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Opened a year ago, Divas is a refreshment on the Zagreb cafe scene. It has all a cozy, warm  and unique cafe needs to have – great coffee, good service, a great imaginative interior and a smoking section with awesome ventilation where you don’t feel like a quarantine disease patient secluded from the rest of the world. Oh, and not to forget the cake selection, which depending on the day can range from awesome to good . 

It is quite a small place that can feel cramped at times, due to its popularity, so seating might be hard to find but when you manage to grab that chair of yours, you will feel welcome to spend as much time as you need there. I’ve spent many a day working there since they have fast reliable wifi. 

But one of the tings that always keeps me interested is the decor – ever changing and interesting, there will always be a new detail you can inspect for a while and it doesn’t get boring as there’s so many details there it’s hard to notice them all in a few visits. Definitely a place to recommend for a coffee and chill. 

Zagreb has a few Japanese restaurants but I must admit that I haven’t visited them yet, due to their budget-non-friendly price lists. Because of that, I personally welcomed the idea of opening of this relatively small sushi take away bar where you can choose from different varieties of Japanese delicacies. Besides sushi, you can order sashimi, miso soup, spring rolls and such. Everything mentioned is made by Chefs right in front of you.

MANZOKU sushi bar is situated in the city’s Centre and it won’t take you long to grab a few bites in the middle of your tour de Zagreb. Their tastiness and lightness definitely serve the phrase “the more the merrier” – at least when it comes to indulging yourself with some food during nice city walks. After all, ‘manzoku’ supposedly means ‘pleasure’ in Japanese.

When I heard that there’s a new cookie place in town, the chocolate sugar addict in me was jumping from joy. Yes, I frequently complain about the lack of quality snacks in Zagreb to have along with your coffee, so this seemed to be the perfect place to enjoy a chat with a friend, a good cup of coffee and an amazing sugar rush along with it.

Having explored a bit more and finding out that the place was inspired by the original U.S. chocolate chip cookies (the owner spent his student years across the Atlantic indulging in cookies and becoming an expert in baking them) I decided even before trying any of the sweets that this place is sure to become one of my favorites.

My high expectations did come true in most aspects – the place is really cute, with a homey feel  to it, real great to chill out by yourself or in good company sharing a cookie, brownie, hot brownie with ice-cream, pumpkin pie, you name it. All of the ingredients are there. Though, one downside to it is that their coffee is not the best out there, but I am hoping that’s due to the fact they’re still new to the art of making coffee (after all, they have Lavazza and a good coffee machine) so I’ll definitely be coming back for some more sugar-indulging in the following cold winter months.

Zagreb has been known for pretty tasty pastries but if you looked for a cheese cake in a traditional patisserie a few years ago your search would be unsuccessful.

Citizens of Zagreb enriched their list of favourite pastries when the founder of the Café TORTE i to revealed her recipes to the public. After presenting her famous cheese cake, many pastry-chefs decided to put them on their menus and a cheese cake revolution began.

In a comfortable café that looks like a living room (with an exception of its outdoor space) and is supplied with newspapers and magazines, satisfying your taste buds is very easy thing to do. There are a few varieties of an original cheese cake – you may find the one with chocolate or different kinds of fruit, and lots of other lush cakes. Their names are interesting and creative, such as supercalifragilisticexpialidocious cake, for example.

Beside cakes, you can order muffins, brownies and different kinds of biscuits that go well with coffee, tea or home-made red prosecco wine.

The Café is situated in two locations, but the one closer to the main square is in the Kaptol Centre. Sometimes it is very crowded and the prices are more on the expensive side, but having a taste of those pastries could be exactly what you had in mind on a certain day.

Café Velvet was a former meeting point with a cult status. But several years ago it closed its doors, leaving Zagreb without one more bustling and colorful café. That is, until last year, when the new owners reopened it with a significant touch of an artsy flare. Now Velvet is constituted of a beautifully decorated café, where you can treat yourself with a tasty coffee, freshly made juices, toasts, cakes, pies and soups, and an art-gallery situated right next to the café.

Personally I find Velvet as one of the ideal places for a relaxing chit-chat with your friends. After a hard-day work, when all the lights in Velvet come up, having a pleasant conversation in a smoke-free environment and a nice cup of coffee with all those tasty delights on the menu feels right to me. Even if you don’t have a friend to keep you company, this place is relaxing enough for you to read newspapers or a book, watching locals and movie buffs from Cinema Tuškanac pass by.

Of course, if you are in a very chatty mood, you can make friends with the co-owner Saša Šekoranja, an acclaimed florist and artist, who is there very often. In fact, if one of the customers in some way inspires the artist, he will personally draw the costumer’s portrait and hang it on the wall along with the numerous pictures, mostly blank and waiting for future models.