Feb 1, 2025

Beans & Dots Bucharest

Have your coffee at Universul Palace

""Beans & Dots" is a really special coffee shop that's in the building that used to host the newspaper Universul. Lovely for my lazy mornings..."

Near Cișmigiu Garden, in central Bucharest, you can find a really special coffee shop, called Beans & Dots. The building that hosts this spot used to be the editorial office of the newspaper Universul during the first part of the 20th century. Today, Beans & Dots brings together students, freelancers, artists and people from the neighborhood, all looking for a good cup of coffee, some fresh snacks and a nice talk.

I love having my lazy morning coffee here on weekends and then paying a little visit to Humanitas Cișmigiu bookstore, which is nearby. Universul Palace also hosts a theater, two bars, some artistic studios and an advertising agency - all these places give a creative vibe to the building.

During summer, they have a different menu with delicious cold brews, and they open the terrace. No matter what season it is, I recommend this place if you are looking for tasty coffee and an urban-industrial place with a contemporary atmosphere.

Beans & Dots 2 can be found at One Herăstrău Plaza, Sos. Pipera 4, where you can have breakfast and coffee all day long. And recently Beans & Dots 3 has been launched at  MARe - Museum of Recent Art.

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Strada Ion Brezoianu 23-25

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