It’s Friday night, shortly before the witching hour. Any club worth its sound system should be winding into the weekend by now. But as I descend the stairs into Krakow’s latest nightspot, Face2Face, I’m dismayed to see that the staff outnumber the drinkers. As for the dancefloor, the only motion is a solitary bundle of tumbleweed blowing across it. There were five hundred people here last week the barmaid tells me, for the club’s much-hyped opening party with Robert M. A typically ill-planned launch, it seems the management played all their trumps on the one night which they could guarantee good business anyway. When I ask who the DJ is tonight, not even the staff can tell me: “Someone from Frantic, I think.” Face2Face is a good-looking venue, with the right mix of swank (comfortable chairs, chrome touches and clean toilets) and idiosyncrasy (piano DJ booth, floor to ceiling curtains and retro bathroom tiles), but for a new club to prise punters away from their established haunts it’s going to have to try harder than this.

3.5 / 5

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