Pekarna Osem ★ 4.6
Andrej Gerzelj has baked Pekarna Osem on Stari trg since 2013 with traceable Slovenian ingredients, sourdough loaves and daily sweet and savoury bakes.
Worth the queue: Sourdough country loaf
Bakery counters in Ljubljana worth queuing for: levain breads, laminated pastry, regional bakes and the morning ritual.
Where to queue for bread and pastry
Pekarna Vasko ★ 4.0
Pekarna Vasko bakes the traditional Slovenian range, from the Pohorska gibanica layered cake to pohorska kruh seeded loaf and burek for office mornings.
Worth the queue: Pohorska gibanica
Le Petit Boulangerie ★ 4.0
Le Petit's small French bakery counter on Trg francoske revolucije runs daily butter croissants, baguettes and a Slovenian-French mix of tartes du jour.
Worth the queue: Butter croissant
Pekarna Jamnik ★ 4.2
Pekarna Jamnik runs a long-running family bakery on Celovska, with the city's best rye sourdough and a daily seeded loaf in heavy demand from local.
Worth the queue: Rye sourdough
Klobasarna ★ 4.2
Klobasarna doubles as a counter for Slovenian-traditional bakery items, including struklji rolled dumplings, a daily ricet barley bake and the Kaiser roll.
Worth the queue: Kranjska klobasa with Kaiser roll
Olimpija Burek ★ 3.8
Olimpija's late-night burek window near the Triple Bridge runs a phyllo-and-filling rotation of meat, cheese and spinach burek 18 hours a day.
Worth the queue: Meat burek
Nobel Burek ★ 3.7
Nobel runs the city's classic 24-hour burek window opposite Triple Bridge, a fixture for after-club hunger since the 1990s. A TableJourney editor pick.
Worth the queue: Cheese burek
Pekarna Kruhek ★ 4.0
Pekarna Kruhek on Trubarjeva pulls Slovenian-flour sourdough out of the oven from 06:00 and lays out a small daily pastry case beside the loaves.
Worth the queue: Country sourdough
Ja, pr' Lectar gingerbread counter ★ 4.0
The Lectar inn on Stari trg keeps a small counter for the family's Radovljica gingerbread tradition, including the heart-shaped lectarjevo srce.
Worth the queue: Heart-shaped gingerbread
Kavarna Zvezda pastry counter ★ 4.0
Kavarna Zvezda's pastry counter on Wolfova works in the old Habsburg city-cafe register, with potica, prekmurska gibanica and house Sacher-style chocolate.
Worth the queue: Potica
EK Bistro bakery ★ 4.4
EK Bistro doubles as a small daily bakery, baking its own brioche, English muffins and cinnamon rolls every morning for the brunch room. A TableJourney pick.
Worth the queue: Brioche cinnamon roll
Pekarna Mauer ★ 3.9
Pekarna Mauer keeps a Habsburg pastry-shop register on Slovenska cesta, apple strudel and seeded loaves anchoring a daily case popular with office regulars.
Worth the queue: Apple strudel