Whether you or your children have a sweet tooth, Zagreb is a perfect place to get some pleasure out of your cravings for sweet. Patisseries and occasional coffee shops offering snacks or pastries are a good choice as it is rather difficult to find a non-smoking place in Zagreb, though this fact may be changing lately.

However, one of the great places to have coffee is Trocadero. It fits all the requirements a tired parent might have: it’s a non-smoking cafe bar with friendly and patient waiters next to a big playground in a closed-off backyard in Dalmatinska Street. As summer approaches, kids can enjoy scoops of ice-cream at the bar's terrace. Little bit further form the city center, but a good idea to visit is one of the three Egoist Bars, situated in Cvjetno Naselje (Veslačka 17) and grab a waffle or something else and all that in non-smoking ambience.
On the other hand, if you want to indulge in something sweet without feeling guilty, enjoy a vegan ice creams in a industrial edgy interior of the patisserie Chocolat 041 in Masarykova Street. The legend goes chocolate flavour is the best, but all the flavours are designed by a very experienced Italian chef. Millenium, another place of similar temptation, offering only regular ice cream displayed in huge multi colored clouds, definitely worth tasting. Take a seat, either inside on the first floor that is rather comfortable for mums with kids or outside in Bogovićeva Street, where it is interesting to watch people go by, the street always being busy with people.