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 Mauer keeps a Habsburg pastry-shop register on Slovenska cesta, apple strudel and seeded loaves anchoring a daily case popular with office regulars.
Address: Slovenska cesta 28, 1000 Ljubljana
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
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
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
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 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 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'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