Cafés

Antrakt

A real labour of love, real effort has gone into creating this space, and the overall effect isn’t unlike entering a time machine. Read_on (No Comments)

Batida

There are a few Batidas around the city, but for the full Viennese coffee house experience you need to get yourself to the flagship on Marszałkowska. Read_on (No Comments)

Blikle Café

A part of Warsaw folklore. This is where Charles De Gaulle used to come for his donuts back in his Warsaw days, and Blikle still sell a chocolate and marzipan cake honouring their famous guest. Read_on (2 Comments)

Café au Lait

Next to the Westin, which knows a thing or two about coffee and cakes, Au Lait needs to be good. Fortunately, it is. It is also about ten times cheaper than its neighbour. Read_on (1 Comment)

Cafe Bar Bla-Bla

A treat to behold, and one for true coffee enthusiasts. This greenish coffeehouse comes stacked with jars of coffee from places you’d only normally hear about on the Discovery Channel. Read_on (1 Comment)

Café Bristol

Join the upper echelons of society in this premium priced cafe. The chequered swing era decor wouldn’t be out of place in The Great Gatsby, and comes complete with pretty waitresses ferrying coffee and pastries to rich Americans. Read_on (1 Comment)

Cafe Gallery Belle Epoque

A complete haven of calm with a pleasingly incoherent mix of gramophones, globes, lampshades and antiques. There’s character in abundance here, with the added plus of crackly jazz classics playing in the background. Read_on (No Comments)

Café Meryk

An adorable cafe with a classic look embellished by the presence of stripped wood floors, black and white photos and even some vintage looking dolls – scary. Read_on (No Comments)

Cafe Próżna

Making a stir with Warsaw’s intellectuals is Cafe Próżna, a cracking cafe set inside a shattered building that looks ready to keel over. Read_on (No Comments)

Café Vincent

This place is a great authentic French bakery and coffee shop doing a huge range of authentic pastries and bread. This is rather Read_on (No Comments)

Cafe Wspólna

Their name translate to Common Café, but this place is anything but average. As a quaint neighbourhood spot it’s the Read_on (1 Comment)

Caffé Balgera

A good-looking, split-level endeavour sellingpastries and desserts. Quality tiramisu and other goodies available for take away. Read_on (No Comments)

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Coffee Karma

Earnest looking intellectuals read Hesse while taking languid sips of hand-roasted coffee. Huge windows afford views of Pl. Read_on (No Comments)

Colombia coffee, lunch & cocktail bar

Colombia is an ideal option for schizophrenics or warring couples who can’t make a decision: with a coffee-slinging barista on the first level and a full bar on the second, no one has to compromise when it comes to coffee vs. Read_on (No Comments)

Costa Coffee

Within the space of three minutes Costa Coffee have invaded Poland and opened in practically every major urban area – from Katowice to Gdansk. Read_on (No Comments)

Cośtam Cośtam Deli & Coffee Bar

A cool little café/deli/eatery adorned with bright colours, flowers and bits of folk art hanging overhead. The menu is in large a snacky affair, and includes muffins, pancakes and some cooling żurek. Read_on (1 Comment)

Czuły Barbarzyńca

Our favourite venue in the vicinity of the Copernicus Science Centre. Looking much like a bookstore from outside, venture inside Read_on (No Comments)

Embassy

See The Incomes House. Read_on (No Comments)

Espressamente illy

Not dissimilar to taking refreshment in a hairdressers; there’s plenty of mirrors and clinical whites to drink amid, and even the waitresses look like they could work in a salon. Read_on (3 Comments)

Francuska 30

Join the rich and (want to be) famous of Saska Kępa in Francuska 30, a friendly café bar whose principle highlight are superb photo displays that change every three months or so. Read_on (1 Comment)

Gadka Szmatka

Half cafe, half craft workshop, Gadka Szmatka has carved out a niche that encourages latte sipping and decoupage in the same location. Read_on (No Comments)

Gander's Tea Room

The Ganders experience isn’t unlike stepping into a Canterbury tea room, what with all the lacework, paintings and wooden cabinets. Read_on (No Comments)

Green Coffee

Occupying a spot in the shadow of the Novotel, Green Coffee offers a selection of leaf teas, coffees, sandwiches and snacks amid comfortable sofas and black and white prints. Read_on (No Comments)

Häagen–Dazs

Considered by many as the best brand of ice cream in the world, it's fitting that the Warsaw home of Häagen–Dazs should be on Nowy Świat. Read_on (No Comments)

Kawiarnia Funky

The arrival of Funky Galleria café at Pl. Zbawiciela cements the location as a certified café ghetto alongside Charlotte and Coffee Karma. Read_on (No Comments)

Kawiarnia Kafka

This popular standout café is a favorite of students with good reason. Outside are scattered beach chairs that are often Read_on (No Comments)

Kawiarnia Ogrody

Of all the newbies this time round few deserve higher praise than Kawiarnia Ogrody, a lovely café overlooking the Stalin-era pinkish commune of Mariensztat. Read_on (No Comments)

Kawka

A dainty tonic to the brawny atmosphere of next door Pub 7, Kawka is full of Krakowian charisma. Racks of magazines, Read_on (No Comments)

Keks

Keks is one of the most popular cakes in Poland (a bit like an Old English fruitcake), and you can expect to find a very good slice of the stuff waiting for you here. Read_on (No Comments)

Komiks

Zany comic strips are set on the bar, and a once-green wall is now painted with them too. For office hours the smoothies and snacks are a steal, while other times go hell for leather and blitz into their cocktails. Read_on (No Comments)

La Vanille

If you happily consider frosting as one of the four major food groups then newcomer La Vanille is your kind of place. The menu begins and ends with cupcakes – just cupcakes – in flavours like white chocolate and strawberry, tiramisu and red velvet. Read_on (No Comments)

Leniviec

On the surface there isn’t much to distinguish newcomer Leniviec from the scores of other cafes in town: the walls are covered in large, strange paintings, the music piped in is of the indie variety and the latte is more than serviceable. Read_on (No Comments)

Lobby Bar

The storied Marriott, Warsaw’s first Western hotel chain to follow the fall of communism, has recently completed an impressive overhaul of its reception and Lobby Bar. Read_on (No Comments)

Łysy Pingwin

At the heart of Praga’s Boho renaissance stands the Bald Penguin, a tatty bar/café swarming with academics and unsigned musicians. Read_on (1 Comment)

Magiel Café

Consider this the first (and only) time we’ll describe laundry as charming. New Magiel Café adorns its interior with washboards, vintage soap ads and lines of clean wash, a charming nod to the space’s former life as a launderette. Read_on (No Comments)

Między Nami

Reopened after a brisk redecoration that seemingly involved no more than lick of white paint and a scrub of the floorboards. This is essentially still the same Między Nami of old, with stark walls, light bulbs pointed at the ceiling and cool projections. Read_on (2 Comments)

Między Słowami

A relaxed living room space with floral sofas, crimson wallpapering and vases of flowers; a great background if you’re looking for something a little more alternative to modern Warsaw coffee culture. Read_on (No Comments)

Ministerstwo Kawy

Another café at Plac Zbawiciela? Just when we thought it had reached critical mass (Charlotte, Coffee Karma and Kawiarnia Read_on (No Comments)

MiTo art.cafe.books

This café/bookstore/art gallery hybrid meets multiple needs on busy Warynskiego. Whether you’re a student hiding beyond Read_on (No Comments)

My'O'My

Teeny tiny My O My is postage-stamp sized and completely adorable. Considering it’s size we’re not sure how they’re Read_on (No Comments)

Opasły Tom PIW

It's odds on this will become your favourite Warsaw bistro and wine bar in an instant. From outside it looks more like a bookshop, given the healthy numbers of volumes on display (all of which you are free to pick up and read). Read_on (No Comments)

Osir Cafe

Associate with tattooed cycling enthusiasts in Osir, a weird café where investment stopped the moment a couple of bikes were attached to the ceiling. Read_on (1 Comment)

Pachnący Dom Same Fusy

An arcane looking candle lit cellar that induces a zen like spell on all who enter. The design is very Lord of the Rings, with tree trunks used as tables and a scattering of artsy oddities hanging off the walls. Read_on (No Comments)

Pauza Cafe

Warsaw’s showbiz types just love Pauza, a crisp white locale set inside Sir Norman Foster’s award winning eyesore on plac Piłsudskiego. Read_on (No Comments)

Piękna Bistro - Espresso

Open from the crack of dawn and aimed at those who rush to work with computer bags hoisted over their shoulders. Coffee on the Read_on (No Comments)

Pijalnia Czekolady Wedel

Poland’s best loved confectioners have set up home in the InterConti, with the bullseye location making it something of a rival to the Marriott’s Lobby Bar as the best place for a laptop and coffee chinwag. Read_on (No Comments)

RoRo Lounge Cafe

Given that it is on the ground floor of a skyscraper with no clue as to its existence, it's a place you simply have to know about via word of mouth. Read_on (No Comments)

Saint Honoré

The smell of freshly baked French breads and croissants will easily lure you into Saint Honore, which features an exceptional spread of baked goods – a nice alternative if you’ve burned out on Polish doughnuts from the local piekarnia. Read_on (No Comments)

SensNonsensu

A weird name, vintage furnishings, leftfield music acts and people with DIY haircuts. It almost goes without saying you’ll find SensNonsensu in Praga, what’s a little more surprising is the storming choice of beer. Read_on (No Comments)

Sklep z Kanapkami

A shabby-chic little bistro on Krakowskie that's a great place to stop for a smoothie and snack. It has a young and rather carefree feel, as do the staff, who are sometimes too busy being young and carefree amongst themselves to notice you. Read_on (No Comments)

Słodki Słony

Exceedingly ornate interiors announce the arrival of one more Magda Gessler venture, this one with a heavy emphasis on cakes, pastries and chocolate. Read_on (No Comments)

Specjały Regionalne

This is a great little café and deli serving out meat and potatoes in all their varying Polish forms, but in small enough portions to not come away in pain. Read_on (No Comments)

Starbucks Coffee

Anti-globalists weep. After years of threatening so the agents of Satan, Starbucks, have opened shop in Warsaw, and in the most obvious location of all – bang on Nowy Świat. Read_on (No Comments)

Szpilka

Szpilka once stood on the cutting edge of Warsaw’s night scene, offering a modern European menu, round-the-clock hours and sharp design. Read_on (No Comments)

Tarabuk Księgarnia Kawiarnia

Where coffee meets culture. Found in student land Tarabuk has shelves lined with complicated books, most of which will refuse to make sense unless you’ve mastered the local lingo. Read_on (No Comments)

Tel-Aviv Cafe + Deli

Jewish cuisine in Warsaw gets a bad rap – think singing waiters and old town rip-offs. So Tel Aviv is a refreshing change, a cool café/deli which doesn’t play to the standard caricature. Read_on (No Comments)

Tok cafe

A great find that’s rising up the rankings to emerge as one of Warsaw’s best loved meeting points. You’ve seen Read_on (1 Comment)

To Lubię

Divine. Coffee, cakes, pies, breakfast, coffee and apple or plum crumble at 12zl a slice (not necessarily in that order). Opposite Read_on (No Comments)

Tree Some Coffee

Sitting on the oft-forgotten and sadly overlooked northern side of the PkiN, this is a glorious little sandwich and coffee bar, all bright colours and happy staff, which appears popular with a young, studenty crowd looking for tasty bargains. Read_on (No Comments)

Tree Some Coffee

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TVN Cafe

A pretty nondescript cafe listed because it is set in the foyer of Poland's biggest independent television company's studio. Read_on (No Comments)

Vienna Café

A welcome splurge. Popular for hushed one-on-one meetings Vienna is all posh furnishings and trays of cakes sitting on important looking cutlery. Read_on (No Comments)

Wave Hunters Cafe

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Wayne's Coffee

Sweden's biggest coffee shop chain has its most central outlet in the Złote Tarasy shopping mall. Good coffee, cakes and biscuits in 3 city locations. Read_on (No Comments)

Wrzenie Świata

Set back from stylish Nowy Swiat, this combination bookstore/cafe is so awash in hipster bookishness that you expect to see James Franco hunched over a copy of 100 Years of Solitude. Read_on (No Comments)

Zielnik

From the outside it may look like you are about to enter a florist. A gorgeous interior split into four dining rooms come bursting with plants, greenery, and froufrou Laura Ashley touches. Read_on (No Comments)

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