Specialty coffee in Kraków

Rakowicka and Lubicz, east of the station

Grzegórzki & Wesoła has the largest group of specialty cafés, most of them on or near Rakowicka and Lubicz, east of the main railway station. Wesoła Cafe at Rakowicka 17 says it has poured coffee from specialty-grade beans since 2014.⁴ In 2018 its four coffees came from two roasters, Roastains of Kraków and Coffee Republic of Warsaw.²

Blossom Coffee & Food, about 270 m away at Rakowicka 20, serves speciality coffee and tea, works with a Kraków palarnia (roastery) and bakes bagels on site to its own recipe.⁵ Weekday hours run to 19:00, weekends to 16:00. Individual at Lubicz 17A calls itself a specialty coffee bar with homemade cakes.⁹ Auro Café at Radziwiłłowska 33 works with specialty beans and favors local roasters; it opens 08:00–20:00 on weekdays.⁶ Riverside Specialty Coffee is further east, at Grzegórzecka 73B.

Kazimierz: a roastery bar and a guitar shop

Karma Coffee Roasters gives its roastery address as Świętego Wawrzyńca 9 in Kazimierz, separate from the Karma café on Krupnicza.³ The Wawrzyńca bar opens only on Saturdays and Sundays, 10:00–17:00, with a few tables outside.

String Taste Coffee at Bożego Ciała 10 combines a café with a guitar shop.⁷ It roasts its espresso beans at Tens Coffee Roasters, its own roastery, and sets an SCA cupping score of 82 as the floor for every coffee.⁷ Filter coffee rotates through outside roasters including DAK, Morgon and Nomad, and the bar opens 08:00–19:00 on weekdays and 08:00–18:00 at weekends.⁷

Old Town, Dębniki and the AGH campus

Inside the Old Town, The People Specialty Coffee faces plac Wszystkich Świętych from No. 8 and opens 08:00–19:00 on weekdays and 09:00–19:00 at weekends. Yellow Monkey is at Świętej Gertrudy 17.

West of the Vistula, Boby Specialty Coffee at Konfederacka 27 in Dębniki serves on weekdays, 09:00–17:00. BRIO Coffee & Pastries sits at Czarnowiejska 84 near AGH University, brewing specialty coffee with an espresso from Hayb, a Polish roaster, and selling beans for home brewing.⁸

What a flat white costs in 2026

String Taste’s menu in October 2026 priced an espresso at 14 zł, a flat white or cappuccino at 16 zł and a latte at 17 zł.⁷ A 200 ml batch brew cost 15 zł and a Chemex for two 35 zł.⁷ In 2018 a visiting London blogger found it hard to pay more than 12 zł for a coffee in Kraków.²

Filter first, espresso second

Kraków’s specialty bars have long leaned toward filter coffee. In 2018 AeroPress, Chemex, V60, Kalita Wave and siphon brewing were common, espresso menus were shorter, and asking for a cortado or a piccolo generally drew a negative response.² In 2016 Karma’s favorite methods were AeroPress, V60 and Kalita Wave.¹