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So it ends. Three years after reshaping the way Warsaw eats and meets, Nocny Market will be opening for one last hurrah this weekend before making way for the builders. Housed for the last few summers on the disintegrating platforms of Warszawa Głowna, a long overdue plan to revamp...

Klub Pogłos

Going Out 14 July 2018 0

Arguably the No. 1 venue for alternative music, Pogłos checks all the requisite boxes: a divey, gritty look, a liberal atmosphere and an army of fans willing and eager to embrace the seamier side of the night. The packed program of events runs from spoken word performances and vegan...

Travel: Kraków

Features 10 July 2018 0

Poland’s biggest tourist trap? Certainly! But there’s a reason Kraków’s cobbled streets sink each summer under the collective weight of the visiting planet. A city of bewitching beauty and intriguing history, few places on earth possess the same magic potion that makes Kraków so special… BY ALEX WEBBER |...

Polish Vodka Museum Opens!

Features Insider News 12 June 2018 0

The regeneration of Praga’s Koneser Factory took a significant step forward today with the official opening of the Polish Vodka Museum – allegedly the first museum of its kind anywhere in the world. Set inside a 19th century distillery that once kept both locals and occupying Russian troops supplied...

Equality Parade 2018

Insider News 9 June 2018 0

Once more this summer, central Warsaw will grind to a standstill on June 9th as the Equality Parade snakes its way through the streets of the capital… First held in 2001, the Equality Parade has survived numerous political obstacles to grow into one of the largest annual parades held...

Review: Pardon To Tu

Features Reviews 8 June 2018 0

Pardon To Tu, remember them? Regarded as one of Warsaw’s most experimental live music venues, its closure at the start of last year was a kick in the nuts for the city’s alternative ‘night people’. Having seen the original venue on Pl. Grzybowski bulldozed as part of the area’s...

Chwila

Going Out 8 June 2018 0

Uprooted from their original location in Mirów, this legendary dive bar / club crossover find themselves in a new address that which once belonged to Spiskowcy Rozkoszy. Making the move from their former digs is a giant mural of a weather-worn babcia, and it’s under her knowing gaze that...

Notes: Nocny Market

Blog 4 June 2018 0

In terms of food and drink, Nocny Market have arguably supplied some of city’s biggest talking points of the last few years. A quite brilliant mash-up of ethnic food vans and stalls, it’s become part of the lifeblood of summer. But more than just food, it’s the sheer festivity...

Nocny Market

Restaurants 26 May 2018 0

It’s back! Set on and around a disused train platform, this weekend hangout gets thronged with crowds clamoring over an ever-evolving line-up that brings together not just food trucks, but quality restaurants hawking their specials from tiny stalls – keep an eye on their facebook to see who is...

Nocny Market Lives!

Insider News 23 May 2018 0

Foodies and trendistas had a collective seizure in April after organizers of the celebrated Nocny Market landed the bombshell that they would not be returning for a third stint this summer. Occupying the disintegrating platform of an abandoned train station, the street food market made its debut in 2016,...