Feb 9, 2025

Booze and Blues Zagreb

Your dad would also love it

""Booze and Blues" is on Zagreb's Tkalčićeva street, which I'd normally avoid but I'll gladly make an exception for this true rock 'n' roll haunt..."

If you have visited Zagreb even only for one day, you most probably know about Tkalčićeva street and you've been there on a night out. If you live in Zagreb, you probably rather skip it knowing there are many more interesting places to go out for a beer. But for Booze and Blues I'll gladly make an exception. If you're decisive enough to make it past what feels like a hundred bars and cafes from the beginning of the street and hungry enough for some real rock 'n' roll - you'll be rewarded right on the end of Zagreb's most famous bar-street.

There's live music every night Thursday - Sunday and it's usually good. The staff is friendly & fast, there is enough space to dance (even if you're just standing at the bar) and it closes at 2 am - which is the only reasonable time to go home if you're a person with a full-time job who after five days of work can only motivate herself for a very relaxing weekend, but stills feels too young to give up partying completely. And who is more than decently tipsy after two large beers and a Pelinkovac.

When the music stops and the lights go on you still feel like you want more, but this is it. If you go home now, you'll go home happy & you'll wake up happy the next morning. (Don't stop at Alcatraz on your way home. Just don't. You don't need that last drink. You'll thank me tomorrow.)

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Ulica Ivana Tkalčića 84

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