8. Café Botanica

Café Botanica is just off the Rynek Glowny, right beside many tourist attractions. However, the café itself is not a tourist trap. When you enter the first thing you see is a big steal tree stretching its branches up towards the ceiling. Green details and plants try to create a botanical feeling with wooden tables to match the atmosphere.
The place is quite big with three rooms, however only one is non-smoking. If you are sensitive to smoke, this might not be the best place since the smell is to some extent present even in the non-smoking room. If you love a cigarette with your coffee - this is the place to be.

On a Saturday, around 18:30 pm, there is clearly an after work-feeling with coffees and glasses of wine or beer on the tables. Even if it is so close to Rynek Glowny, the crowd consists mainly of Polish locals.

However, in our opinion, the place is a little bit too cold and sterile - the "botanical" details are too few to make the impression of being in a garden or green house, as you might picture it from the name. Overall, it is a place to stop by if you need a quick rest when going sightseeing around the Rynek Glowny or for an after work drink with friends, but it is not a place for relaxing, long coffee meetings. To our taste, it is not a place to go if you want a good quality coffee.

Coffee index: 8 pln

Wifi available.

www.cafebotanica.pl