Speakeasy

An unusual venue, and less like a swinging Prohibition-era nightclub than a discreet back-door social club, this dim grey bar has an oddly industrial interior decorated with Godfather quotes and Al Capone's death certificate, as well as a screen showing Eliot Ness-era film reels. Doubling as a bookshop selling crime and mystery novels (including used English language tomes for 10zł), Speakeasy's drink list is heavy on whiskey and bourbon and wins points by starting off with the 'Old Fashioned.' The music, however, is nothing more than smooth contemporary jazz. Devoid of kitsch, but inconsistent in execution, as a theme bar it fails, succeeding instead as a curious place for a quiet drink with a date. Perfectly likable while being a letdown.