Drinks
Poles' capacity for alcohol has never been in doubt, and drinking is a national pursuit. Much of the drinking goes on in restaurants, which in smaller towns or villages are often the only outlets selling alcohol. In the cities and larger towns, there's a far greater range of atmospheric and pleasant drinking holes than there used to be a few years ago, with a convivial crop of privately run bars ( bary ) and cafe-bars , plus the odd faux-Irish, Scottish or English pub . As a result, hotel bars - once the preserve of Westerners or wealthier Poles - have lost their stranglehold on the tourist market and are largely the preserve of businessmen and prostitutes. You'll still come across traditional drink bars - basic and functional, these are almost exclusively male terrain and generally best avoided: the haunt of wide boys and hardened alcoholics, they reflect the country's serious alcohol problems, caused in part by the traditional preference for spirits over beer or wine. Among the younger generation, however, things are changing - not least as a result of a massive advertising campaign by the breweries - with beer rapidly replacing vodka as the tipple of choice.
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