Step 2: Having fun on Piotrkowska Street and in Manufaktura

Rezydencja Club is a combination of coffee bar, music club and galery.

Interior decorations are matched with Piotrkowska's architecture. There is a lot of stylish furnitures with modern accessories. Ground floor is a place where you can relax and talk while seatting on extremely comfortable stylish sofas. Walls has this very deep, relaxing pink colour. There is also a wallpaper and flower ornaments. You can find there also many interesting paintings of young artists. On the first floor there is a dance floor, where you can go to have a great party. There are good bodyguards in the club, so it is very safe there.
Music in Rezydencja Club is varied:
On Fridays you can dance & listen to elektro house, tech house, deep, elektro
On Saturdays- vocal house, funky house.

Entrance is free.
Beer costs 8 zł there. Breezer Bacardi- 10 zł, cola- 5 zł.

A genuine paradise for the lovers of the „golden elixir" - over 160 brands of beer from all over the world, from Jamaica through almost whole Europe to India and Japan! The closest place like this is... in Berlin.

The décor of the pub refers to its character: beer-bottle caps, labels and a mini-museum of bottles. Attention to every detail is impressive. But first and foremost, the staff and the owner himself are a mine (or perhaps a barrel) of knowledge of beer - they offer advice and a lot of interesting information on beer.

Prices vary between 6 zlotys and 49 zlotys - the latter for a bottle of monastic Chimey Grand Reserve. I tasted Irish Beer which goes perfectly well with Juhasek - roast bacon wrapped around a prune. A special event is Oktoberfest - with original Munich beer!

Siódemki Club is the oldest club in Łódź, with its long history and list of celebrities that you could meet there. It's a club which is knowh from its variety of music concerts, discos, scenic and sociable events. There is a cabaret once a month. There are two balconies where you can seat. In the middle of the club there is this huge dance floor where you can dance. Music is various but mainly you can hear there songs known by everybody ('60-'80, pop, rock). During a week it's considered as a pub, and in the weekends it's changing into a disco. It organizes a lot of closed events like birthdays, proms, weddings etc. I had my eighteen birthday party there. It was fabulous cause this club is very stylish. Interior decorations are very interesting and unique.

The building was founded in 1892, and, from the idea od Students Association, it became disco in 1958.

On Wednesdays, Thursdays & Sundays access if free. On Friday you have to pay 8 zł, And on Saturday 12 zł.
Beer costs about 6-8 zł.
It's a place good as for students as for businessmen.

Live Latin American music every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 7.00 till 11.00. You can see two bands: "Funny Fingers" and "Los Latinos".
Huge beer garden with great fountain looks more like spanish patio. Waiters in original clothes stylized on traditional mexican fashion. Stylish tableware and decorations.
Restaurant is located at two floors and in big beer garden.
Latin American food (big portions) and great drinks are worth trying.
You can order traditional gazpacho, fajitas, tortilla, nachos and pescado con aguacate (cod). Try delicious cheese pie.
You can drink margarita (there is also kids version), mojito or caipirinha. You can also drink silver or gold tequilla, mexican agave vodka with salt and lemon, or orange and cinnamon.

If you are still not sure you can try special bargains: Since Monday to Friday till 4.00 p.m. you will have 25 % discount (if you will have restaurant leaflat). On Sundays every fourth Margarita is for free, and on Mondays you will have free beer to everz meal.

Irish Pub was founded in 1994. Since Tuesday till Sunday you can go there and enjoy live concerts of various bands- every day different climat: rock, blues, jazz. There is also every year special: winter Beach Party.
In the summertime there are also two beer gardens: outside beer garden on Piotrkowska and one on patio. It's a beautiful, green area with traditional, Polish decorations.
In the winter the best place to sit and relax is the basement with dimmed lights and dark, wodden lodges.

The main drink is of course Guiness Cream- strong, dark beer with cream foam.
Beer costs: 0,5 l/14 zł, small (0,25)/7 zl, root beer (0,25)/5 zł
You can find there various dishes from Polish and French cuisines
specialities of the house: grilled knuckle of pork, pancakes with chestnuts, chocolate and vanilla ice-creams, Polish soups, asparagus with ham and mozarella.

It's a place perfect for a business lunch, or when you want to celebrate.

Maybe it's not THAT expensive, but comparing to other places on Piotrkowska Street you won't save up money there.

Here you will find a mixture of styles typical of the eclecticism of Lodz. On the ground floor, there are cosy corners and a sumptuous six-tier chandelier. An elegant staircase will lead you upstairs where you can shut off from the surrounding world in one of the boxes or cubby-holes. The waiter greets the guests with an aperitif and a starter in the form of hot baguette or caramel bread and garlic, pepper or cream butter. And you will be treated with a good-bye glass of cherry vodka for „good digestion", which will certainly be welcome after such a lavish meal.

The restaurant organizes numerous seasonal festivals of tastes, including those of mushrooms, fish and frutti di mare, asparagus, strawberries, dumplings.

Beer costs 10 zł, coffe- 6zł.

The Central Museum of Textiles is the oldest and the biggest museum in this part of Europe, which collects items linked with the textile manufacturing process, starting with raw materials, through products (textiles produced industrially and executed with the use of artistic techniques) to garments. It was established in 1960 as the Museum of the History of Textiles (previously it was a Department of Textiles in the Museum of Art).

Its organiser and the first director was Krystyna Kondratiukowa. The seat of the Museum is the so-called "White Factory", one of the most beautiful examples of the classicist industrial architecture. The mill itself was build by Ludwik Geyer in the years 1835-1839 and was the first "multi-departmental mill" in Poland with the first mechanical spinning room, weaving room and printing workshop for cotton fabrics. The first steam machine in Poland was placed here.

The Museum's surface equals 10.500 square meters; over 5.000 square meters are used for exhibitions. Since 1972 the Central Museum of Textiles has been the co-organiser, and since 1982 the sole organiser of the International Triennial of Tapestry.

Entrance fee: ordinary- 8 zł, discount- 4 zł, family ticket- 15 zl. On Saturdays entrance in free. On Mondays museum is closed.

Welcome to a highlander's cottage! A big whitewashed stove in the middle, benches and simple tables around it, hand-painted glass pictures, sheaves of straw and the smiling farmer's wife greeting all the arriving guests. The exceptional charm, simplicity and exquisite cuisine of the Podhale region - these are the attributes of the inn „U Chochoła" which has enchanted the dwellers of Lodz since the first days of its presence in the city.

Everything here is „in tune", starting from the waitresses' folk costumes, through the menu written on a board and the original names of dishes, to the toilet designed in the style of a privy behind the barn.

You should drop in there to feel as if you were in the Podhale (Polish Highlands) region and to try Polish traditional simple food. it. Briefly speaking, anything you choose from the menu will be delicious and will fill you to the brim. And, to tell you the truth, I don't think you will have enough energy to order dessert

"Niebieskie migdały" is a cozy, comfortable and quiet tea room for everyone who would like to just sit, read or just relax. You can drink there teas (of coure, many different kinds), coffe a good wine and eat cakes, ice-creams and cookies.
It's a perfect place just to meet your friends and chat a little or go to a romantic, old-fashion date :>. Decorations reminds you your grandmother's room or Victorian style period.
There are three small rooms at the groundfloor with a small but cute patio. The idea of interior decoration is "a lot". You will find a lot of things there like: candlesticks, fans, cussions, frames, herbs, vases, bowls and all small things that you always collect but don't need them. If you don't like small, filled spaces you can use two bigger rooms at the first floor.
In autumn-winter season you can go there to see music-poetic evenings (first floor). And every Friday and Saturday you can relax listening to piano. You will find all of this in a room called "The Big Library".

Tea will cost there about 4-6 zl, and cake 3,5- 8 zł
It a non-smoking area!!!

Folk tawern „Zapiecek” it's a place where you can hear different kinds of music. You can meet there mainly students (but not only) interested in new bands, and folk music.
Wednesday is a meeting with tourist-scout's music. Thursday is a time for sailor's songs. Fridays and Saturdays are concert days of well-known, interesting musicians. In "Zapiecek" played f.e.: Maciek Malenczuk, Krzysztof Scieranski with "The Jankiel Band", Kobranocka, Martyna Jakubowicz, Waglewski & Pospieszalski.
Interior decorations are rather severe. Numerous candles all over the place makes it's atmosphere. It is live music that makes climate in "Zapiecek".
Club has two floors- ground floor and basement.
Beer costs about 6 zł. In "Zapiecek" you should try famous curd cheese with bread or bandit's potato pancake (placek po zbójnicku). There is also a fireplace, where you can roast some sausages on your own :>.

Music- folk, house

There's no other place like this in Poland: a café combined with a boutique. No wonder, as the owner, Ms Agata, has graduated from the Fine Arts Academy in Łódź and is a fashion designer. The interior, designed in pure, minimalist, Italian style, is a combination of the atmosphere of a café and a gallery. Its lighted floors make a small catwalk for fashion shows.

Italian coffee is prepared here in a variety of manners; it is served as classical espresso with milk or alcohol, mocca coffee with chocolate, whipped cream and caramel, original cappuccino with vanilla ice-cream and orange juice, or banana coffee with milk and bananas. Sipping aromatic arabica, you can give some thought to which outfit to choose, you can look through fashion and photography magazines and enjoy the atmosphere of elegance, or contemplate the charm of cups from the famous „Illy collection" signed by prominent artists, e.g. Federico Fellini, Francis Ford Coppola or Marino Marini.

The café is also famous for its delicious cakes, pastries and desserts of which particularly worth tasting is their ciasto orzechowo-karmelowe (caramel nut cake) with blueberry sauce, tort makowo-wiśniowy (poppy seed and cherry cake) or tiramisu made from original mascarpone cheese. Drinks are named after the greatest fashion designers: Prada, Coco, Gucci, Versace...

Here, at the Pret a Café, you will find a refuge full of beauty, harmony and good taste where the concerns of everyday life can soon be forgotten.

Piotrkowska Street is the most famous place in Lodz. Not only it's the most popular place for shopping, clubbing and entertaining area in whole city but also it is the greatest example of Art Nouveau architectural style. Each tenement house was built in different way, and each building is unique. By day time it's a perfect place for a walk (Boys & Girls! Beware of the amount of shops and restaurants where you can loose your money). Start your journey at Plac Wolności ang go straight to Pilsudskiego Street. There are few interesting life-size sculptures like: The Bench of Tuwim (famous poet from Lodz), Reymont on a Chest (he won the Nobel Price), The Piano of Rubinstein or Poznanski's Chessboard. The street is about 5 km long and it's beautiful at every time of the year. By night you can visit numerous pubs, clubs and restaurants on Piotrkowska and have a great party. Entering to most pubs and bars is free.