the glass atrium of the Radisson to reach the Irish styled Sure, a super spot that blows most other lobby bars out of the water. There’s bad news for smokers, as well as drinkers who prefer their Guinness from a tap not a bottle, but that’s where the negatives end. Wood panelled and classy the real standout feature here is the bar menu, home to what we vote for as Poland’s best burger – it really is that good.
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ul. Długi Targ 19

tel. (+48) 58 555 52 03

Open 10:00-01:30
Vinifera
Depicted as the little doll’s house in Gunter Grass’ Call of the Toad, Vinifera is one of the great disappointments of night time Gdansk. From the outside, graffiti squiggles aside, this riverside lodge could play a part in Wind in the Willows. Inside, and in spite of regular closures and renovations, it transpires to be nothing more than a dusty, depressing bar clogged up with plastic flowers and mirrors whose reflections have been distorted over time.
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ul. Wodopój 7

tel. (+48) 58 320 16 79

Open 14:00-24:00
Żak
Fabulous Żak (Jacques) provides a bar with an edgy, art school feel with the added bonuses of the occasional theatrical performance, film screening or DJ. With vast black and white photographs of faded film stars on the walls and a collection of dreadfully comfortable sofas, one could find [...]



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Al. Grunwaldzka 195/197 (Gdańsk - Zaspa)

tel. (+48) 58 344 05 73

Open 13:00-01:00,
Fri 13:00-03:00,
Sat 16:00-03:00,
Sun 16:00-01:00.