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Pre-war Stary Mokotów around Narbutta, the Pole Mokotowskie park, Pożyteczna on Niepodległości and office cafés in Służewiec.
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Mokotów is a large district south of the center, 35.42 km² with about 218,000 residents in 2019. The village of Mokotowo first appears in documents in 1367, and it became part of Warsaw in 1916.1 Most of its buildings survived the war, so the modernist blocks of the 1930s still stand, and Stary Mokotów is among the most expensive places to live in the city.1
Cafés are spread across a big area, so pick a part: Stary Mokotów around Narbutta and Dąbrowskiego, Puławska as the main spine, and the office district of Służewiec to the south-west. Mokotów has more cafés with terraces than any other part of Warsaw, and more bakery cafés.
Local tip: Several Mokotów cafés keep weekday-only hours: Filiżanka Cafe on Cybernetyki and Redakcyjna at Czerska 8/10 open Monday to Friday only, Redakcyjna from 07:30.
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Narbutta is the café street of Stary Mokotów. Czuła Buła at no. 16 opens at 08:00 on weekdays, Muus at 27A has Wi-Fi and is open daily 08:00–20:00, and Pan od Kawy at 1A sells coffee from Tuesday to Saturday.
Stolica Cafe at Narbutta 50A shares its address with Iluzjon, the National Film Archive's art-house cinema, which moved into the former Stolica cinema in 1997 and reopened there after renovation in November 2012.2 The café is open daily 09:00–22:00, with vegan dishes and brunch.
Pole Mokotowskie, the 73-hectare park between Mokotów and the center, was Warsaw's airport until 1934, and horse races were run there from 1884 to 1939. The National Library stands inside it.3 Polish Radio and Television, the SGH Warsaw School of Economics and the Królikarnia Palace are also in Mokotów.1
On Dąbrowskiego, Ciacho Cafe at no. 2 and Dobroczynna at no. 30 have terraces, and Big Book Cafe at no. 81 opens at 09:00 from Monday to Saturday. P'Latte at Magazynowa 9 opens at 07:00 on weekdays, the earliest start in the district.
Klubokawiarnia Pożyteczna, at Aleja Niepodległości 135, describes itself as a quiet room where you can read on a sofa among books, study or work, play board games or chess, and bring children.4 Cakes are baked on site, with plum cake as the house specialty, and the kitchen serves pierogi and vegan dishes; espresso comes with a glass of cold mountain water.4 It is open daily 10:00–19:00.
Klubokawiarnia Skład Ziół is at Czerniakowska 26. Further south, Kult at Belwederska 44 opens at 08:00 from Tuesday to Friday, and Kultura Kawy has cafés at Kazimierzowska 51 and Czerniakowska 87A.
Służewiec Przemysłowy was laid out as an industrial district in 1951, became Poland's largest financial district, a title it held until 2019, and is nicknamed Mordor, after Tolkien. In 2015 an estimated 80,000 to 100,000 people commuted there, against about 15,000 residents.5 The Służewiec racecourse at Puławska 266 opened in 1939 as the largest and most modern horse-racing venue in Europe.5
Its cafés keep office hours. Filiżanka Cafe at Cybernetyki 4A serves 09:00–17:00 on weekdays only, dżezva at Postępu 12C opens at 08:00, and Calimero at Konstruktorska 7 is a specialty bar open daily. Culture Cafe at Postępu 27 stays open until 22:00. On Puławska, Najmniejsza Kawiarnia w Polsce (the smallest café in Poland) at no. 11 sells takeaway from 08:00 on weekdays.







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Klubokawiarnia Pożyteczna is a club-café at Aleja Niepodległości 135 in Mokotów, open daily 10:00–19:00. It describes itself as a quiet place to read, study or work, play board games or chess, and bring children. Cakes are baked on site, plum cake is the house specialty, and espresso comes with a glass of cold mountain water.
Stary Mokotów's café street is Narbutta: Czuła Buła at no. 16, Muus at 27A, Pan od Kawy at 1A and Stolica Cafe at 50A, which shares its address with the Iluzjon cinema. On Dąbrowskiego are Ciacho Cafe, Dobroczynna and Big Book Cafe. P'Latte at Magazynowa 9 opens at 07:00 on weekdays.
Służewiec's cafés keep office hours. Filiżanka Cafe at Cybernetyki 4A opens 09:00–17:00 on weekdays only, dżezva at Postępu 12C opens at 08:00, and Calimero at Konstruktorska 7 is a specialty bar open daily. Culture Cafe at Postępu 27 stays open until 22:00.
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