Daktari ★ 4.0
Daktari runs a snack kitchen alongside its evening live music programme, keeping plates moving until 01:00 six nights a week. A TableJourney editor pick.
Try: Snack plates with cocktails
Cantina Mexicana's late kitchen has been the city's after-midnight standby since the 1990s, when the rest of the centre has shut for the night.
Address: Knafljev prehod 3, 1000 Ljubljana
Daktari runs a snack kitchen alongside its evening live music programme, keeping plates moving until 01:00 six nights a week. A TableJourney editor pick.
Try: Snack plates with cocktails
Tozd on Cankarjeva keeps its small toast-and-wine menu running till midnight every night, the natural wine bar of choice for the late-evening riverside crowd.
Try: Toasts and wine plates
Patrick's keeps Guinness flowing and a small pub-food kitchen running until 02:00. The reliable late stop near the central bus station. A TableJourney pick.
Try: Pub food, late pints
Druga Violina keeps the kitchen running till midnight Tuesday through Sunday, with Slovenian classics from kranjska klobasa to ricet available late.
Try: Slovenian classics
Pritlicje on Mestni trg shifts from afternoon cafe to evening bar and stays open through the city's main music nights, with a snack menu till close.
Try: Small plates with the music programme
Nobel's 24-hour burek window opposite Triple Bridge has been Ljubljana's after-club hunger cure since the 1990s. Two euros gets you a meat burek at 04:00.
Try: Meat, cheese or spinach burek