Must-see nightlife in Western Europe

  • Beans on Fire

    Le Marais, Ménilmontant & Belleville

    Outstanding coffee is guaranteed at this innovative space. Not only a welcoming local cafe, it's also a collaborative roastery, where movers and shakers…

  • Tailor Bar

    Medieval Centre & Red Light District

    The drinks list at this elegant bar in the NH Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky pays homage to AW Krasnapolsky, a tailor who moved from Germany to Amsterdam in…

  • Lola Jeans

    Newcastle-upon-Tyne

    At this Jazz Age–styled bar with chandeliers, velveteen chairs and dazzling murals, cocktails served in vintage glassware include locally inspired…

  • Chapitô

    Alfama, Castelo & Graça

    There are fantastic views from this bar at an alternative theatre/circus school occupying a former female prison. It's a top choice for sundowners or late…

  • Lockwood

    Paris

    Cocktails incorporating premium spirits such as Hendrick's rose- and cucumber-infused gin and Pierre Ferrand Curaçao are served in Lockwood's stylish…

  • Bistrot des Sports

    Chamonix

    In the 19th century, climbing parties used to assemble in the Bistrot des Sports before setting out to conquer Mont Blanc. A merry medley of mountaineers,…

  • Noglu

    St-Germain & Les Invalides

    Put the kick back in your shopping stride with a coffee break at Noglu, a pretty-in-pink, mirrored cafe and salon de thé (tearoom) with – drumroll –…

  • L'OisiveThé

    Paris

    Relax over a cup of tea – there are 70 types to choose from – or try your hand at knitting at this cheery salon de thé and yarn shop. Colourful and upbeat…

  • Le Zinc

    Grenoble

    Evoking an old-timey train station, complete with looming clock and retro tiled floor, Le Zinc is a favourite among local wine lovers. The owners are…

  • National

    Belfast

    Behind the oyster-grey ground-floor facade of the 1897 former National Bank building, and through its post-industrial interior, is the National's pièce de…

  • Mancuso

    Bordeaux

    'Delicate music, drinks and food' is the driver of this chic retro-styled cafe, named after New Yorker DJ David Mancuso who made The Loft private parties…

  • Lipstick

    Montmartre & Northern Paris

    If the name isn't a clue, the decor certainly is: its bordello-like leopard-print lounges, red-velour drapes and a pole in the centre of the bar reflect…

  • Cinéma Café Merci

    Le Marais, Ménilmontant & Belleville

    Dedicated to the seventh art, this street-level cafe adjoining concept store Merci is graced with retro film posters and projects vintage films on one…

  • MBC

    Chamonix

    This Canadian-run microbrewery is one of Chamonix' most unpretentious and gregarious watering holes, pouring its own locally made blonde, stout, pale ale,…

  • Le Monologue

    Bordeaux

    Every fashionable city street has to have one – a new-generation coffee shop, that is – and on rue du Palais Gallien it's Le Monologue. Green-floral…

  • Paradise by Way of Kensal Green

    Notting Hill & West London

    With its statues, religious paintings, gaunt oil portraits, panelling and dense drapes, the wildly eclectic, eccentric, boho and gothic Kensal Green bar…

  • Twenty Third Bar

    De Pijp

    High up in the skyscraping Hotel Okura Amsterdam, Twenty Third Bar has sweeping views to the west and south. The adjacent twin-Michelin-starred kitchen of…

  • Folie Royale

    Annecy

    This handsome salon de thé has a master chocolatier staining his apron out back, as he hand-dips squares of ganache into chocolate, dices nougat and rolls…

  • Cerveteca Lisboa

    Príncipe Real, Santos & Estrela

    Lisbon's best craft-beer bar is a boozy godsend: 14 oft-changing taps (including two hand pumps) focusing on local and Northern European artisanal brews,…

  • La Manufacture de Café

    Paris

    Legendary French chef Alain Ducasse's ongoing expansion of his empire includes this 2019-launched coffee roastery, using beans sourced from his travels to…

  • De Nieuwe KHL

    Amsterdam

    Set in a historic 1917 brick building with stunning tilework and a retro colour scheme of pale green and pink, KHL's bar opens to a vine-shaded terrace…

  • Green Man

    Besançon

    Formerly trading heavily on an Irish pub theme, these days the Green Man is a genteel, convivial place for coffee or an aperitif, decorated with musical…

  • Simone La Cave

    Paris

    Tucked away in the 13e, Simone La Cave lures a loyal wine-loving set keen to try its latest outstanding natural and biodynamic wine selection. Planches …

  • Nina's

    Paris

    With a history dating back to 1672, this tea specialist off place Vendôme still owns the rights to harvest essential oils, flowers and fruit from Le…

  • Bridge Bar

    Skellig Ring

    The focus of Portmagee's village life is the raspberry-coloured Bridge Bar, a local gathering point that hosts traditional Irish music and dancing…

  • CopperBay

    Montmartre & Northern Paris

    This sleek cocktail bar's floor-to-ceiling windows, polished pale-wood decor and glistening copper fixtures and fittings inject a generous dose of design…

  • Jekyll & Hyde

    Chamonix

    This British-owned après-ski mainstay has a split personality: upstairs the 'Jekyll' has really good pub food (from seafood tapas and sweet and sour duck…

  • La Commune

    Le Marais, Ménilmontant & Belleville

    An atrium-style covered timber deck strewn with plants and comfy sofas marks the entrance to La Commune. Like its 10e sibling Le Syndicat, cocktails made…

  • BA Wine Bar do Bairro Alto

    Bairro Alto, Chiado & Cais do Sodré

    Reserve ahead unless you want to get shut out of Bairro Alto's best wine bar, where the genuinely welcoming staff will offer you three fantastic tasting…

  • Boot Café

    St-Germain & Les Invalides

    For a serious noisette, cortado or double crème made from coffee beans roasted in Berlin by 5 Elephant, duck into the Left Bank offspring of Le Marais's…

  • Café de Toeter

    Groningen

    A student favourite that never seems to lose its appeal, this vintage bar is known for its fantastic choice of bottled beers (more than 160 types) and…

  • De Blauwe Parade

    Medieval Centre & Red Light District

    A frieze of Delft blue-and-white tiles – the world's largest Delft-tile tableau – wraps around the walls above beautiful wood panelling at this exquisite…

  • Au Père Louis

    Toulouse

    This unashamedly retro bar-brasserie in maroon and gold trim has been here since 1889. The left-hand entrance panel reads ‘vin blanc’; the right, ‘vin…

  • Bar Joséphine

    St-Germain & Les Invalides

    Named for former regular, entertainer and French Resistance activist Josephine Baker, glamorous Bar Joséphine is within the grand 1910-built Hôtel Lutetia…

  • La Causerie des Mondes

    Dijon

    Tucked behind a half-timbered façade in Dijon's pedestrian zone, this eclectically decorated cafe is beloved for its multipage list of teas and its…

  • La Caféothèque

    Le Marais, Ménilmontant & Belleville

    From the industrial grinder to elaborate tasting notes, this coffee house and roastery is serious. Grab a seat, and pick your bean, filtration method …

  • L’Alchimiste

    Bordeaux

    A more refined, fashionable crowd sips craft cocktails at this stylish cocktail bar, decked out 1920s style with vintage armchairs, tassel-fringed…

  • Accattone

    Liège

    Outremeuse is the antithesis of all things hipster, right? Not if Accattone can help it, with great coffee (from €1.80), breakfasts and wine-and-pasta…

  • Lost & Found

    Birmingham

    Fictitious Victorian-era explorer/professor Hettie G Watson is the inspiration for the botanical-library theme of this bar in an 1869-built former bank…

  • Found

    Clerkenwell, Shoreditch & Spitalfields

    Single-handedly propping up Shoreditch's cocktail scene this side of Rivington St, speakeasy-style Found employs a decidedly simple equation for success:…

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