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 Osem ★ 4.6

Bakery€stari-gradMon-Fri 08:00-18:00, closed Sat-SunHandmade levain bread, daily rotating cakes

Andrej Gerzelj has baked Pekarna Osem on Stari trg since 2013 with traceable Slovenian ingredients, sourdough loaves and daily sweet and savoury.

Worth the queue: Sourdough country loaf

Stari trg 19, 1000 Ljubljana

Pekarna Vasko ★ 4.0

Bakery€siskaTraditional Slovenian bread and pastries

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

Celovska cesta 89, 1000 Ljubljana

Pekarna Jamnik ★ 4.2

Bakery€siskaWhole-grain sourdough and seeded loaves

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

Celovska cesta 269, 1000 Ljubljana

Klobasarna ★ 4.2

Bakery€stari-gradDaily 10:00-22:00Slovenian sausage and traditional bakery items

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

Ciril Metodov trg 15, 1000 Ljubljana

Olimpija Burek ★ 3.8

Bakery€centerDaily 06:00-24:00Balkan-style burek

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

Presernov trg 1, 1000 Ljubljana

Nobel Burek ★ 3.7

Bakery€centerDaily 24 hoursBalkan-style burek, 24 hours

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

Miklosiceva cesta 30, 1000 Ljubljana

Pekarna Kruhek ★ 4.0

Bakery€centerDaily sourdough and rye breads

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

Trubarjeva cesta 41, 1000 Ljubljana

Ja, pr' Lectar gingerbread counter ★ 4.0

Bakery€stari-gradDaily 12:00-21:00Traditional Slovenian gingerbread

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

Stari trg 17, 1000 Ljubljana

Kavarna Zvezda pastry counter ★ 4.0

Bakery€centerMon-Sat 07:00-23:00, Sun 10:00-20:00Habsburg-style cakes and potica slices

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

Wolfova ulica 14, 1000 Ljubljana

EK Bistro bakery ★ 4.4

Bakery€centerMon-Sat 08:00-24:00, Sun 08:00-15:00Homemade brioche and cinnamon rolls

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

Petkovskovo nabrezje 65, 1000 Ljubljana

Brot Pekarna ★ 4.5

Bakery€centerMon-Fri 08:00-17:00, Sat 08:00-14:00Sourdough breads and French croissants

Brot Pekarna on Poljanska is a family-run artisan bakery with an international team, the carte three sourdoughs (white, half-white and Borodinsky).

Worth the queue: Borodinsky sourdough with coriander seeds

Poljanska cesta 11, 1000 Ljubljana
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