Belfast
A cramped and staunchly traditional bar, Bittles is a 19th-century triangular red-brick building decorated with gilded shamrocks. The wedge-shaped…
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Cardiff
With a name originating from the optimum temperature for coffee roasting, this place is all about coffee perfection. Their coffee beans are ethically…
Kraków
The Herring Embassy sits neatly, if cheekily, on this street lined with consulates. It’s pioneered an unlikely but successful concept – herring and vodka…
Vienna
Classic coffee house Diglas has crimson booths, timber-panelled walls hung with black-and-white photographs, vaulted ceilings, an extensive range of…
Malá Strana
The Blue Light is a dark and atmospheric hang-out, as popular with locals as with tourists, where you can sip a caipirinha or cranberry colada as you cast…
Lviv
This cafe–art gallery in the shadow of the Dominican Cathedral has a relaxed vibe. It's particularly popular with bohemian, alternative types but seems to…
City West & Charlottenburg
In business for over a century, this Old Berlin haunt was taken over by German heavyweight champion Franz Diener in the 1950s and became one of West…
Chueca
This historic old taberna (tavern) is the antithesis of modern Chueca chic – it has hardly changed since it opened in 1917. As Spaniards like to say, the…
Prague
It's easy to walk past this place, but it's worth seeking out – head through the back to find a couple of relaxing rooms, one fitted out as a library,…
Prague
A festive warren of drinking and dining rooms, U Fleků is a Prague institution, though it's usually clogged with tour groups high on oompah music and the…
Milan
Littered with old cars, motorcycles and vintage signs, Officine is a huge, dimly lit retro workshop-cum-bar unlike anything else in the city. Fancy…
Cardiff
The award-winning craft brewery Tiny Rebel from neighbouring city Newport has quickly made a name for itself among microbrewery fans. Its first pub is…
Prague
This friendly community pub is little more than a ramshackle wooden hut in a park overlooking Žižkov, where locals, accompanied by kids and/or dogs,…
Vienna
Café Gloriette occupies the neoclassical Gloriette, high on a hill behind Schloss Schönbrunn, built for the pleasure of Maria Theresia in 1775. With…
London
Built in 1875 on the site of a Dominican monastery (hence the name and the corpulent chap above the door), this much-loved pub was famously saved from…
Amsterdam
Speciality roasters White Label Coffee likes its customers to feel at home. Among the Persian rugs, comfy floor cushions, light wooden furniture and…
Budapest
A very welcoming watering hole, Good Spirit Bar comes fully stocked with more than 300 types of whisky in its collection, with malts and blends from…
Helsinki
The absence of high-rises is one of Helsinki’s most endearing characteristics but the 16-floor Clarion Hotel, opened in 2016, was a welcome addition to…
Madrid
Bodegas Ricla is so tiny you might be rubbing haunches with other customers as you sip your wine. For more than 100 years, it's been serving tasty…
Moscow
Giant murals depicting Russian countercultural icons – Vladimir Vysotsky, Shnur and Sergei Bodrov Jr – observe a merry crowd of hipsters ticking off new…
Marseille
Happy to host anything that will get feet shuffling, U.percut puts on killer jazz bands, crooning soul stars, hip hop maestros and late-night breakbeat…
Prague
The epicentre of the Vršovice hipster revival is this popular student cafe, bar and alternative music club (downstairs). It's always packed and fun;…
Kyiv
A de rigueur stop after descending Andriyivsky uzviz, this dessert-cafe specialises in rich melted-chocolate concoctions from Lviv – Ukraine's unofficial…
Glasgow
Hawaiian shirts, palms and leis provide an appropriate backdrop to colourful cocktails in this hedonistic and amiable basement bar. Upstairs, Kitsch plays…
Kraków
A few metres off the Main Market Square, the old Kino Pasaż passageway has been transformed into this hideaway for students to lounge on beanbag chairs…
Prague
The French-style Cafe Louvre is arguably the most amenable of Prague's grand cafes, as popular today as it was in the early 1900s when it was frequented…
Madrid
It may be Madrid tradition to indulge in chocolate con churros around sunrise on your way home from a nightclub, but for those who prefer a more…
Copenhagen
Don't be fooled by the name: dark, wood-panelled Eiffel Bar is a red-blooded Danish dive bar, and all the better for it. The joint dates back from 1737,…
Cork City
This curved corner bar has no shortage of comfortable window seats but its real attraction is the outside tables which are indisputably the best people…
Kyiv
Ukraine has some good wine-growing areas in the south and in the west, and this welcoming little space is the place to sample them. Plenty of dry…
Prague
You’ve got to love a pub that has vinyl pads on the wall above the gents’ urinals on which to rest your forehead. ‘The Shot-Out Eye’ (the name pays homage…
Brussels
Welcome to the natural wine emporium, where legendary nights begin. Have a punk rosé, a glass of bubbly or a more rock-and-roll wine featured on the wall…
Óbuda & Buda Hills
Run by a tattooed Filipino-American, this thimble-sized coffee house aims to spread the fame of Liberica Barako coffee from the Philippines. While arabica…
Helsinki
In the covered Wanha Kauppakuja laneway, off Aleksanterinkatu, this terrace, or 'tunnel' (it's locally dubbed 'Mummotunneli'), has several bars that turn…
Syntagma & Plaka
A tribute to the great Mercouri, this cafe-bar is decorated with images of the actress and politician who lobbied for the repatriation of the missing…
Budapest
We are pleased to see a real wine bar open on the Buda side, with well over 100 types from a dozen Hungarian regions available by the 1.5dL (150mL) glass …
Budapest
Think anything Scottish and the Caledonia (sometimes spelled with a 'K') does it – whisky (140 types) with or without Irn-Bru, plus smoked salmon,…
Oxford
In the UK’s original, and still Oxford’s only, board-game cafe, paying £5 (£7 if you don’t eat or drink) lets you play as many games as you like for three…
Valencia
Once a butcher’s shop (hence its title, also inspired by the Kurt Vonnegut novel with a similar name), Slaughterhouse abounds in books (even in the…
Kraków
The first and only real-ale pub in Kraków was started by an Englishman with a taste for the proper stuff. Brewed on-site, the beer goes from cask to hand…
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