5 reasons to visit Kafe Radionica Krojačnica
- A story more than half a century old: a tailoring tradition since 1969 that did not end but changed shape.
- The only café in Banja Luka where you can watch leather goods being made by hand while you drink your coffee.
- An interior that is not staged: original craft details that were here before the café existed.
- A family story that continues, an authenticity you cannot buy or design.
- A Borik location with its own parking: a quiet address away from city traffic that rewards the trip.
Somewhere between sewing machines and a cup of coffee, between thread and kajmak, between a disappearing craft and visitors looking for something other than a typical café, you will find Kafe Radionica Krojačnica (“Workshop Tailor’s”) in Borik. It is a genuinely original address, unique in every detail inside.
The story begins in 1969, when Antonij Sevčuk, a skilled tailor who had honed his craft in the old Jewish workshop on Jevrejska street, opened the “Toni” tailor’s shop at Milana Karanovića 5. The clothes made in that workshop dressed respected citizens, officials and prominent figures of Banja Luka at the time. The craft was alive, the room breathed needles and tape measures, and the Sevčuk family built a reputation measured in decades.
When a tailor’s shop becomes a café but never stops being a tailor’s shop
What makes Kafe Radionica Krojačnica truly special is not that it opened in a former workshop, but that the workshop is still here. Radionica Sevčuk still works inside the café, making quality leather goods by hand and carrying the family craft into a new generation. A guest sitting with a coffee literally shares the room with a craft that lives beside them.
The interior is full of original tailoring details that are not decoration: they are objects that were here, had a purpose and still do. Old tools and pieces that speak of time and care for every stitch create an atmosphere that cannot be designed, only inherited.
Taste & Rate editors’ tip
Come without hurrying: Kafe Radionica Krojačnica is not a café you pass through but a place you enter intending to stay. Open every day from 07:00 to 24:00, Sundays from 08:00. Pet friendly, free Wi-Fi, own parking. Contact: 065 478 744 · krojacnica1969@gmail.com · Instagram: @krojacnica.1969
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