Coffee and Cake Kavana Centar

This is the Croatian kavana in its everyday form: coffee taken slowly, a cabinet of cakes and pastries, and a crowd that arrives before work rather than after a…This is the Croatian kavana in its everyday form: coffee taken slowly, a cabinet of cakes and pastries, and a crowd that arrives before work rather than after a museum. It sits in the streets on the mainland side, which keeps the prices and the atmosphere local.

Breakfast here means what it means to Zadar, which is coffee and something sweet rather than eggs and a plate. For a visitor the appeal is seeing how the city actually starts its day, ten minutes from the walls but a long way from the terraces that face the water.