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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.
Signature drink: Pour-over coffee
Tip: Pour-over and espresso brewed alongside monthly guest roasters. Light lunch menu of salads, soups and wraps.
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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.
Signature drink: Filter coffee
Tip: Eggs Benedict the breakfast pick; the cinnamon bun runs out by 11:00.
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Cytat Cafe on Miodowa in Kraków's Kazimierz is the literary cafe with secondhand books on every shelf and quotes stencilled across the walls.
Signature drink: Large filter coffee with a printed quote
Tip: Breakfast on a croissant runs until 13:00; an entire wall of boardgames keeps the afternoon crowd seated.
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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.
Signature drink: Iced latte
Tip: The glass-roofed terrace works year-round; the heated awnings run in winter.
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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.
Signature drink: Turkish coffee
Tip: Turkish coffee in copper jezve is the order; the back room runs hummus plates after 17:00.
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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.
Signature drink: Pastel de nata
Tip: The pastéis de nata are baked through the morning; weekend afternoons sell out by mid-afternoon.