The best pastry shops Croatia

Founded in 1977, the famous patissier is a blend of Viennese and southern influences. It's a Zagreb institution that locals love and tourists love to discover! The house offers a wide selection of ice creams, tarts, cakes, such as Zagrebaske kremšnite or strudel, cookies, crunchies and chocolates of course. Eat on the terrace or take away to enjoy while visiting Zagreb, relaxing in a park or staying in a hotel... Ankica and Stjepan Vincek have opened six stores in Zagreb.

The master pastry chef-chocolatier offers a wide range of cocoa desserts, cakes, cheesecakes and sponge cakes, tarts, gourmet coffees with mignardises as well as ice creams with multiple flavours or elaborate verrines. Such a vast and tempting choice that one does not know what to choose... Also offers lunch and dinner with Italian dishes just as well cooked as the sweet part. Its motto, to give "sweetness in the heart of Zagreb". Good welcome in a comfortable and bright setting, impeccable service.

In this pastry shop(slastičarnica), better known by the locals as Kirigin, there is a queue! Here, tradition endures. All the cakes are baked in the brick oven, the same one since the opening of the house, more than seventy years ago! There are dozens of original cakes to choose from, the pinca, which is eaten at Easter, the rafioli, a traditional cake from the region, the mandolat with almonds and chocolate, the preznik, filled with nuts and candied fruit with rum and lemon peel, the apple strudel, etc. On the spot or to take away.

Certainly, the most famous pastry shop on the island, the one where people queue up for the cakes of the house Smiljana Matijaca. In the front of the shop, you will be tempted by the famous Cukarin, Klašun, Amareta, Marko Polo bombica. Harubica with carob seed, a natural supplement that is used in many cakes in Croatia. You will also find other gourmet products to treat yourself to, such as Ston salt scented with lavender, Dalmatian herb tea, homemade jams, Pelješac wines...

In the Pupo konoba, if the fisherman's kitchen plays an important role, the pastry shop is not left out. In fact, people come here for the sweet breakfast with freshly squeezed fruit juices, for the Italian dishes or the platter of cold cuts and cheese at aperitif time. But it is above all the master pastry chef who delights. The family tradition has kept the taste of old recipes, chocolate cakes with carob, dried fruits, mousses and citrus marmalades, for the arancini and other cheesecakes and carrot cakes that are in demand.