Lesbian venue in a cellar, NYE party…read more Music: shitty charts. Coat check at the entrance. Expensive yet stingy drinks, dreadful toilet. I'm not sure if it is always like that but they have this confusing voucher system where you have to purchase a certain amount on the door and then present it at the bar and they cross out the amount. If you buy €10 and then decide to stay for another stiff one (and that's the only stiffy you'll find, I'm not complaining, it's veeery lezzie here) you gotta go upstairs and get another voucher. Let me just say, by the time you leave you'll have pockets full of cardboard coupons. I hope they recycle well. One rude member of staff at the door didn't ruin it for me but it's Germany, the language itself sounds rude and dirty, so maybe she was nice.. or rude. Generally good atmosphere, efficient bar tenderesses, so I guess it was all right. Won't be going back though, not my cup of tea.

Do not go if you are an American. It is what can colloquially be called a vampire bar, meaning…read morepeople in the bar remind you of vampires. Music is moderate to poor to an American ear. Cover is 6 euros which for the experience is rather pricy. Overall I would say do not come here but it might have some attraction for a certain type of crowd.

5 star hole in the wall football (soccer) bar…read more If you're a namby pamby person then I recommend finding Germany's version of Applebees. However, if you have an expert eye for safe rough and tumble patina, come in, sit down and have a Kolsch.

This is basically a sports bar, though not as bad as some that I had seen nearby, which looked so…read morebad that I decided that it would be best to move on to some place a little less shady. Then again, being in a forgien country does make me much more cautious when it comes to stepping into some of the really shady parts of the city. However, this bar is actually located in the heart of the old city, so it isn't as bad some some of the ones that I had visited (even though they happened to be in the old city as well). In the end, which it does have a bit of character, it is still basically a sports bar.

My new favourite place to be on the weekends in Cologne!…read moreDoscovered it by accident (again), I must say that this place just grow to me. I the moment I can't really tell if it was the fact that it combines perfectly a club with a bar, or the great music they play every evening, or just the really nice and professional personal that works here (ok the guy who stays in front of the door is a bit grumpy, but after you pass him, a whole new world will open), but the fact is that I kept returning in the past weeks here, and I just liked it! They have a full bar, and the choice if you wanna dance and have a party, or just meet new people and enjoy the music&drinks is in your hands. So if you are looking for a place that has both party and chill, and you want something different than Zülpicher, this is the place for you.

Eigentlich eine schöne Location. Aber das Personal (im Security Bereich) geht gar nicht. Nach dem…read moreKonzert wurden wir direkt nachdem die Band von der Bühne war mit einem Wellenbrecher Gitter nach draußen gedrückt und angeschrien, dass wir raus gehen sollen. Wir konnten noch nicht mal unsere Sachen (Fahnen, Pullover, leere Getränkeflaschen usw.) vernünftig packen oder das Abschlusslied, welches von Platte gespielt wird und (zumindest gefühlt und inoffiziell) fester Bestandteil des Tourprogramms ist, genießen. Jugendliche/Kinder sind hier gar nicht willkommen. Unter 12 Jahren kommt man nur mit Kapselgehörschutz rein. Vernünftige Kinder-ohropax, die bestimmt besser dicht sind als zu große andere Ohrschützer, werden nicht akzeptiert und man muss trotz Ticket draußen bleiben oder wenn man Glück hat noch irgendwo neue (billige, die dann gar nichts taugen) aus dem Baumarkt kaufen. Ist angeblich gesetzlich so, dann haben sich die anderen 30 Clubs in den letzten zwei Jahren wohl nicht an die Gesetze gehalten?! Waren noch viele andere Probleme mit den Türstehern/Security Personal. Sowas schlechtes und unprofessionelles habe ich noch nie erlebt. Schade, so macht man einen ansonsten schönen Club kaputt.

Cool place, different events, all kinds of music, nice concerts…read more Very alike to Sonic Ballroom just bigger, and mixed. It's not very well located, i mean for what people in Cologne are used to, a bit far, "wrong side" of the Rhine, etc. But it's really cool, looks like an old warehouse made to a club. Really underground from the way it's done, somehow a Berlin-style club. If you are into alternative not mainstream stuff full of college kids, this is the place to go.