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During the warmer months the streets, particularly Piotrkowska, are thronged with beer gardens. Once the chillier weather starts to move in the party moves back inside and downstairs. For the most part you’ll be paying no more than 7zł for a large beer, and bear in mind that the opening hours we list are flexible: most bars will stay open as long as drinkers are drinking.
Here are a few ideas depending on what you are looking for:
Splurge – Live it up like a cocktail queen in Paparazzi, an excellent venture with cocktails fixed by star staff, or visit Klub Wino for a quieter night sampling wines from around the globe.
Lads – Check out the gazillion strip clubs that have popped up around town or simply set up shop at Magnes, which is top of the heap. Football fans should head to Football Pub, remembering to immortalise your team by leaving a scarf on the wall. Bierhalle does great beer brewed on site, while Piwoteka Narodowa has more obscure ales than you’ll have time to consume (that’s not a challenge).
Couples – Another vote for Paparazzi for cocktails that will make you weak at the knees. Couples that like to kick up their heels to Latin rhythms will enjoy Timba Club, while West Avenue Club is a tamer atmosphere for sipping drinks in stylish surroundings.
Local – Try zmianatematu. for the chance of meeting local art students, Swoiska for a raucous night of karaoke or PRL Klub for some of the cheapest booze in the city.
Off the wall – Lodz has no shortage of curious locales. Want to drink in a helicopter? Do so at Mi-2. Lodz Kaliska is a legend, and the madness is hard to imagine until you experience it. And Unassuming Incognito can easily suck your night into a dancing vortex.
All nighter – It isn’t hard to find a club filled with patrons ready to dance until the sun comes up. Giant Klub Pomarańcza is practically several clubs in one with multiple stages, and the renovated power plant of the Manufaktura textile mills features the Elektrownia RP club that is also worth your best moves.
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
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Bierhalle
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Foto Cafe 102
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PRL Klub
Practically every city in Poland has a PRL-themed bar, but we’ve never seen one so cheerily kitted out before. Where most communist bars use grim People’s Republic icons and busts of Lenin, PRL Klub has wall murals of the cheery proletariat happily toiling away, and the red-checked tablecloths only add to the gleeful vibe – it’s almost mor Read on
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Paparazzi
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Siódemki Club
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Irish Pub
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West Avenue Club
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Magnes
Latest Comments:
Football Pub
Cheap and cheerful if any other folk on here don't like it the GTF!! You are in a foreign land it's ...Pub Biblioteka
Spent an excellent night there last saturday12th November. Great choice of beers and good bar staff also....Keja
Service is actually really okey and nice. We had just bad luck with one waiter which wasnt really nice and was behaving like last idiot....Football Pub
If you are looking for wall to wall flt screen TV screens with every match available shown in the bar waitresses in body hugging dresses and skirts with a state of the art sound system and cocktails that would put the Worlds greatest bar man to shame then forget it you wont find that ere....Łódź Kaliska
Lodz Kaliska is the bread and butter of life in the city. The bar club is 3 stories and offers everything from a nice place to relax with friends live concerts and a packed (and i mean PACKED) dance floor on the weekends....Keja
Tried this place fairly early on a Friday night. It was pretty quiet then, just as the band was arriving and setting themselves up....Football Pub
Football pub is a s******e but it's a good shit hole if the guy did not like the place why did he spend so much money?Maybe he has s**t for brains....Lizard King
Spent Friday evening there with friends to have a few drinks and then on to some other pubs in town.....Football Pub
How anyone could write a review like Jamie has and claim to spend as much money as he did is quite simply amazing....Soho Luxury Gentelman's Club
What I can say... I've been few times in Lodz and visited all go-go clubs here. But this is DEFINITELY THE WORST ONE! Girls are absolutely awful and can't speak English....Football Pub
Be absolutely clear - this place is a complete sh1t hole of the very highest order. The only person excited to be there, judging by the photo of the 1976 Widzew Lodz team, is the physio whose tracksuit bottoms were rather too tight for his own good....Peron 6 - Dom Piwa
Is this guide written by a beer Rambo? I enjoyed a nice drink here. Love the variety, didn't get plastered but that as is anywhere, is always an option....Łódź Kaliska
I like Kaliska and now Krakowians do too. Good mix of people....Iron Horse
I was here once on a bleak winters evening. Guess what. The inside was equally bleak an unwelcoming. I shall not be back....Biblioteka
Dreadlocks featurely routinely in this Lodz guide. If I actually see any in Lodz I will let you know....