Coffee shops in Sofia, Bulgaria

What is common for a typical citizen of Sofia is that coffee is not just favorite drink, but daily necessity. And not just the coffee, but the good coffee.

What we did is to make a comparison between three famous coffee shops which are more or less in the same format – Starbucks, Costa Cafe and Onda Coffee Brake. None of this chains is typical Bulgarian but all of them are quite popular there.

Starbucks

This coffee chain is available in Sofia from a couple of months only, but is already quite popular. We all know the coffee there, it is good, atmosphere is modern and dynamic. What we don’t like there is that when the cafe is full it looks too stuffed with people and becomes too noisy. Also, at Starbucks (in Sofia specifically) the sweets are not always the best quality.

Addresses:

• at the corner of the Vasil Levski Blvd and the Fritjof Nansen Street.

• at the corner of the Vasil Levski Blvd and the Gurko Blvd

Costa Cafe

This is the least explored one. The quality of the coffee is not as good as on Starbucks or Onda Coffee Brake, but is good enough. As it seems Costa Cafe is actually more specialized in hot chocolate. They have several types. The atmosphere is quite nice but again too stuffed sometimes. What is really original there is the cups they give for outside consumption. They are thick and it is not easy to get your fingers burned with them.

Addresses:

• City Center Sofia (Aresenalski blv.)
• Kniaz Alexander I street
• at the corner of Sheinovo street and Krakra street

Onda Coffee Brake

This is our favourite coffee chain. It seems to be available in Sofia only, and if you go there we advice you to visit it. The atmosphere is very good, even if the cafe is full with customers. They always play non-commercial music and have happy paintings on the walls. What is more, the quality of coffee there is best of all other mentioned chains. The sandwiches they bake at morning are with very good taste quality and the sweets are very nice.

Addresses:

• Tsar Osvoboditel blv. just opposite the Russian Chuch
• Business Park Sofia
• Mall of Sofia
• Stamboliiski blv.
  

Marks

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils. ~Henry Ward Beecher