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
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.
Address: Trubarjeva cesta 41, 1000 Ljubljana
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 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 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
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'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 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 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
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
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