30 editor picks across Poland.
30 cafes worth the trip across Poland, editor-ranked by TableJourney. All Poland guides.
Noworolski in the Cloth Hall on Rynek Główny has poured coffee in its Secession rooms since 1910, the White Room's polychromes painted by Henryk Uziembło.
TipThe art-nouveau rooms are the photograph; the terrace on Rynek Główny is the better summer seat.
Relaks on Pulawska in Warsaw is the bike-shop-turned-specialty-coffee room staffed by former Polish barista champions. Order the specialty filter coffee.
Drukarnia Cafe in Gdańsk works a former printing house on Mariacka, the city's most photogenic street. Order the filter brewed on chemex or v60.
TipArrive before 11:00 weekends for a seat by the front window; the upstairs runs quieter.
Nieczapla in Gdańsk Wrzeszcz is the cafe in front of one of Poland's most respected micro-roasteries. Order the filter on whatever roast came out last week.
TipAsk what was roasted last week; the menu rotates faster than the printed list keeps up.
Cafe Camelot off Kraków's Świętego Tomasza is the wood-panelled folk-art cafe that ran the city's coffee tradition through the 1990s. Order the cafe latte.
TipThe apple pie is the dish; the back-room library has tables for laptops.
Karma on Kraków's Krupnicza is a third-wave cafe with a roastery in Nowa Huta. Order the flat white. At ul. Krupnicza 12. Booking recommended.
TipCloses 19:00 weekdays, 17:00 weekends. Cash and card. Brunch served until 14:00.
STOR on Tamka in Warsaw is the original location of one of the city's first third-wave coffee shops. Pour-over, espresso, plant milk by default.
Kawana in Gdańsk Wrzeszcz is the cafe attached to one of the Tri-City's best specialty roasters. Order the house-roasted single origin espresso.
TipCloses 18:00 weekdays and 16:00 Sunday; not a late-night room.
SEZON in Gdańsk is a Grobla I cafe by day, natural wine bar by night, with a tapas menu and bread from Nowy Chleb. The room is small, the espresso is sharp.
TipAfter 17:00 the format flips; ask for the wine list rather than the brew menu.
Cafe Mleczarnia in Kraków's Kazimierz is the old courtyard cafe behind the Tempel Synagogue: wooden chairs, hot apple cake, a leafy garden hidden.
TipThe hidden courtyard is the table to take. Closes 23:00 weekdays, midnight Friday and Saturday.
Stragan Kawiarnia in Poznań is the city's foundational speciality-coffee room, on Ratajczaka 31 since the early 2010s, roasting under the Craft Coffee.
TipOrder whatever is on the single-origin board and a house-baked bagel; the kitchen makes its own.
Coffeedesk on ul. Wilcza in Warsaw is the cafe outpost of Poland's biggest specialty-coffee e-commerce brand, pouring espresso and filter from rotating beans.
Paloma on Wrocław's Plac Solny is the city's most serious specialty-coffee bar, Ukrainian-owned and roasting on site. At Plac Solny 8-9. Booking recommended.
OrderThe morning V60 of whichever single-origin came off the roaster that week.
TipBring a laptop on a Tuesday-Thursday morning; weekends fill from 10:00.
Józef K. in Gdańsk is the cult Piwna Street cafe-bar named for Kafka, lit by mismatched lamps, walled with old books and impossible objects.
TipArrive after 18:00 if you want the candle-lit Kafka room rather than the daytime cafe.
Wesoła Cafe east of Kraków's Old Town runs third-wave coffee in a Rakowicka villa with Coffee Proficiency beans on pour-over and espresso, plus all-day.
TipPour-over and espresso brewed alongside monthly guest roasters. Light lunch menu of salads, soups and wraps.
Ranny Ptaszek in Kraków's Kazimierz opens at 07:30 with sourdough toast, eggs Benedict, V60 filter and a counter the early-morning runners and laptop crowd.
TipEggs Benedict the breakfast pick; the cinnamon bun runs out by 11:00.
Piece of Cake in Poznań is a small cafe-gallery on Święty Wojciech, run by Ania and Kuba pouring single-origin coffees from Five Elephant, Audun.
TipThe cake counter changes daily; ask the barista which slice was baked that morning.
Pączuś i Kawusia on Rynek Łazarski in Poznań, open since November 2016, pairs warm fresh pączki with speciality coffee in a Łazarz market-square room.
TipThe seasonal pączki flavours rotate; pistachio and rose are the year-round constants worth the visit.
MIEL Coffee on Święty Marcin 14 in Poznań is an airy French-style speciality cafe with a rotating bean board, Chemex and V60 pours, sweet pastries.
TipAsk the barista which roast came in this week and pair it with a morning croissant; the seasonal-bean rotation is the reason to come back.
E. Wedel's chocolate cafe on Szpitalna in Warsaw opened in 1894 in Emil Wedel's tenement, descended from the 1851 chocolate house. Crystal mirrors.
Kawana Łąkowa in Gdańsk Dolne Miasto is the roastery's downtown room, fifteen minutes' walk from the Old Town. Order the pour over with seasonal house roast.
TipThe cinnamon roll on the counter sells out by 12:00 weekends.
Cytat Cafe on Miodowa in Kraków's Kazimierz is the literary cafe with secondhand books on every shelf and quotes stencilled across the walls.
TipBreakfast on a croissant runs until 13:00; an entire wall of boardgames keeps the afternoon crowd seated.
Cocofli on Wrocław's Włodkowica is a bookshop by day and a wine bar by evening, with specialty coffee through the morning. At ul. Włodkowica 9.
OrderFilter coffee in the morning, a Lower Silesian Riesling by the glass after 17:00.
TipThe back room of the bookshop is the quietest seat for working between 09:00 and 12:00.
Macondo (named for the town in Garcia Marquez's novel) is a tiny Nadodrze cafe-and-curio room: specialty coffee, exceptional teas, handmade goods, small gigs.
OrderPour-over of the rotating single-origin, with a slice of whatever home cake is in the case.
TipDaily noon to 20:00; check Facebook for the evening events programme, the room turns into a tiny gig space several nights a week.
Charlotte on Św. Antoniego in Wrocław is the city's busiest French-style cafe-bakery hybrid, open from 07:00 most days. Croissants, breakfast plates.
OrderAlmond croissant and a long black, the morning calibration point.
TipThe room closes at midnight most nights; useful for a late espresso when the bars are loud.
Lang.fuhr in Gdańsk Wrzeszcz is a Wrzeszcz cafe-bar on Aldony at the Wajdeloty roundabout, listed in the European Coffee Trip guide. Specialty coffee by day.
TipCloses 23:00 weekdays, 22:00 Sunday; sit on the outside benches in summer.
Jama Michalika on Kraków's Floriańska opened in 1895 as Cukiernia Lwowska. From 1905 hosted the Zielony Balonik cabaret; the Mloda Polska meeting room.
TipThe hot chocolate is the order. The art-nouveau rooms at the back are the photograph; the terrace is the daytime spot.
Cafe Szafé on Kraków's Felicjanek is the bohemian living-room cafe west of the Planty: mismatched chairs, daily cakes, third-wave filter on the menu.
TipThe carrot cake is the dish. Quietest before 11:00 if you want a workspace.
Weranda Caffe on Świętosławska 10 in Poznań is a courtyard cafe steps off Stary Rynek, with a leafy back garden, an all-day brunch and a vegetarian-friendly.
TipSkip the front room; the back courtyard garden is the entire reason the room is on lists like.
PLAN Cafe on Za Groblą 2/1 in Poznań is a small modern cafe in the Old Town with speciality coffees, homemade cakes and tortes, and a pavement-bench summer.
TipOrder a cake of the day with the filter; the bakery is in-house and the espresso list is short by design.
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