What is a wuzetka cake from Warsaw?

A wuzetka is a Warsaw cake of two cocoa sponge layers with jam and whipped cream, topped with a chocolate glaze that sets crisp. Its name most likely comes from the Trasa W-Z road. The cake dates from about 1949, the name from 1953, and it was added to Mazovia’s list of traditional products in May 2023.

Where can you buy pączki in Warsaw on Fat Thursday?

For 2026, Ciastko z Dziurką at Wilcza 26 made twelve pączek flavors, including matcha with blackcurrant and pistachio with apricot, and ran its Fat Thursday as a festival of several days. Tadam! at Szanajcy 11 in Praga made seven flavors; it also draws summer queues for jagodzianki.

How much does a jagodzianka cost in Warsaw?

In a July 2022 survey of Warsaw prices, a jagodzianka, a yeast bun filled with wild blueberries, cost 4.50 zł at a Społem shop in Praga-Południe and 5.70 zł at the Gromulski bakery. Cukiernia Stary Dom charged 14 zł, and Magda Gessler’s Słodki Słony 23 zł.

Bakery Cafés in Warsaw: Cukiernie, Pączki and Wuzetka

A cukiernia makes cakes and pastries, a piekarnia bakes bread, and in Warsaw plenty of both add an espresso machine and a few tables. The city’s own cake is the wuzetka: two layers of cocoa sponge with jam and whipped cream under a chocolate glaze that should set crisp.¹ Its name most likely comes from the Trasa W-Z, a Warsaw through-road. The cake dates from about 1949 and the name from 1953, and in May 2023 it joined Mazovia’s list of traditional products.¹

Mokotów has nearly a third of the city’s bakery cafés, with Wola, the Royal Route and Kamionek next. Their hours suit an afternoon slice more than an early breakfast: most open at 09:00 or 10:00, while Il Panificio on Żaryna, Kropka on Górnośląska and Żona Krawca on Podskarbińska start at 08:00.

Local tip: Jagodzianki arrive in July.⁴ Tadam! on Szanajcy opens only from Wednesday to Sunday, at 09:00, so plan a Praga visit for those days.

Where these cafés are: Mokotów (11), Wola (5), Nowy Świat & Krakowskie Przedmieście (4), Kamionek, Grochów & Gocław (4), Powiśle & Solec (3), Saska Kępa (2), Śródmieście Południowe (2), Śródmieście Północne (1), Muranów (1), Żoliborz (1), Praga-Północ (1), Włochy & Okęcie (1).

At a glance

36Cafés listed

34With opening hours

07:30Earliest opening

22:00Latest closing

Opens earliest: Miau Grau, from 07:30 (Mon–Fri 07:30–22:00 · Sat–Sun 09:00–22:00).

Closes latest: Canela Bakery, until 22:00 (Daily 09:00–22:00).

Most common features: outdoor seating (53%), wheelchair access (47%), partial wheelchair access (28%).

Pączki on Wilcza and Szanajcy

On tłusty czwartek, the doughnut day before Lent, the newer bakeries draw queues as well as the old names. For 2026, Ciastko z Dziurką at Wilcza 26 fried twelve flavors of pączek, and Tadam! at Szanajcy 11 in Praga seven.²

Ciastko z Dziurką stretches the day into a festival of several days, with fillings such as matcha with blackcurrant, passion fruit with cream and pistachio with apricot.³ Tadam!’s other long queues come in summer, for jagodzianki, yeast buns filled with wild blueberries.²

What a jagodzianka costs

Jagodzianki are a July bake.⁴ In a July 2022 survey of Warsaw prices, a jagodzianka cost 4.50 zł at a Społem shop in Praga-Południe, 5.70 zł at the Gromulski bakery, 14 zł at Cukiernia Stary Dom and 23 zł at Magda Gessler’s Słodki Słony.⁴ The filling is meant to reach the edges of the dough; whether the bun should be fluffy or thin is a matter of argument.⁴

Swedish buns and Italian pastries

Kaffe Bageri Stockholm at Nowolipki 13 in Muranów is a Swedish café built around fika, the coffee-and-bun break. Its bullar, sweet yeast buns scented with cinnamon and cardamom, are kneaded by hand every day and rolled in front of customers.⁵

La Bomboniera, at Aleja Solidarności 82 in Wola, opened in December 2014 on the model of southern Italian pastry shops, with every cake and biscuit made on site to traditional recipes; much of it is sold to take away.⁶ Kaiser Patisserie has two shops, at Chmielna 15 and Zajęcza 1A, and Il Panificio bakes in both Mokotów and Wola.

Cake with cats, games and late hours

Some bakery cafés double as something else. Miau Grau at Kolejowa 49A serves coffee and desserts in a room shared with resident cats, with a cupboard of board games such as Dixit and Azul.⁷ It opens at 07:30 on weekdays and closes at 22:00.

Canela Bakery at Chmielna 27/31 is open until 22:00 every day and has vegan options, and Stolica Cafe on Narbutta, with cakes and brunch, also serves until 22:00. In Kamionek, U Krawca Cafe at Siennicka 3 opens at 07:30 on weekdays,, and Żona Krawca on Podskarbińska stays open until 20:00 every day.

Bakery cafés and cukiernie in Warsaw

At a glance

BOZO

Cafe Przygoda Sala Zabaw Kawiarnia

Canela Bakery

Cukier do Kawy

Femme Fatale

Kaffee Bageri Stockholm

Kawiarnia Misianka

Kropka

La Bomboniera

Luka

Miau Grau

Milość Praga

Młynek

No i co

Roman Pomianowski i Syn

Stolica Cafe

Sweet Design

To My

U Krawca Cafe

Varsobagel

Żona Krawca

Ciastko z Dziurką

Cukiernia Truskawka

Eter

Ge Lato

Il Panificio

Kaiser Patisserie

Kaiser Patisserie

Malka

Miód Malina

Stary Dom

Tadam!

Chałka Kawiarnia Bistro

Il Panificio

Mazovia Patisserie

Kut

Pączki on Wilcza and Szanajcy

What a jagodzianka costs

Swedish buns and Italian pastries

Cake with cats, games and late hours

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