Kawiarnia Naukowa on Jakuba in Kraków's Kazimierz is the academic cafe Maciek Tarnogórski runs with a bookshop and a roaster: third-wave coffee and quiet tables.
Tip: Closes 20:00. The window-seat tables go first. Cash and card.
Address: ul. Jakuba 29, 31-057 Kraków
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 since 1995.
Signature drink: Iced latte
Tip: The 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.
Signature drink: Turkish coffee
Tip: Turkish 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. Espresso, cortado, custard tarts.
Signature drink: Pastel de nata
Tip: The 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. Three rooms, marble tables, a torte counter, older-Krakow regulars on the terrace.
Signature drink: Viennese melange
Tip: The cherry torte and a melange make the Habsburg-cafe order. Terrace on Rynek Główny.
Cafe Camelot off Kraków's Świętego Tomasza is the wood-panelled folk-art cafe that ran the city's coffee tradition through the 1990s. Apple pie and a laptop crowd.
Signature drink: Cafe latte
Tip: The apple pie is the dish; the back-room library has tables for laptops.
Noworolski inside the Cloth Hall on Kraków's Rynek Główny pours coffee in Józef Mehoffer's art-nouveau rooms since 1910. Krakow artists, Habsburg-era trade.
Signature drink: Viennese coffee
Tip: The art-nouveau rooms are the photograph; the terrace on Rynek Główny is the better summer seat.
