As Enschede has a university and is the largest town in the eastern Netherlands it has a fair amount of bars and cafes. The Old Market Dutch: Oude Markt is the location of many bars and bistros which have large terasses, making it the perfect location for a drink on a warm summer night. The oldest pub in Enschede is Het Bolwerk, in the Bolwerkstraat, where one can drink a wide variety of beers and spirits, with the shocking exception of the Enschede-brewed Grolsch. While the hipper crowds turn to places like Aspen Valley and Central Park, the alternative scene spends their saturday night in Atak, where one can see a wide variety of customers from hippies to gothics to hard-core-metal-lovers.
