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Antycafe

Antycafe would have been called a ‘hipster’s paradise’ back before it became cool to mock hipsters. The atmosphere is sublime, and you’ll feel fortunate that you didn’t miss this place during your time here in Kraków. Read_on (No Comments)

Awaria

This small dodgy, dive bar is known for its live rock and blues concerts (Tuesday-Sunday), patient barmaids and plastered, hard-livin' local clientele who are never too shy to buy a sober stranger a drink. Read_on (No Comments)

Baroque

Over several rooms of plush seating, high fashion photographs, dangling chandeliers and a spacious garden during the warmer part of the year, Baroque is a sharp, modern space that mixes the new with the old. Read_on (No Comments)

BeerGallery - Dominikańska

BeerGallery certainly has the right intention, but unfortunately the only thing it gets right is the beer, of which there are over a hundred ranging from local microbrews to choice Belgian ales (some of which are even on tap for 15zł). Read_on (1 Comment)

Betel

Hidden behind the one-night stand inspiring Materia meatmarket and adjacent to a fertility centre, Betel reminds you that actually. Read_on (No Comments)

Bomba

In almost no time at all, this small bar has managed to establish itself as a cult hangout thanks to a simple concept few places follow anymore: good music and good people equals good times. Read_on (No Comments)

Boogie

Self-assuredly cool and confident, Boogie exudes style with a glossy black and creme interior. Friday and Saturday nights Read_on (No Comments)

Boom Bar Rush

Sunglasses at night and a spiky hairdo are usually enough to get past the fashion gestapo hovering at the door. Once inside expect Read_on (No Comments)

Budda Drink & Garden

Budda Drink & Garden
To get the most out of Budda you need to visit in summer when adjoining courtyard gardens transform into an al fresco dance arena. Read_on (1 Comment)

Bull Pub

What the Great British Pub once looked like before the brewing industry was mugged by alcopops, Wetherspoons and silly smoking laws. Read_on (1 Comment)

Bunkier Cafe

Attached to Kraków's best contemporary art gallery, this enclosed terrace bar/cafe on the Planty resembles a spacious Read_on (No Comments)

Cafe Manekin

A sewing table sign leads you into this veteran hole-in-the-wall cafe/bar of rickety furnishings, local photography, and random fashion flourishes (changing curtains, the titular mannequin) over two tiny levels. Read_on (1 Comment)

Café Szafé

Owned by two amiable artists, Café Szafé has a warm, inviting atmosphere unique to most Kraków bars - a trait which has endeared it to locals and expats alike. Read_on (No Comments)

Café Zaćmienie

Head straight past the sketchy club on the right and advance over a wooden drawbridge to access this inner-city oasis. Choose from sitting on a timber frame mezzanine level, or on the wicker chairs concealed among the jungle of parlour plants. Read_on (No Comments)

Carpe Diem Pub

Carpe Diem’s primary feature is a ceiling which does its level best to decapitate all those who visit. Survive this hazard Read_on (No Comments)

Cheers Pub

Obscurely tucked in a courtyard off Grodzka Street, this apparently Scottish-owned cellar-dweller retains its basic medieval interior with sturdy wooden furnishings, a heavy iron chandelier and raw rock walls. Read_on (3 Comments)

C.K. Browar

On top of being Kraków's only microbrewery (serving rather palatable Light, Ginger, Dunkel and Weizen ales), CK Browar Read_on (2 Comments)

DeCafencja

Existing primarily to catch the run-off from Piękny Pies at about 5:00am (you can disregard the opening times we list), Read_on (No Comments)

Dym

Lost in the sauce somewhere between cafe and bar, Dym is a long, dark drink-den, the dull design of which is made up for by the character of the clientele: primarily self-proclaimed artists and intellectuals that blow a lot of smoke. Read_on (No Comments)

Dynia

Café/bar crossover with a soulful vibe that makes it a sensible spot for conversation. Not a pissed backpacker in sight, and a light, airy atmosphere. Read_on (No Comments)

English Football Club

Apparently the number of punters coming to town demanded it. Quite literally wall-to-wall football with team shirts hanging off every available space, three lions on the floor and Sky Sports beaming down their banal brand of hype and hyperbole. Read_on (2 Comments)

Face Cafe

Face Cafe
The name is half accurate and half contradictory. Face is definitely applicable and for those who don’t mind face-control, posh décor, and LCD screens showing catwalks and fashion model shoots, you won’t be disappointed. Read_on (2 Comments)

Faust

A typical Krakowian dungeon space with a set of perilous stairs leading to a network of rooms that reveal a Babylonian mixture of languages and vices. Read_on (1 Comment)

Folia Concept Club

An audacious effort to do something different with a cellar for once. Badly signposted, you need to walk to the end of the courtyard corridor, down some stairs, round a few corners and then bang, find yourself inside one of Kraków’s best bars. Read_on (No Comments)

Hard Rock Cafe

Hard Rock Cafe
Sit back enjoying your cocktail or beer overlooking the square and the Cloth Hall from Hard Rock’s split level glass bar. Read_on (No Comments)

House Of Beer

House of Beer may be the best of the bars improving the beer culture of Poland’s drinking capital, with over 150 bottles and eight draught beers on hand in this high ceilinged pub full of dark wooden furnishings and large leather sofas. Read_on (4 Comments)

Irish Mbassy

Cheekily stationed in the midst of Kraków's embassy row, the massive Irish MBassy is a popular place for weekenders and expats to get their passports punched and forget where they are. Read_on (3 Comments)

Irish Pub Nic Nowego

Irish Pub Nic Nowego
Similar to a cosmopolitan Dublin Bar, the Irish-owned Nic Nowego continues to serve as the expat community's primary source of hangovers. Read_on (3 Comments)

Klub Kulturalny

An indie student vibe hosting a no-worry zone; 21 and over only, and leave the tracksuit at home please. The soundtrack is heavy on rock with plenty of beer on tap shelter you from the world above this scruffy cellar full of slouchers. Read_on (No Comments)

Klub Piłkarski Poker

Though the name has you thinking Hold 'Em, one step inside makes it plain that this is a football mecca. Turns out round about Read_on (No Comments)

Klub Re

Your standard Krakowian cellar bar in most respects, Re is a stand-out for bringing touring international acts to Kraków. Read_on (No Comments)

Lizard King

Lizard King
Following their success in Poznań and Łódz, Lizard King has brought music to the masses of Kraków, largely otherwise deprived of a proper rock venue. Read_on (No Comments)

No. 7 Bar

When someone mentions a hostel bar, No. 7 is not what typically springs to mind. Tucked into the back of a courtyard, No. 7 is Read_on (No Comments)

Non Iron

A small, dingy, obscure locals bar, there's one reason and one reason only why you should visit Non Iron. Not the atmosphere, company, music or design, but for cheap, delicious beer. Read_on (No Comments)

Oldsmobil Pub

Two sections; a traditional wooden bar area in the first, complete with a small screen to watch any sports action, and booth seating in the side room. Read_on (No Comments)

Opera Cafe Pub Restaurant

Gallons of purple and futuristic glass booths upstairs make Opera a refreshing alternative to the tried and stale décor formulas. Read_on (No Comments)

Panorama

Home to many things including a mediocre disco and an even less exciting restaurant, Panorama’s genius comes in the guise of offering perhaps the best view in Kraków. Read_on (No Comments)

Paparazzi

Paparazzi
Kraków cocktail culture started here. A long, narrow space plastered with candid pics of celebs practicing their pout, Paparazzi's Read_on (1 Comment)

Pauza

Pauza
One of the trendiest drinking dens in the Old Town, head to this unmarked first floor bar to feel like you're 'in the know. Read_on (No Comments)

Pergamin

Pergamin
Take a seat at the bar to allow the staff their moment of glory as they spin bottles in a bid to create the perfect cocktail. Elsewhere find secluded corners aplenty, scarlet colours and clubbish background sounds stoking the temperature. Read_on (No Comments)

Philo

Comfortably off the Old Town high streets, Philo's polished woods, beige leather seating, bevy of bookshelves and top-mark Read_on (No Comments)

Piękny Pies

Such was the outcry when this cult venue was forced to change locations a few years back that many responded as if they had lost their favourite drinking buddy to an untimely overdose. Read_on (No Comments)

Pod Papugami Irish Pub

Pod Papugami Irish Pub
After a couple of refurbs, Pod Papugami has doubled its capacity, the upstairs has been beset by some fake brick finishing and Read_on (1 Comment)

Poligamia

Liberally packed with a mix of foreigners and foreign-friendly folks, this modern upstairs bar is good place to mingle is you're feeling overwhelmed by your lack of local language skills. Read_on (No Comments)

Przychodnia Towarzyska

A neon blue cross marks the entrance to the Emergency Friendship bar. Regularly packed to the rafters, this is where groups of dressed up students descend to neck vodka shots and swap phone numbers. Read_on (No Comments)

QUBE

QUBE
Located in the Sheraton's magnificent showpiece atrium, QUBE is as sexy a spot as you'll find for a drink in Kraków, Read_on (No Comments)

Salt & Co

Drinking in the Radisson is as therapeutic as a shot of valium. Located directly opposite the Planty, Salt & Co. comes with a bright interior complimented by seats in dark purple with tiles using salt directly from the Wieliczka Mine embedded in the walls. Read_on (No Comments)

Sarmacja

It’s not quite clear what theme the decor is going for with its odd confluence of medieval weaponry and random taxidermy,but Read_on (No Comments)

SomePlace Else

SomePlace Else
Nine plasma screens for live sports, friendly staff and a quality menu of bar eats that steers towards the Tex-Mex end of the spectrum make SPE an easy place to witness your 'down time' overpower whatever itinerary you thought you had in Kraków. Read_on (1 Comment)

Społem

Cheekily borrowing their name from a cooperative network of shops prolific across Poland during communist times (many of which Read_on (No Comments)

Sports Pub

Sports Pub
This formerly characterless cellar has been filled with the requisite memorabilia, a billiards table, football table (free!) and 6 LED TVs to give you an alternative to some of Kraków's more stag-happy sports pubs. Read_on (No Comments)

Stary Port

Krakow's only sailor bar could be best described in three words only: Never-ending drunken singalong. This candlelit Read_on (No Comments)

Święta Krowa

Perhaps the most enchanting and laidback bar in the Old Town, Święta Krowa is an intoxicating alchemic elixir of alcohol, incense, candlelight, cloves and ambient eastern grooves. Read_on (No Comments)

The Legends

Celebrating the music of the 70s, 80s and 90s, one soon notices that the rock legends of the late 60s are sorely lacking from the cheesy playlist of this dingy brick cellar plastered with press photos of the said legends: everyone from The Boss to Freddie Mercury. Read_on (1 Comment)

Tram Bar

You will love the menu: a faithful reproduction of the Kraków transport map with station names replaced by drinks. Next stop, Read_on (1 Comment)

Trzy Rybki

Two choices: drink on the ground floor surrounded by huge armchairs, vaulted ceilings and scrubbed stonework, or take the lift to the top floor where a narrow glass room offers grandstand views of the town square. Read_on (No Comments)

U Kacpra

A basic cellar decorated with tatty brewery bumph, a giant Black Death Vodka pennant and the closest billiards table (14zł/hr) to the market square. Read_on (No Comments)

U Louisa

Combining the comforts of an expat-friendly watering hole and a decent place to watch sport on a big screen, this superbly Read_on (No Comments)

Vis a Vis

Perhaps the only space on the Rynek to survive Kraków's tourist boom with its scummy integrity intact, Vis a Vis is a Read_on (No Comments)