The best bars and cafés Little Poland

It is in this café with dimmed lights and beautiful wooden furniture that you can enjoy the best hot chocolate (melted or czekolada) in Krakow with a piece of homemade cake. For more than a decade, the New Province has been a meeting place for intellectuals, students and gourmets and a place that is always friendly, quiet and very pleasant. In the evening, the room becomes a little more lively, where one can meet artists, literary figures and students in conversation or in the middle of a date in the dim light of the spotlights.

Pijalnia Wódki i Piwa is a chain with franchises all over the city and in every town in the country. Its founders understood one essential thing: offering good vodka blends at low prices, with responsive service, is what Poles want when they go out at night. Wódki i Piwa is a must for all those who want to enjoy their evening out, and it's a 5-minute affair between the entrance, the order and the shot. Always packed on weekends. We recommend the lemon and porterwodka shots.

Together with its brother Szczepański Square, it is simply the beating heart of Krakow's nightlife. It's THE place to go for cheap beers, a cheap vodka/snacks combo or a slightly mediocre meal on the go, but one that serves its purpose well in preparing the stomach for the night ahead. The place is busy all day long, but in the evening it fills up little by little with its public of young people and students on the go. Big atmosphere at the end of the week. Try it if you want to experience a typical Krakow evening!

This coffee shop cabaret could also among other sights of the city. Founded in 1895, it is famous for the movement Młoda Polska which formed and developed here. It was the haunt of writers, painters and other artists who belonged to the movement. Its interior decoration, in Art Nouveau style, was created by an artist scenographer, Karol Frycz. With a stage... since it was a cabaret. You can make a coffee break, but also only "visit" the interior without getting away, staff has the custom.

Le Hevre is a hybrid bar-restaurant-cultural center, partly to justify its installation in the premises of one of the abandoned synagogues of the neighborhood. The setting is incredible and the rehabilitated rooms showcase this former place of worship very well. The high prices for the city's standards drive away the young people and students, who usually frequent the local bars, and there is a more affluent and less party-oriented audience. On sunny days, the high windows aligned along its length give it a fairy-tale air.

On the corner of Szeroka Square, the Krokodyli is a must-see establishment when you venture into the alleys that separate the old Jewish quarter from its Christian counterpart. Coffee break, drinks with friends or disco on the dance floor, this bar is lively, especially in the evening, without the sometimes suffocating crowd of Nowy Square. The terrace at the back is a nice little hidden green area (you can order pasta and Pierogis from Warsztat and eat them here). An excellent spot to relax in the middle of the day in summer.

If you love herring and that you want to feel a such true Pole, it is here that it is necessary to come. It is undoubtedly the best bar with herring of the city. 

A reference to the 2003 international hit film romance Lost in Translation by Sofia Coppola, this beautiful bookstore is a meeting place for Lublin's artists and hipsters. It also houses a café that hosts many exhibitions, events, meetings with writers and poets, live concerts by local musicians, etc. On the menu, a large choice of hot drinks (coffee, tea, chocolate) and delicious homemade cakes, but also beers and wines for those who want. An excellent place to relax.

Dzikie Wino (or natural wine) offers wines and snacks a cut above its neighbors, including the excellent and little-known Polish (white) wine. The menu boasts around a hundred entries and promises satisfaction, but for that you'll have to put your hand in the wallet. Don't hesitate to talk to the staff to find what you're looking for. The restaurant has two dimly lit dining rooms and a quiet terrace in an inner courtyard. To get there, enter the courtyard shared with Pod Baranami and Starbucks. Worth a try!

Turn right into the hall at number 21 Szewska Street, then climb the stairs to the bar upstairs. Chances are you've spotted it before, with customers taking in the fresh air at the windows overlooking the street, pint in hand. Multi Qlti is large and cool. Customers can have a drink in three of its rooms, to which is added a smoking room, and then a fourth, larger room, which houses the restaurant part (American, very good) in diner style. Its 21 craft draught beers, often renewed, attract crowds.

Excellent ice cream and a terrace on the Rynek.

This bar at the back of a courtyard overlooking the Rynek is famous throughout the city and was founded in 1956 as a literary cabaret. It has a long history of dissent against the communist regime and was a den of the intelligentsia, with acidic and committed shows. Today the program is varied and offers cabaret shows every Saturday night and jazz concerts on Thursday. The hall has certainly the most Cracovian atmosphere, being in a large vaulted brick cellar. It is a student meeting place.

The Propaganda is part of the legend of its eponymous bar-booth, which trained an entire generation of young people in a Moscow finally free of communism. It copies the industrial style, all brick and steel; the decoration loaded with nostalgia, with period posters, protraits of Lenin, old radios and old cameras and the spirit, punk, with loud music and generous alcohol. The recipe works well and there are plenty of people to get through the unfriendly double steel doors that mark its entrance.

Frequented by genuine beer lovers, this pub offers its customers a wide selection of Polish, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Czech, German and Belgian beers. In addition to this, you can enjoy the dishes that do the job: nachos, chicken wings, burgers. In short, not large kitchen but efficient kitchen!