PRIVATE TOUR LVIV
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Lviv is full of interesting coffee caves, let's find them!
Flexible start time
Duration is about 2 hours
Meeting point map
Every day exc. 25/12, 01/01
Coffees included
With a local caffiend
Photo #1: uncredited
TOUR OVERVIEW
Is it true that there are more coffee shops than pubs in Lviv? The answer is a resounding yes, and that's odd when one remembers that Lviv is the beer capital of Europe, if not the world.
The story of Lviv coffee has a somewhat stolen, or more rather manufactured history. Perhaps there's a reason why the deepest coffee cave in Lviv is called "Lviv Coffee Mining Manufacture".
Where did it all begin? The story isn't simple, quite the reverse in fact. No one really knows the truth, but does it really matter? We've heard a lot of tall tales, so here's our interpretation of what is known, unknown, and everything in between!
A Ukrainian Cossack from Lviv region, Yuri Kulczycki, was incarcerated in Turkey. While there, with plenty to think about, he devised a Viennese coffee house plan. "Under the Blue Bottle" opened in Vienna c. 1684.
The Viennese didn't trust Yuri's Turkish connections and they weren't keen on drinking the drink of the enemy either. However, Yuri earned their trust.
His coffee story is about Vienna and fighting Ottoman armies, but in an inevitably roundabout way, via a yarn about 300 bags of coffee and lashings of jiggery pokery, it has became enshrined in the murky history of Lviv.
We drink on both sides of our underground river Poltva without prejudice. Lviv old town is not where everything is, we have plenty of very explorable streets everywhere and on many of those, one can find at least an esoteric, perhaps even exotic coffee shop.
Coffee with roast eggs? Coffee on fire? You see, coffee in Lviv is quite the quagmire of olfactory overload. Ultimately, the joy of coffee tasting in Lviv is a celebration of all the senses.
Lviv Coffee Crawl stirs up addictive Lviv and is led by a local caffiend. We get to the bottom of the coffee story in Lviv!
✍ March 17th, 2026.