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The Best Cafes in Bucharest

Bucharest is home a huge number of great cafes, many of which double up as bars and offer cocktails and beer alongside the coffee.

The city's cafe culture is so vibrant in fact that it is quickly becoming one of Bucharest's biggest attractions. Enjoy.

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Atelier Cafe

Cafe and gallery, where you can enjoy an artistic coffee while browsing some fine contemporary Romanian art from the likes of Ion Silisteanu, Sorin Ilfoveanu and Mihai Cismaru. Read_on (No Comments)

Bruno Wine & Coffee Shop

So much more than wine and coffee on offer here you will be forgiven for thinking you have the wrong place! This is a bistro really, Read_on (1 Comment)

Cafe Antipa by Artex

Bucharest’s best museum (well, a contender for that title, anyway) also has its full-on cafe, right inside the museum building. Read_on (1 Comment)

Cafe Manuc

The Hanul lui Manuc'sclassic cafe is one of the best places in the city to sit and enjoy either coffee - and there is a huge range - or cocktails (both with and without alcohol). Read_on (No Comments)

Cafeneaua Carada

Large, impressive new cafe next to Romania's national bank, where the big windows looking out onto one of the city's few busy pedestrian streets are what will have you heading inside. Read_on (1 Comment)

Cafe Times

Free Wifi with your (excellent) coffee and a can-do attitude from the staff who appear to realise that sometimes people are busy, and need their coffee double quick. Read_on (No Comments)

French Bakery

It had to happen. Bucharest's smartest chain of bakeries comes to Old Town, complete with its fine selection of sandwiches, delicious tarts and cakes, great coffee and a super, covered (at this time of year) terrace outside on the sexiest part of Old Town. Read_on (No Comments)

Gio Cafe

Popular with business types in the mornings, who come here to talk big numbers over coffee and pastries, as the day moves on the clientele gets just a little younger and just a little hipper. Read_on (No Comments)

Grand Cafe Van Gogh

Grand Cafe Van Gogh
Amazing how quickly this place became the default Bucharest 'meet you there' venue. Its genius is that it's ideal Read_on (5 Comments)

Green Tea

Magnificent. We know that there have been tea houses in Bucharest before, but none were ever like this. A gorgeous villa whose Read_on (No Comments)

Iguana Caffe

A bright, modern cafe in Bucharest's Old Town. As new as a shiny button expect some of the city's best home-made lemonade - at a decent prize, we hasten to add - as well as a raft of other drinks. Read_on (No Comments)

Klein Cafe

Good cafe situated on the mezzanine floor of the Rembrandt hotel; it is the only non-smoking cafe in the Old Town we believe. Read_on (2 Comments)

La Gallette

Classy cafe and patisserie at the Pullman, a popular choice with guests and office workers from the World Trade Center. The range of pastries is just about second to none in Bucharest, while the coffees are great value for what is after all a five-star hotel. Read_on (No Comments)

Leonidas

What started as (the city's best) choclaterie selling fine Belgian chocolates, pralines and marzipans in a variety of Read_on (No Comments)

Les Bourgeois

Les Bourgeois was one of the first places to open on Strada Smardan, long before the street became fashionable. It remains popular because of its ability to keep coming up with great food, and because it works both as a café, bar and restaurant. Read_on (No Comments)

Music Rooms Cafe

Three rooms offering three different kinds of music: jazz/rock, Cuban and chillout. There is funky decor in all three, the prices Read_on (No Comments)

Readers Cafe

This place is one of the great things about the Metropolis Centre, of which the Starlight Suites and Loft restaurant also from part. Read_on (No Comments)

Serendipity Tea House

Tea, and lots of it. There are more than 55 types of tea available, including the trademark Serendipity, an aromatic yet fruity green tea with more than a hint of strawberries. Read_on (No Comments)

Tekaffe

The in-house cafe at the Hello Hotel is as smart, cheap and good value as the hotel itself. Serves good coffee, pastries and the like, and all with added Wifi. Read_on (No Comments)

The Livingroom Cafe

Always been a favourite place of ours, not least because it does look a little like, well. a living room. It is the kind of place that you want to stay all night in, feet up on the sofa watching television and knocking back coffee and cocktails. Read_on (No Comments)

Tonka Soul Cafe

This place has indeed got soul, and plenty else besides. Warm and quiet coffee house by day, it becomes the perfect aperitivo spot when the sun goes down, then gets really wild as the music gets louder and the hours get shorter. Read_on (No Comments)

Una

Not a cafe, not a bar, not a pub. This is a bright, happy place for all sorts of events, from karaoke evenings to children's craft fairs, poetry evenings to film nights. Read_on (No Comments)

Unique Bistro Cafe

Coffee, tea (a vast selection) and cocktails on Str. Franceza in Old Town. While many will insist it is at its best in the warmer months when you can sit outside on the terrace, we like it at this time of year, as the interior is cosy. Read_on (No Comments)

Verona Garden / Cafe Verona

Sublime. The brilliant Carturesti bookshop has long served coffee with its books, and now there is wine; and cocktails too. Read_on (No Comments)

Vienna Lounge

The Marriott’s posh flagship café, which is exactly as you’d expect: classy, enjoyable and expensive. Sit and Read_on (No Comments)