6 cafés in 1 city. Places change: check opening hours before you go.
A café inside the City Hall whose walls carry around 700 photographs of Lviv since people learned to take them. The house 'Leopolis' cake must rest exactly 12 hours and each one is numbered in a register.
Order: Leopolis cake · coffee
💡 Climb the City Hall tower before or after; the tower ticket desk is in the same building.
Fewer recent sources for this one: check it's open before you go.
A playful café built on Lviv's coffee legend of Yuriy Kulchytsky, with a 'mine' in the cellars under Rynok Square. The building is the former Lubomirski Palace, from whose balcony the Act of Restoration of Ukrainian Statehood was proclaimed on 30 June 1941.
Order: cezve coffee in the courtyard · 'sealed' coffee finished with a caramel crust in the mine
💡 Go down to the cellar 'mine', where the sealed coffee is finished at your table.
Opened in 1999 to carry on the traditions of pre-war Lviv confectioneries. The cheesecake (syrnyk) is famous, made with homemade cheese supplied for years by the same women.
Order: Lviv syrnyk · coffee
💡 Go mid-afternoon for cake and coffee; the antique-filled rooms fill up on weekends.
A cult café on one of Lviv's oldest streets since 1979, once the haunt of hippies, artists and musicians. Coffee is still boiled in a cezve on heated quartz sand while you wait at the bar.
Order: cezve coffee on sand · coffee with the house liqueur
💡 Order at the bar and take your cup to the small terrace on Virmenska Street.
Born in Lviv in 2016 around its own roasting, Black Honey has grown from a single city-centre bar into a network of partner cafés. The flagship is in the old-town Kryva Lypa passage, and it ranked #40 in the World's 100 Best Coffee Shops Europe list.
Order: espresso · filter
💡 Kryva Lypa is a lively passage of bars off Doroshenka St; come in daytime for coffee.
A Lviv roaster with cafés on Rynok Square and Katedralna Square, importing green coffee directly from farms in partnership with Mare Terra.
Order: espresso · dessert
💡 The Katedralna Square shop also sells beans to take home.
Fewer recent sources for this one: check it's open before you go.