Spile · Himarë, Albania

The counter

A café and a pastry counter in one room, with tables out on the front.

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

Sweets, Albanian and Italian

The sweets run to both, which is the pair the listings and the counter's own account of itself agree on. No card is printed, in the room or online.

  • Albanian
  • Italian
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

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