Just off the first square as you walk up from the station, the Bacchus Jazz Bar is an ideal place to meet friends, listen to jazz and either have a...
Trg kralja Tomislava 16
The relative newcomer challenging BP Club's local jazz club hegemony with a nightly agenda of live sounds. In a handy downtown cellar location, the Jazz...
Gundulićeva 11
Since 1995, owner Boris Geza has been trading rock, jazz, blues and classical LPs, the stock in this secondhand store today numbering 3,500. He also has...
Preradovićeva 24Based here since 1999, secondhand music shop Free Bird is run by Tomislav Gaži, who stocks 5,000 LPs and 2,500 CDs covering all musical genres. It has a...
Tratinska 50Zagreb's rock bar par excellence, Route 66 features live music, pool tables and sought-after Velebitsko beer. Photos of Bill Wyman and someone from AC/DC...
Paromlinska 47
This 2,000-capacity, two-floor lakeside venue, which opened in 1992, is still ahead of the field. This is largely due to its commitment to mixing danceable...
Aleja Matije Ljubeka
A bright conservatory full of cacti provides a rather welcoming environment in which to browse one of Zagreb's biggest and best-arranged collections of...
Podgorska 3There's something welcomingly lived-in about the rather worn and tatty Gjuro II (there is not a Gjuro I, just so you know), a cult Zagreb location that...
Medveščak 2Located just two blocks south of the main square, Lemon is another spot that seems to illustrate a move back into the centre for the club scene. During the...
Gajeva 10
Everyone knows the Apple, where a generation of thirty- and fortysomethings danced and found romance a decade and more ago. This grungy Tuškanac club, set...
Jabukovac 28
KSET is an excellent, adventurous venue for live music and DJs, with events taking place 3 or 4 nights a week. Well worth the hassle of finding, KSET has...
Unska 3
In business since 2001 under Josip Matć, SoM houses mostly CDs, 7,000 in number, with 1,500 LPs, new and used, from prog rock to psychedelia, blues to new...
Tratinska 30
Legendary venue that has hosted innumerable international names (the Buzzcocks, Jonathan Richman, Einstürzende Neubauten and Mogwai to name but four)...
Trnjanski nasip
A rambling complex which contains many venues, the Student Centre (Studentski centar, or simply 'SC') hosts a variety of club, gig and festival-related...
Savska 25
Located in a former industrial building that is now inhabited by a strange mixture of boxing clubs, sports gyms and bars (go round the back and head up the...
Šubićeva 55/1