Also: Cafés in Krakow
Where to sit, sip and slow down in Kraków.
Coffee shops, bakeries with seats and the places Kraków lingers in over a cortado.
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.
DrinkCafe latte
TipThe apple pie is the dish; the back-room library has tables for laptops.
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.
DrinkViennese coffee
TipThe art-nouveau rooms are the photograph; the terrace on Rynek Główny is the better summer seat.
Jama Michalika on Kraków's Floriańska opened in 1895 as Cukiernia Lwowska. From 1905 hosted the Zielony Balonik cabaret; the Mloda Polska meeting room.
DrinkHot chocolate
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.
DrinkFilter coffee
TipThe carrot cake is the dish. Quietest before 11:00 if you want a workspace.
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.
DrinkFlat white
TipCloses 19:00 weekdays, 17:00 weekends. Cash and card. Brunch served until 14:00.
Cafe Mleczarnia in Kraków's Kazimierz is the old courtyard cafe behind the Tempel Synagogue: wooden chairs, hot apple cake, a leafy garden hidden.
DrinkCafe au lait
TipThe hidden courtyard is the table to take. Closes 23:00 weekdays, midnight Friday and Saturday.
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.
DrinkPour-over coffee
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.
DrinkFilter coffee
TipEggs Benedict the breakfast pick; the cinnamon bun runs out by 11:00.
Cytat Cafe on Miodowa in Kraków's Kazimierz is the literary cafe with secondhand books on every shelf and quotes stencilled across the walls.
DrinkLarge filter coffee with a printed quote
TipBreakfast on a croissant runs until 13:00; an entire wall of boardgames keeps the afternoon crowd seated.
Bunkier Cafe inside the Bunkier Sztuki gallery on Kraków's Plac Szczepański has poured coffee under a glass-roof terrace at the edge of the Planty park.
DrinkIced latte
TipThe glass-roofed terrace works year-round; the heated awnings run in winter.
Cheder in Kraków's Kazimierz is the cafe run by the Jewish Culture Festival in a former prayer house at Józefa 36 since 2008. Hebrew library, Turkish coffee.
DrinkTurkish coffee
TipTurkish coffee in copper jezve is the order; the back room runs hummus plates after 17:00.
Cafe Lisboa on Dolnych Młynów in Kraków's Old Town has baked pastéis de nata by hand since 2017, the first Polish cafe to do so. Order the pastel de nata.
DrinkPastel de nata
TipThe pastéis de nata are baked through the morning; weekend afternoons sell out by mid-afternoon.
Europejska on Kraków's Rynek Główny pours coffee inside the historic Krzysztofory Palace. Order the viennese melange. At Rynek Główny 35. Booking recommended.
DrinkViennese melange
TipThe cherry torte and a melange make the Habsburg-cafe order. Terrace on Rynek Główny.
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