Must-see nightlife in Europe

  • Café Gallery

    Tbilisi

    A laid-back cafe and art gallery by day, three nights a week Café Gallery clears away its tables and becomes a small but excellent club playing minimal…

  • Cafe Nikis 35

    Thessaloniki

    Sitting just below street level, this snug waterfront cafe-bar is perfect for a Sunday-morning coffee (€3) or afternoon beer (€4). It's sometimes a good…

  • Akava Lounge

    Çanakkale

    Regulars crowd in for cocktails served amid colourful street art and wall murals, and the international menu features pizza, pasta, steaks, salads and…

  • La Beltraneja

    Andalucía

    Hidden away in the old town's backstreets, La Beltraneja combines an interior of exposed stone, flowery wallpaper and pop-art murals with an ample open…

  • Feniks

    Kraków

    Clubs in Kraków come and go with the season, but Feniks, hiding in plain sight on the main square, is still largely unchanged from communist days. The red…

  • Le Bistrot du Coin

    Beaune

    This delightfully unpretentious corner bar boasts only a single stool inside, but that doesn't keep locals from crowding in day and night for glasses of…

  • Fort George

    Vis Island

    The service can be offhand, but there's no better place to watch the sunset on a summer night than the terrace of this old fort, built by the British in…

  • 7777

    Lithuania

    Take the wooden boardwalk across the dunes from Vasaros Ambasada to reach this beach. The drinks are pretty standard – Aperol and melon spritzes, Švyturys…

  • Tiffany

    Cagliari

    The outside tables at this handsome brick-vaulted cafe are the place to be for an early evening aperitivo. Come around 6.30pm and you'll find every seat…

  • Happiness Forgets

    Clerkenwell, Shoreditch & Spitalfields

    This low-lit, basement bar with good-value cocktails is relaxed and intimate, overseen by dapper-looking staff in white shirts and colourful suspenders…

  • Patine

    Antwerp

    This appealing wisteria-fronted street-terrace wine bistro and bar offers a good wine list along with an all-day menu of pastries, quiches, pastas, salads…

  • Caffè Letteraria Volta Pagina

    Pisa

    Kick back with Pisan cool cats at this edgy literary cafe with a red-brick vaulted ceiling, achingly cool vintage furnishings and a laid-back lounge vibe…

  • Chez Jeannette

    Montmartre & Northern Paris

    Vintage vibes don't get better than at local hang-out Jeannette's. Cracked tile floors, original cornices and original 1950s decor have turned this local…

  • Grabovac

    Makarska

    Right on the main square in front of the church, this outpost of a famous winery from Imotski (the wine region directly behind the mountains, right on the…

  • Fragile

    Thessaloniki

    Surrounded by the neighbourhood's dark office blocks and dive bars, this rooftop bar has views that are more Gotham City than postcard-pretty, but no…

  • Coffee Star

    Berlin

    Walking up Müllerstrasse, coffee-nistas will be lured by the irresistible aroma of freshly roasted beans emanating from this little shop in the Wedding…

  • Tetería Dar Ziryab

    Granada

    Duck into the dimly lit interior, adorned with tiling, cushioned benches and Moorish latticework arches, to puff on a cachimba and drink herbal tea (€2.50…

  • Le Open

    Le Marais, Ménilmontant & Belleville

    A gay venue for all types at all hours, this spacious bar-cafe, with twinkling disco balls strung from the starry ceiling, has bags of appeal – including…

  • Foundry Brewpub

    Canterbury

    Canterbury’s brewpub pumps out award-winning craft beers in the industrial setting of a former foundry where New York's first streetlights were made. It…

  • Blue Bar

    Rethymno Province

    This been-there-forever pub has a reputation for playing the best music in town. Owner Heinz is a singer-songwriter with eclectic tastes, which is why the…

  • Office

    Chamonix

    This mellow pub cranks things up in the après-ski (or, in summer, après-mountain bike) hours, with DJs or live music a couple of nights a week (including…

  • Au Brasseur

    Strasbourg

    Copper vats shine at this easygoing microbrewery, which is perfect for a pint. It has been a boozer in some shape or form since 1746. Today, there's a…

  • Mercurius

    Skopelos

    Taking its name from the church next door, this much-loved turquoise-trim veranda bar serves up music, fresh juices, Greek wines and carefully prepared…

  • ’t Klein Venetie

    Bruges

    Don’t miss the superb canal view from outside this popular café. With the belfry towering above a perfect gaggle of medieval house-fronts, the view is…

  • Bina

    Kadıköy

    One of the most popular bars on the Kadife Sokak drinking strip, Bina attracts regulars from across the city, who love its rear garden, upstairs arts and…

  • Bukowski

    Vilnius

    The eponymous Barfly is the spiritual patron of this charismatic boho bar in a less-trodden pocket of Old Town. It has a back terrace for finer weather,…

  • Cafe Madrid

    Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

    With a lovely perspective directly on to Plaza de Cairasco, this cafe – part of the hotel of the same name – ensconces you in a superb ambience right in…

  • Czekoladziarnia

    Wrocław

    Push past the display counter of impeccably handcrafted chocolates (if you can), grab a bentwood chair or banquette in the sweet little cafe area, and…

  • Joey's bvba

    Bruges

    These days Joey’s is run by Stevie, who performs with local band Cajun Moon; consequently, this dark, intimate bar is a gathering spot for Bruges’ musos…

  • Grand Hotel des Iles Borromées

    Stresa

    You might baulk at room prices (guests have included Princess Margaret and the Vanderbilts) but you can still slug back a Manhattan on the terrace with…

  • St Patrick

    Bucharest

    This popular pub has the authentic Irish bar look down, with dark woods and a green ceiling. Grab a table on busy Str Smârdan and settle back with a pint…

  • Fat White

    Warsaw

    Coffee lovers will be impressed by this compact, cute cafe that offers coffee prepared either by the Chemex, Aeropress or drip method, as well as the…

  • Hell Below

    Cumbria & the Lakes

    This brick-walled bar is a popular haunt for Carlisle's hipster drinkers, with craft beers and a bargain cocktail menu (with fun concoctions to try such…

  • Armani Caffè

    Cannes

    The al fresco cafe of Italian fashion design house Armani is predictably chic, stylish and full of panache. Sit beneath taupe parasols in a prettily…

  • Jefrey’s

    Paris

    Oh how dandy is this trendy drawing room with wooden façade, leather Chesterfields and old-fashioned gramophone! It's a gentlemen's club in soul, but…

  • Street 66

    Temple Bar

    In late 2016 this place replaced the very popular LGBT Front Lounge and promised to be all things to all people: a dog-friendly coffee shop and bar…

  • S Chablis

    Yonne

    English-speaking owners Arnaud and Guillaume run this combination wine shop, tasting room and self-proclaimed oenobistro, where you can enjoy 3cl sampler…

  • TheCoven

    Berlin

    Steel frames, industrial lamps, hard edges – this particular 'witch's lair' has a decidedly stylish, masculine look and feel. Strong and creative drinks,…

  • Les BerThòM

    Bordeaux

    With 11 beers on tap (from €5.40 per pint) and dozens of different bottled beers to try each week, beer lovers can't get enough of this industrial-styled…

  • Pupp Konditorei Cafe

    The Dolomites

    This Bressanone favourite has been in the Pupp family for almost a hundred years. The cosy velvet booths of this oh-so-'80s cafe are perpetually filled…

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