ŠPICA CAFFE | kaval Group — Restaurant in Upravna Enota Ljubljana

Coffee: Amazing. Ambience: 10/10. Staff: Bless their hearts, but… yikes.

This place could be perfect. The coffee is genuinely top-notch, and the vibe? Pure heaven. Think cozy, relaxed, the kind of spot where you just want to melt into your chair and forget the world exists.

But then… you try to interact with the staff.

Ordering takes forever — like “age another year while they notice you” forever. Miraculously, your drink will arrive on time (shocking, I know). But when it’s time to pay? Forget it. You’ll spend more time waiting to settle the bill than you did enjoying your actual drink. I basically had a full existential crisis just standing there, card in hand.

It’s a classic love-hate experience: you get lulled into bliss with a great coffee, only to be slapped back to reality with service straight out of a sitcom about how not to run a café.

Bonus points for the park and playground right outside — parents, this is your safe haven. Your kids can run wild and no one will glare at you like you’ve released a pack of demons. Quite the opposite — people smile, probably because they know those little monsters will one day pay their pensions.

So yeah. Half dreamy, half chaotic. Would I come back? Yes. Would I emotionally prepare myself for the payment...

Capitalist scum. If you don't sit down, you're not allowed to get a glass of water for free. You have to buy water or else! We came to the bar, wanted to buy drinks and sit on the side of the river. We ordered a coffee, one draft beer, one beer in a can and a glass of water. They explained that we can either buy water in a plastic bottle or get a glass and drink it there. My friend got a glass of water and tried to pour it in the plastic cup she got next to her canned beer. The waitress pulled the cup from under her and rather saw the water spill all over the bar than let us take it away. Her action was accompanied by the following words: Madam, you have been warned! So, warning to everyone, do not try to take water away from the bar, they would rather see it wasted of spilled al over their equipment than let you take it away for free. Footnote: the Slovenian constitution demands free drinkable water...

I confirm what the other reviewers have said: the guy at the counter was not very friendly. He acted towards me as if coming there was my privilege. Some other waiters were better, though.

Canned and bottled soft drinks cost from around 4 EUR onwards (for example, a small bottle or a can of coke), which is something I didn’t experience even in London or Dubai.

Lastly, this place is hilariously pretentious, for a little corner in a little city. They play this lame club music (house? techno?) which amplifies the pretentious...