Kavarna Cacao ★ 3.9
Kavarna Cacao on the embankment has been a riverside coffee-and-cake stop since the 2000s, popular with locals for its terrace and chocolate menu.
Signature drink: Chocolate with espresso
EK Bistro doubles as the city's serious daytime cafe with specialty coffee on the bar and house-baked cinnamon rolls coming out hourly. A TableJourney pick.
Address: Petkovskovo nabrezje 65, 1000 Ljubljana
Kavarna Cacao on the embankment has been a riverside coffee-and-cake stop since the 2000s, popular with locals for its terrace and chocolate menu.
Signature drink: Chocolate with espresso
Kavarna Zvezda by Park Zvezda is the classic Habsburg-style city coffee house, white tablecloths and house pastries with a slice of potica on the menu.
Signature drink: Vienna-style coffee with potica slice
Buna pours the eponymous Slovenian sustainability-focused roastery's beans in a small Trg republike room, a working-day coffee for office regulars.
Signature drink: Sustainable specialty coffee
Stow inside the Ljubljana City Museum on Gosposka brought third-wave coffee to Slovenia. Brew bar, single-origin espresso on a La Marzocco, V60 and Chemex.
Signature drink: Single-origin filter coffee
Stow 2 Go is the take-away counter steps from Preseren Square, pulling the same beans and presses as the City Museum room with a focused walk-up menu.
Signature drink: Single-origin espresso
Kavarna Cacao on the embankment has been a riverside coffee-and-cake stop since the 2000s, popular with locals for its terrace and chocolate menu.
Signature drink: Chocolate with espresso
Kavarna Zvezda by Park Zvezda is the classic Habsburg-style city coffee house, white tablecloths and house pastries with a slice of potica on the menu.
Signature drink: Vienna-style coffee with potica slice
Buna pours the eponymous Slovenian sustainability-focused roastery's beans in a small Trg republike room, a working-day coffee for office regulars.
Signature drink: Sustainable specialty coffee
Stow inside the Ljubljana City Museum on Gosposka brought third-wave coffee to Slovenia. Brew bar, single-origin espresso on a La Marzocco, V60 and Chemex.
Signature drink: Single-origin filter coffee
Stow 2 Go is the take-away counter steps from Preseren Square, pulling the same beans and presses as the City Museum room with a focused walk-up menu.
Signature drink: Single-origin espresso
Crno Zrno on Gornji trg below the castle is the Colombian shop of Alexander Nino Ruiz, single-origin beans direct from small farms with a cold brew that won.
Signature drink: Colombian cold brew