Where to socialise in Warsaw?

Hi E, I think most places in Warsaw are pretty much OK. In general folks are friendly and quite happy to chat. Obviously Bradley's and Bar Below for the ex-pat crowd if you're missing Brit behaviour. Or try some of the small bars behind Nowy Swiat. Some nice places are opening up in Praga but in reality it is still a very dodgy area at night. Certainly not recommended if you are on your own (even a lot of my Polish friends won't go there after dark).

- Posted by Schabowy from Poland on Oct 11th, 2008

Em, you got to ask yourself what you are looking for in Warsaw? I'm from a pretty big Scottish city, Dundee, and have to say that there is more going on here than there. It's maybe difficult to take the first steps in Warsaw and find out where the happening places are but it's worth it. I think it would be useful if 'warsaw-life' was updated, it's a good database BUT could be better - are you listening admin

- Posted by pieface from Poland on Oct 15th, 2008

i had a friend in krakow who met up with new people he met online - it was for converstaion/language exchange - and now he's made a few new friends. as for places to go im not sure, im shy myself and hard for me to meet new people in public places. you can also try chlodna 25 cafe thats a fun place.

- Posted by kriminal from Poland on Oct 22nd, 2008

Trusty old Casablanca (very near the Copernicus monument) is a good place for meeting folk. Lots of the ex-pat teaching frat meet here and lots of Poles come to practice their english. Sometimes people even hold their private conversation classes here, so you can get sozzled, talk to people and possibly even get paid!!!

- Posted by pieface from Poland on Oct 28th, 2008

You had a friend Kriminal?? What happened to him? Did he get attacked and murdered by the Poles he met? Sounds dodgy to me! He must be a nutter! Legendary!

- Posted by legendary from Poland on Nov 20th, 2008

legend-yes i had a friend and still do he's alive and well and the polish people did not eat him. i will ask him to post to confirm his existence.... grrrr....

- Posted by kriminal from Poland on Nov 21st, 2008

Hello all! Yes, I am Kriminal's pal! I do exist! I did not get murdered or eaten by Polish people! Sorry to disappoint you Legendary, but it takes a lot more than some crazy internet nuts to kill me off! :-D I met a lot of great people by just offering language exchange. There is a great event that takes place in Krakow every Monday night, called Tandem evenings. It's organised in association with Jagiellonian University and its free of charge. People from all nationalities meet up in a bar drink some drinks and exchange their various languages. I've seen Polish, English, French, Spanish, Portugese, Russian, German, Italian and others that I can't remember. I reckon that something like this would be a great idea for Warsaw too! What do you all think??

- Posted by kriminalspal from Poland on Nov 21st, 2008

Ah Kriminalspal, good to know you're still alive. The Tandem evening sounds like a good idea! Much better than meeting randoms from the inter-web! That's just plain crazy! You never know who you might meet, which is very worrying! Legendary!

- Posted by legendary from Poland on Nov 21st, 2008