Opened mid-July, Kufle’s latest venture is a throwback to the time when Powiśle was indy and upcoming and on the frontline of hip.

Doing it in a way that feels shabby, gritty but yet totally cool, this is a bar that riffs on themes of industrial and retro to maximum effect.

Ground floor: a small bar area with a secret strip of seating snaking back behind; upstairs, the kind of furnishings last seen when Brezhnev was a boy.

And, then, there’s the outside, with its splash of metal seats under a trail of illuminations.

But as nice as it looks, the reason Kufle’s busy is a little more liquid: on tap, find a fluctuating choice of 12 crazy beers sourced from the kind of breweries that make Poland seem progressive.

Kufle i Kapsle Powiśle
ul. Solec 46A

(Words & Photos: AW)