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The tile and brick wall styling is somehow cheesy and chic<br />
at the same time, and the coordinated light displays that<br />
continually scan the room will leave you mesmerised on a<br />
Friday or Saturday night. Bring your camera, your weekend<br />
wallet, and dancing shoes, and Domówka will deliver you to<br />
dance party paradise. QOpen 21:00 - 04:00, Thu 21:00 -<br />
05:00, Fri, Sat 21:00 - 05:30. Closed Mon, Sun. PAXW<br />
<strong>In</strong>stytut E-4, ul. Św. Antoniego 15, tel. (+48) 693 54<br />
38 02, www.instytutklub.pl. A massive, modern space<br />
offering 3 levels to lush-hounds, including a laid-back,<br />
love-seated mezzanine, cool cocktail bar and downstairs<br />
dance madness, <strong>In</strong>stytut is a worthy addition to Pasaż<br />
Niepolda. Aiming to make itself a more upscale address in<br />
the neighbourhood, the sexily suit-vested and suspendered<br />
staff pride themselves on their drink inventions, but the<br />
beer flows just as freely and the atmosphere is hardly too<br />
fancy or elite for you to make a fool of yourself - exactly<br />
what the stewed, student crowd is up to on the swaying<br />
dance-floor. Believe it or not, in the afternoons this is a<br />
rather reliable place to use the wifi and have a coffee, or<br />
even a bagel. QOpen 12:00 - 02:00, Fri, Sat 12:00 - 05:00.<br />
PAEGBW<br />
Jazzda B-3, Rynek 60, tel. (+48) 71 346 08 25,<br />
www.jazzda.pl. A tribute to the psychedelic swank and<br />
bell-bottomed boogie nights of the 60s and 70s, Jazzda’s illuminated<br />
chequered dance floor, disco lights and mirror balls<br />
invite you to recreate scenes from Saturday Night Fever<br />
every night of the week. The cocktails are as colourful as<br />
the outlandish technicolour pimper’s paradise decor of this<br />
popular market square club, where lounge lizards practice<br />
their Austin Powers pick-up lines on Polish pussycats until<br />
another Abba song comes on and they go squealing back<br />
to the dance-floor with their arms in the air. Expect an entry<br />
fee on weekends. QOpen 09:30 - 01:00, Thu 09:30 - 03:00,<br />
Fri 09:30 - 04:00, Sat 11:30 - 05:00, Sun 11:30 - 01:00.<br />
PAGBW<br />
Kalambur B-3, ul. Kuźnicza 29a, tel. (+48) 71 372<br />
35 71 ext.32, www.kalambur.org. An artsy bohemian<br />
headquarters by day, this tiny Seccessionist space becomes<br />
one of the sloppiest, most unhinged student clubs<br />
in Wrocław on weekend nights, with the party going on<br />
until dawn o’clock. As drunken revellers bump into the DJ<br />
booth, the masses writhe to skipping recordings of everything<br />
from classic MJ to the Doors to Goran Bregovic. So<br />
chock-a-block with shimmying students and hipsters that<br />
dancers obstruct the door, so start testing your moves<br />
on the approach ‘cause you’re going right into the frying<br />
pan, friend. QOpen 12:00 - 02:00, Fri, Sat 12:00 - 04:00.<br />
PUEBXW<br />
Mañana Cafe E-4, ul. Św. Mikołaja 8-11, tel. (+48)<br />
71 343 43 70, www.manana-cafe.pl. Reckoned by many<br />
to be the best night out in Wrocław, Mañana is certainly reliable<br />
for a raucous weeknight rave-up and well-loved by all<br />
those who live for long nights. Don’t let the lack of a proper<br />
dancefloor prevent you from doing your Travolta - spontaneous<br />
outbreaks of disco fever are rife and encouraged. The<br />
scruffy furnishings, red lighting and cheeky photos on the<br />
wall exemplify the balance between sexiness and silliness<br />
embodied by the randy retro-chic clientele, and Mañana’s<br />
down-to-earth attitude and funky playlist of favourites from<br />
the last 50 years make it one of the most appealing places<br />
in the city to squander your brain cells. With the addition of a<br />
VIP room and the opening of the large summer terrace there’s<br />
now even more space to investigate the lineup of Wrocław’s<br />
lookers.QOpen 17:00 - 04:00, Thu 17:00 - 05:00, Fri, Sat<br />
18:00 - 07:00, Sun 18:00 - 03:00. PAGB<br />
Nietota A-3, ul. Kazimierza Wielkiego 50, tel. (+48) 664<br />
00 76 10. One of Wrocław’s most original venues, Nietota is<br />
a place for artist discourse, self-destructive decadence and<br />
debauchery. Endeavouring to embody the spirit of PL’s ‘Młoda<br />
Polska’ artistic movement, an awful lot of time has gone into<br />
the decor with almost every surface - including the tables, bar,<br />
walls and ceiling - covered in highly-illustrative original artwork<br />
that gives the space a creepy-cool nacht-cabaret atmosphere<br />
where concerts and theatre troops take the stage between<br />
weekend DJ nights. With the self-described Art Nouveau ambience,<br />
we disagree; the interior’s ubiquitous darkly cross-hatched<br />
characters with flayed flesh in contorted positions embrace<br />
more of a caustic post-war grotesque that wouldn’t look out of<br />
place as the art on a Tool album. Completely unique in style and<br />
atmosphere, the drinks list is also exceptional with Lindeman’s<br />
cherry beer to candy the lips of the ladies and delicious Czech<br />
Litovel on draft. Well worth seeking out. QOpen 15:00 - 03:00,<br />
Fri, Sat 15:00 - 05:00. PAEGBW<br />
Obsesja A-3, ul. Św. Mikołaja 8-11, tel. (+48) 71 341<br />
84 25, www.klubobsesja.com. A corking venue with industrial<br />
gray walls offset by a no-expense-spared décor that<br />
includes safari print sofas, curtained off boudoirs and glowing<br />
glass blocks. It looks great, but not half as fetching as the<br />
nymphs who swerve and slink under the glittery disco balls.<br />
The DJs like interspersing house with disco, and the results<br />
are often absolutely riotous as chiseled lads attempt dickish<br />
dance turns. QOpen 17:00 - 01:00, Thu 17:00 - 02:00, Fri,<br />
Sat 17:00 - 04:00. Closed Mon, Sun. PAEX<br />
Pasja A-5, ul. Świdnicka 53, tel. (+48) 609 20 91 60,<br />
www.pasjaclub.pl. One of the hottest addresses in town,<br />
complete with a whirring disco ball and a voluptuous interior<br />
of Doric columns and vanilla seating. The impeccable crowd<br />
consists of vampy girls and lads on the verge of making their<br />
fortune practicing snake hip dance moves to the house<br />
sounds that thump from an excellent sound system. QOpen<br />
21:00 - 05:00. Closed Mon, Tue, Wed, Sun. PAEXW<br />
PRL A-3, Rynek-Ratusz 10, tel. (+48) 71 342 55 26, www.<br />
prl.wroc.pl. Comrade Lenin (and his many portraits) invites you<br />
to this communist theme bar on the market square brimming<br />
with period propaganda, including some frighteningly authentic<br />
social realist oil paintings. It looks amazing and the novelty of<br />
the place may intrigue tourists who upon coughing up the cover<br />
charge are likely to find themselves far out of their element. Not<br />
really a nostalgia bar, this veteran dance club never left the<br />
Soviet era and 20+ years of democracy has done nothing to<br />
dent its popularity. As such you’ll find a bit of an older crowd with<br />
wandering hands getting sweaty to PRL-era Polish pop hits and<br />
disco polo tracks of seriously dubious musical merit. A cultural<br />
experience to be sure, and one you should be careful about<br />
committing to. Q Open 24 hrs. PABXW<br />
Puzzle Klub B-3, Przejście Garncarskie 2, tel. (+48) 71<br />
341 13 91, www.klubpuzzle.pl. Who would have expected<br />
one of the city’s best alternative venues to be squatted right<br />
on the second floor of the Town Hall? Drawing a young crowd of<br />
liberally-pierced locals and unwashed Erasmus students, you’d<br />
hardly mistake the interiors as historical - Puzzle looks more like<br />
a warehouse gallery or recording studio, with sound-padded<br />
walls, a cheaply constructed bar and industrial spools for tables.<br />
Other clever touches include the menus tucked into the covers<br />
of old 45s and the jigsaw pieces for cloakroom tokens. With an<br />
indie DIY vibe, the stage at the far end regularly hosts concerts,<br />
literary readings, cabarets, film screenings, DJ parties and more,<br />
making Puzzle one of your best bets for finding something unique<br />
to do on any night of the week, while bolstering to your hipster<br />
cred at the same time. QOpen 10:00 - 02:00. Note that opening<br />
hours are subject to change. PAUEGBW<br />
Wrocław <strong>In</strong> <strong>Your</strong> <strong>Pocket</strong> wroclaw.inyourpocket.com<br />
Adult Entertainment<br />
Pruderia B-3, ul. Ofiar Oświęcimskich 46, tel. (+48)<br />
71 343 06 02, www.pruderia.com.pl. Surprisingly<br />
classy and subtle décor for a gentlemen’s club. If not for<br />
the five stars prominently displayed out front it would<br />
have a decidedly understated façade of modesty. The<br />
velvet and lavender walls are a nice touch to the skyhigh<br />
ceilings and wall-length burlesque paintings and<br />
portraits. The strobe lights, crystal-textured wall paper,<br />
and the music that is at a much more bearably low decibel<br />
than other locales will get you in your groove while you<br />
take in a performance or two or even treat yourself to<br />
a private dance. The central stage is easy viewing from<br />
the bar, and you can also get a good look at what’s on<br />
deck if you cleverly time your trips for refills. Come early<br />
before the crowd gets in if you want to feel like a sultan,<br />
or just the luckiest guy in Wroclaw for a few hours. QOpen<br />
21:00 - 04:00. Closed Sun. PAG<br />
Stardust A-3, ul. Świdnicka 13, tel. (+48) 500 57 06<br />
31, www.stardustclub.pl. Get your shirt pressed and walk<br />
the red carpet (literally) on weekends to enter this thoroughly<br />
upscale and intimate fashion club full of white, black and silver<br />
crescent-shaped booths. Every surface gleams, including the<br />
shiny stripes on the black-clad Zoolander barstaff. The name<br />
‘Stardust’ suits it perfectly thanks to a foggy galactic pink<br />
dance-floor full of twinkling LED lights, and the house DJs<br />
hold up their end seamlessly beat-matching the latest clubbangers<br />
for the crowd of tomorrow’s reality TV stars. There’s<br />
a back room where the smoke is generated by cigarettes<br />
and delicious tapas to snack on when you’re not feasting on<br />
the fit clientele. You gotta pay to sashay, so expect a steep<br />
cover upon entry. QOpen 21:00 - 04:00. Closed Mon, Tue,<br />
Wed, Thu, Sun. PAXW<br />
Synergia A-3, Pl. Solny 16, tel. (+48) 606 49 01 20,<br />
www.synergiaclub.pl. This coffee and cocktail club in the<br />
basement of Plac Solny’s historic Stock Exchange building<br />
is well located and laid out for massive rave-ups, with the<br />
DJ station and a large dance-floor occupying the middle of<br />
the space. Synergia’s strengths are in its delicious coffee<br />
concoctions, cocktails, large selection of whiskeys and late<br />
hours which make it an ideal diversion for dawnbreakers. The<br />
interior is a mash-up of ideas with a few vintage furnishings,<br />
fashion photos and bright fluorescent pop art, so you may<br />
need to keep your beer goggles on, but rumour is that in<br />
September they will undergo a short renovation. <strong>In</strong> terms of<br />
music, you have some of the best DJs around spinning an<br />
eclectic selection that goes beyond house (though there’s<br />
plenty of that) to embrace plenty of alternative pop hits and<br />
funky bass lines Thurs-Sat. QOpen 08:00 - 02:00, Wed<br />
08:00 - 03:00, Thu, Fri, Sat 08:00 - 06:00. AEGBW<br />
Teatr Klub B-3, ul. Oławska 9, tel. (+48) 71 342 08<br />
30, www.teatrklub.pl. Taking over the enviable clubbing<br />
space at Oławska 9, Teatr Klub has finally developed a<br />
deserved following for this well-designed locale full of plush,<br />
low sofas, mirrors and modern lighting with two bars and<br />
separate VIP and smoking sections. The house music may<br />
not be original, but there’s always something hot happening<br />
on the weekends, from beauty pageants to body painting,<br />
followed by unbridled dance parties late into the night. To<br />
describe the clientele as nice to look at would be a bit like<br />
describing Hitler as a naughty boy. Q Open 21:00 - 05:00,<br />
Thu 21:00 - 03:00. Closed Mon, Tue, Wed, Sun. From October<br />
open 21:00 - 03:00, Fri, Sat 21:00 - 05:00. Closed Mon, Tue,<br />
Sun. PAXW<br />
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+48 509 720 650<br />
+48 71 343 06 02<br />
ul. O ar Owicimskich 46 lok. 1a<br />
Wrocaw<br />
e-mail: pruderia@pruderia.com.pl<br />
www.pruderia.com.pl<br />
September - December 2012<br />
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