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Papa Joe's Jazzlokal: Live Jazz
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  • croisbeauty
  • By croisbeauty on March 11, 2006
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  • Papa Joe's Jazzlokal - Cologne
    Papa Joe's Jazzlokal
    by croisbeauty
    Papa Joe's is my favourite spot in whole of Cologne, it is the place where I've spend my two Colognese nights before going to sleep. The club is situated in Buttermarkt, which is a foot from my hotel. Unfortunately I couldn't take the picture inside the club, but trust the atmosphere is hot hot hot.
    What you'll find here is tons of beer and very good live classical jazz music performed by the local gropus. The place is overcrowded, the inside temperature must be over 30C degrees, you can't avoid elbow but who cares about. The inside atmosphere is extremely friendly, totally relaxed and everobody is enjoying being a part of an happy crowd. Do not miss it when in Cologne.

    No dress code!

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  • Theme: Live Music
  • Address: Buttermarkt
  • Directions: Right next to the Grosse St. Martin
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    Millions of breweries: "Be Roman in Rome"
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  • Updated By croisbeauty on October 6, 2006
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  • the most popular brewery in Cologne - Cologne
    the most popular brewery in
    Cologne
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    Brewery is of course the most popular nightlife spot in Cologne. There are great number of breweries all over the old core of the town and yet, it is almost impossible to get the free table on Fridays or Saturdays evenings. In those most popular you have to book it in advance.
    Besides all kind of beers, domestic and imported, here you can have very good and inexpensive food. This are, of course, traditional beer dishes simple to make, very tasty and abundant in portions.

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  • Theme: Eating and Drinking
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    ALTER MARKT: ...just stroll around there!
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  • Updated By Annalisa-Lucia on February 23, 2004
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  • Around Cologne's "Alter Markt" there are lots of breweries and bars. Take a train to Cologne's main station and go by foot 10 or 15 minutes and you will arrive at the "Alter Markt" and you can go from bar to bar and meet a lot of interesting people and enjoy fresh beer - KOELSCH - as long as you want to!

    just as you want to

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  • Theme: Other
  • Address: Alter Markt, Cologne "Old Town"
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    FRUEH: The most important Brewery
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  • Updated By Annalisa-Lucia on February 23, 2004
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  • Cologne's most famous brewery with the typical Cologne spirit! You can eat and drink there very good - if you find a place. At the weekend it's so overcrowded, that you can only find a place for standing - if you're lucky! But it doesn't matter, because you don't have to order your drinks...the "Koebesse" are running around through the rooms all the time and they have many glasses in their hands. You can take one and pay immediately and then - enjoy it! Cheers!

    Casual

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  • Theme: Eating and Drinking
  • Address: Am Hof, near the Cathedral and the main station
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    Zum Pfaffen: Old world ambience & old fashioned beer
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  • Updated By jayhawk2000 on November 12, 2006
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  • Wonderful pub! - Cologne
    Wonderful pub!
    by jayhawk2000
    Beer drinking in Koln is a very different kettle of fish compared to British beer drinking. In England we are used to seeing as many as a dozen hand pumps on a bar with a range of ales, lagers and stouts that come by the pint.

    In Koln, most bars serve up only one kind of beer and that only comes in dinky cylinders. Having said that, the local 'kolsch' is generally excellent and you usually enjoy the benefit of table service.

    And in another twist, the Pfaffen does not have a bar! We came tripping in and headed straight through, looking for a bar, and ended up having to scoot aside as a barrel came rolling through. They tapped the barrel there on the floor and began frantically siphoning off the beer. Basically, you grab a table and the waiter's attention. He trots over with a tray full of kolsch and slings a batch around. He'll keep them coming, all night if you like, whilst running a tally on your beer mat.

    It's a beautiful place with stained glass windows and chunky wooden furniture. It was very busy Saturday night, but we came back for a quiet Sunday lunchtime tipple. The food looks good as well. Highly recommended!

    Open 11am until 1am, closed Mondays.

    Repeat after me: "Ich hatten gern stangen Kolsch!" (Get me a stein of Kolsch!). Bitte!

    One of the smarter pubs, but there is no doorman.

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  • Theme: Eating and Drinking
  • Address: Heumarkt 62, 50667 Koln
  • Directions: The Heu-markt is below the town hall, on the southern fringe of the Aldstadt (old town). It opens out onto the busy main road leading off the Deutzer bridge
  • Website: http://www.xs4all.nl/~patto1ro/kolnpubs.htm
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    Brrauhaus Sion: lots of different varieties of Kölsch
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  • Updated By richiecdisc on June 14, 2007
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  • watching the Kölsch pouring up close at the bar - Cologne
    watching the Kölsch pouring up
    close at the bar
    by richiecdisc, 1 more photos
    Brauhaus Sion is another typical Kölsch brewpub and very conveniently located in scenic part of the old town down by the river. Two things that make these places so great is you can go in and stand at the bar (unlike most places in Germany) and Kölsch comes in small glasses (only .20 liters) so you can try many of them in one day! Sion's version was one of the drier ones and it had a great loud atmosphere as its patrons obviously enjoyed the products of the brewery.

    One of Cologne's more down to earth pubs so I felt fine in jeans.

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  • Theme: Eating and Drinking
  • Address: Unter Taschenmarcher 5
  • Phone: 257 85 40
  • Directions: on a nice street between the cathedral and market square.
  • Website: www.brauhaus-sion.de
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    The Corkonian Irish Pub: Kölsch, Irish-style
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  • By BillNJ on May 28, 2008
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  • Cologne Nightlife
    by BillNJ
    During my second night in Cologne, I enjoyed a nice chat with two young German women and an Irish bartender in The Corkonian Irish Pub in the Alter Markt. I ordered a Kölsch, and it was served in a large glass (not a traditional 200ml Kölsch Stange).

    The Corkonian is a friendly Irish pub in a great location. Experience Kölsch, Irish-style.

    No special dress requirements

  • Theme: Eating and Drinking
  • Address: Alter Markt 51
  • Directions: Alter Markt
  • Website: http://www.the-corkonian-irish-pub.sportkneipe.de/
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    Papa Joes: Musical entertainment
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  • Updated By LizD on August 31, 2004
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  • Papa Joes mechanical band - Cologne
    Papa Joes mechanical band
    by LizD
    We called in Papa Joes for a couple of beers as we could hear some lively music coming from inside.

    As we went inside we realised the tunes were coming from two mechanical musicians playing behind the bar what appeared to be an accordian and tuba.

    It gave the place plenty of atmosphere, worth a visit if you’re passing.

    They also served food but we didn't try any while we were there.

    Sorry the photo isn’t very good but it was very dark inside.

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  • Theme: Eating and Drinking
  • Address: Alter Markt 50-52
  • Website: www.papajoes.de
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    Reissdorf-Stübchen: Small pub on Domstrasse
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  • Updated By BillNJ on May 30, 2008
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  • Cologne Nightlife
    by BillNJ
    On my first night in Cologne, I stopped for a Reissdorf Kölsch at the Reissdorf-Stübchen which was close to my hotel (Hotel Domstern) on Domstrasse. I sat at the bar in this small, local pub. Over a Kölsch, I had a disjointed conversation with a friendly German. Unfortunately, his grasp of English was not much better than my present grasp of German (which is minimal).

    This small pub is a nice local spot, but it is not someplace to which I would go out of my way to find. Decent place to relax over a Kölsch if you are in the neighborhood.

  • Theme: Eating and Drinking
  • Address: Domstr. 21, 50668 Köln
  • Directions: Near the Breslauer Platz exit of the Hauptbahnhof
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    Any Old Town Pub: on the Kölsch hunt
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  • Updated By richiecdisc on June 14, 2007
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  • another pub, another Kölsch - Cologne
    another pub, another
    Kölsch
    by richiecdisc
    One thing even the non-beer tourist will notice about Cologne is it's preponderance of pubs. You can't walk more than 100 feet without going by one. There are also a lot of different varieties of Kölsch. In the late 1980s there were 20 breweries in Cologne, more than any city in the world but the number has now dwindled to 12 with many of the bigger ones taking over the smaller. There are still quite a few varieties of Kölsch to try and Reissdorf is one of the more ubiquitous. I found the beer quite fruity on my first trip and didn't get to see how the beer has changed on my recent stopover. Hey. there's only so much beer....er, I mean time in a day. ;)

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  • Theme: Eating and Drinking
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