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Cafés in Ljubljana

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Ljubljana's café culture has always been one of our favourite things about the city. When the weather's nice the entire old town is abuzz with activity at the pavement cafés that line nearly every street. During the colder months things move indoors, but thanks to the national smoking ban you're still apt to find a fair amount of patrons outside huddled under heat lamps and blankets puffing away on coffee's significant other. The most popular places can be found along the Ljubljanica on Cankarjevo Nabrežje and Petkovškovo Nabrežje on the opposite bank, but with so many options to choose from just wandering around until you find a place you fancy is never a bad option. 

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Abecedarium

Half café-bar, half international restaurant, this lovely 1528 building is believed to be the oldest house in the city. Read_on (No Comments)

Bar Izložba

Bar Izložba
A cosy little café hidden a few steps off Dunajska Cesta. The compact interior looks like something you would find in Sarajevo's Read_on (No Comments)

Bazilika Shop & Cafe

Right next to the courthouse and in one the busiest areas of Ljubljana, this café is the closest thing you’ll find to an oasis in the city. Read_on (No Comments)

Bife Ježek

A tiny little café-bar in the middle of nowhere, good for a pick-me-up coffee or something a little stronger if you’re stranded hereabouts. Read_on (No Comments)

Cacao

If you like ice-cream, and who doesn’t, then this is your place. Along with the usual coffee, tea, wine and beer, Cacao serves up scoops of ice-cream which you can enjoy indoors or out on the terrace overlooking the river. Read_on (1 Comment)

Café Antico

Café Antico
A Parisian feel exudes from every pore of Café Antico. Popular with middle-aged couples out for a balloon or two of Read_on (No Comments)

Cafe Caffé

Small inside but with plenty of outdoor seating, this bar cum café, with the emphasis on the café side of things, is well-located on a pedestrian strip just a short stroll from the major tourist haunts. Read_on (No Comments)

Café Gaudi

This tiny hole-in-wall around the corner from Hotel Slon looks great if you're a fan of dark wood and low arched Read_on (No Comments)

Café Plato

Café Plato
A stylish café offering a wide selection of great ice creams, cakes and tiny tarts in a unique glass-walled space right in the centre of town, its outdoor seating area is a fine place for some people watching on a sunny afternoon. Read_on (No Comments)

Cafetino

Chaotic on Saturday afternoons and not much quieter during the week, Cafetino’s split-level design provides ample seating for the city’s caffeine connoisseurs to imbibe on a range of coffees made from freshly ground coffee beans. Read_on (2 Comments)

Caffe Ljubljana

A cute curved café-bar, convenient if you’re staying at the Slamič, with a nice little courtyard out the back and a huge dragon for a door handle. Read_on (No Comments)

Čez Cesto

Smack bang next to the cathedral, this unpretentious spot, clearly pandering to the trade from the local market, rarely hears an English voice, making it well worth more investigation. Read_on (No Comments)

Cha

When it's all just to much, it's tempting to just plonk down and have a cuppa. That's exactly what Cha offers - a fine place to relax and watch the world hurry by, while you much around with teabags. Read_on (2 Comments)

Coffee Project

Hidden behind the popular stretch of Trubarjeva, this tiny and very new coffee shop has big ambitions. It serves Turkish brewed Read_on (No Comments)

Čolnarna

Čolnarna
Set near a lake in the southern part of Tivoli Park, this spacious café dates back some 120 years, and is a calm oasis only a few minutes' walk from the heart of the bustling city centre. Read_on (No Comments)

Corso Bar

Industrial overtones and a bunch of trendy young things behind the bar, heaps of arty people drinking coffee, wine and beer and the added bonus of outside seating. Read_on (No Comments)

Divine

A family-run pastry shop with nearly eight decades of experience, Divine recently underwent some extensive renovations, which Read_on (No Comments)

Drago F Tinta

Drago F Tinta
Named after the late Slovene-Chilean author, the cultural credentials of this riverside café are beyond reproach. In Read_on (1 Comment)

Dulcis Caffe

Dulcis Caffe
Located at the market (Tržnica) in the BTC shopping complex and styled after a classic French patisserie, Dulcis prepares some of the most delectable traditional sweets and home-baked goods around. Read_on (No Comments)

Grajska Kavarna

Swanky, cool and chic in equal measures, Ljubljana Castle’s very own café is housed inside a dismal-looking 1980s concrete monstrosity well overdue for a facelift. Read_on (No Comments)

KavaČaj Slamič

KavaČaj Slamič
Translating simply as CoffeeTea, the hugely popular café inside the Slamič B&B serves excellent coffee and a wide range of teas as well as cakes and puddings in abundance. Read_on (No Comments)

Kavarna in Slaščičarna Maxi

The café and pastry shop on the ground floor of the Maxi Market shopping centre is one of the more regal places in town to enjoy some coffee and cake. Read_on (No Comments)

Kavarna Maček

Reassuringly scruffy after so many good-looking places in the area, gurgle down some tea, coffee or something a little stronger Read_on (No Comments)

Kavarna Rog

Kavarna Rog
Kavarna Rog is one of our favourite cafés around - and not only because it's a 30 second walk from our flat. Located Read_on (No Comments)

Kavarna Tromostovje

Here near Plečnik's famed Tromostovje (Three Bridges), alongside the river, you can get a real feeling of the pulse of the city. Read_on (No Comments)

Kresnička

A spacious but quiet corner café popular with students and workers from the nearby university, it features a menu so full Read_on (No Comments)

Ledina Center

An interesting place to check out if you’re in the area, this Yugoslav-era time warp of a building contains a surprisingly large number of ordinarily invisible places in which to eat and drink. Read_on (No Comments)

Le Palais des Thés

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Le Petit Café

Le Petit Café
On a leafy yet bustling square, tables of bubbly locals and clued-up visitors drink coffee, tea and look utterly Parisian without even trying. Read_on (No Comments)

Lolita

Lolita
With absurdly high ceilings, exposed brick walls, great views through huge plate glass windows and super comfortable seating, Read_on (1 Comment)

Malina

Coffee, cakes, and delicious ice cream. You will not miss this place when walking by: the pink and orange chairs that from the al fresco part of this café can be spotted a mile away. Read_on (No Comments)

Mandolat

A cheap and cheerful canteen-style café aimed squarely at the student market, Mandolat comes with two individual areas and a pleasing outdoor terrace providing plenty of chances to mingle with the locals. Read_on (No Comments)

Metropol Caffe

A distinctly industrial feel with lots of absurd touches such as a ridiculous flashing robot and a glass-walled smoking room Read_on (No Comments)

Nebotičnik

After being shuttered for nearly a decade, the best views in the city are once again open to the public. Occupying the top floor Read_on (No Comments)

Okrepčevalnica Petkovšek

A really pleasant, quiet café by the water, this could be what the person who needs a little time with a book and a decent cup of coffee was looking for. Read_on (No Comments)

Pri Semaforju

Translating as ‘by the traffic lights’, be welcomed in several different languages on the fascias on entry, then choose to sit either upstairs or downstairs depending on what takes your fancy. Read_on (No Comments)

Rotonda Caffe

Located in and named for the bulging circular Rotonda building opposite the complex formerly known (but still commonly referred Read_on (No Comments)

SEM Kavarna

A trendy, industrial-look café attached to the Ethnographic Museum featuring a glass floor, lots of wacky art, coffee, cakes and booze. Read_on (No Comments)

Slaščičarna Pri Vodnjaku

Teddy bears, Cuban flags, accordions, cakes, ice-cream and lots of friendly people of all ages, some of them wearing funny hats. Read_on (No Comments)

STA Travel Café

STA Travel Café
Connected to the Ljubljana branch of STA travel via a doorway at the back, this centrally-located café is a popular destination in its own right - and it's not hard to see why. Read_on (No Comments)

Top Café

While this aptly named establishment makes no attempt to belie the fact that it's a club first and foremost, don't let that dissuade you from taking the glass elevator up to the roof during daylight hours. Read_on (No Comments)

Zvezda

Zvezda
A bustling café frequented by a battalion of clients from students to pearl-laden old ladies. Zvezda’s décor leans in the direction of your classic Buddha lounge, with a scattering of Oriental statues and some fine brown velvet wallpaper. Read_on (No Comments)

Čajnica Gallus

Although we've had dozens of coffees here, under pressure we'd have to admit that we don't really remember what the Read_on (No Comments)