This might just be the quintessential Wrocław café. Search for it (which you must, it is well-disguised) near the Church of the Holy Cross on Ostrów Tumski, and enter a world of marbled floors, tiny little tables, period lamps, and the dreamiest apple pie with raspberry sauce in Poland. Popular with ladies of a certain age who have little to do except visit cafes and eat what they would call ‘naughty’ cakes, it's nonetheless one of our favourite places in Wrocław.
I stayed in the Hotel Jana Pawla II near this cafe on my last night and the cafe there is maybe the sister cafe to here. The menu was the same and the name "Cafeteria Chic" was on the napkins. Sitting on the deck at the hotel version of this cafe was much better than the crowded cafe. I had the apple pie with raspberry sauce and it was pretty amazing. Just walk around the corner from Cafeteria Chic if it is too crowded and head into the Hotel Jana Pawla (sp?) if you want the same food in a quieter atmosphere. The inside cafe is also nice. The apple pie was better than the cheesecake which was also good.
26.07.2009
Keith
I am 50-50 on this place. My tea was served with a hot pot of water and a Lipton tea bag still in its paper on the side. Not exactly a great pot of tea. The atmosphere is really cool but the place was full of old people when I was there. I think that they went there after church maybe? Old people gorging themselves on cheescake is kind of gross to look at. The cheese cake was delicious though. The previous customers left some on the floor under my chair for me to step in and then splattered brown sauce on my table cloth. NOT exactly a fancy place. But worth a look inside because it is nice once you look beyond the food stains on the marbled floors in this "quintessential Wroclaw cafe."
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Keith
I stayed in the Hotel Jana Pawla II near this cafe on my last night and the cafe there is maybe the sister cafe to here. The menu was the same and the name "Cafeteria Chic" was on the napkins. Sitting on the deck at the hotel version of this cafe was much better than the crowded cafe. I had the apple pie with raspberry sauce and it was pretty amazing. Just walk around the corner from Cafeteria Chic if it is too crowded and head into the Hotel Jana Pawla (sp?) if you want the same food in a quieter atmosphere. The inside cafe is also nice. The apple pie was better than the cheesecake which was also good.
Keith
I am 50-50 on this place. My tea was served with a hot pot of water and a Lipton tea bag still in its paper on the side. Not exactly a great pot of tea. The atmosphere is really cool but the place was full of old people when I was there. I think that they went there after church maybe? Old people gorging themselves on cheescake is kind of gross to look at. The cheese cake was delicious though. The previous customers left some on the floor under my chair for me to step in and then splattered brown sauce on my table cloth. NOT exactly a fancy place. But worth a look inside because it is nice once you look beyond the food stains on the marbled floors in this "quintessential Wroclaw cafe."