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…
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…
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…
Çanakkale
Regulars crowd in for cocktails served amid colourful street art and wall murals, and the international menu features pizza, pasta, steaks, salads and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Yonne
English-speaking owners Arnaud and Guillaume run this combination wine shop, tasting room and self-proclaimed oenobistro, where you can enjoy 3cl sampler…
Berlin
Steel frames, industrial lamps, hard edges – this particular 'witch's lair' has a decidedly stylish, masculine look and feel. Strong and creative drinks,…
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…
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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