Pastiçeri Himara
The painted board of Kafe Pastiçeri Himara 1928 on its post above the water at Spile, pines in front of it and boats moored beyond

Spile · Himarë, Albania

Kafe Pastiçeri Himara 1928

A café and pastry counter on the seafront at Spile, in Himarë on the Albanian Riviera.

DirectionsOver the counter

Coffee, with the water in front of it

The front tables sit under umbrellas a few metres from the shingle, which is where a cappuccino and a glass of iced water land when you order one. The room behind is the indoor half of the same place — plaster walls, iron chairs, and a sailing ship worked in iron across one of them.

It is a café and a pastry counter at once, at the Spile end of the Himarë seafront, with the board on its post out over the water to tell you which one it is. The other places to eat first thing along the same front are listed in the Himarë breakfast round-up.

A cappuccino and a glass of iced water on a granite table at Kafe Pastiçeri Himara 1928, umbrellas up and the sea a few metres beyond
Coffee and water at a front table, the sea a few metres on

The counter

Coffee

Espresso and cappuccino, at the counter or out at a table on the front.

Pastries

Cornetti crowded on the baking tray, and sweets Albanian and Italian alike.

Ice cream

Scooped into a coupe in the room behind, and worked into the cakes the counter keeps cold.

Cornetti crowded on a metal baking tray at Kafe Pastiçeri Himara 1928
Cornetti, on the tray
An ice cream in a glass coupe in the room at Kafe Pastiçeri Himara 1928, wrought-iron chairs behind it and a wrought-iron sailing ship fixed to the plaster wall
The room behind, and the ship worked in iron on its wall

How it reads

Two platforms score it, on their own scales and under their own names.

Finding the board

It stands on the Spile seafront in Himarë, on the coast road through town. The board is the landmark — white above, red below, on a post above the water.

DirectionsWhere it is