

☕ Café
Smart Cup
- Today
- 07:00–15:00Open · until 15:00
- Price
- €€€€Moderate
- Google rating
- 4.8(144)out of 5 on Google
- Area
- Centru
About the place
Smart Cup is a café in Centre. The address is Strada Popa Șapcă 14, 200416 Craiova. It is roughly a 5-minute walk from Craiova Administrative Palace.
It opens every day of the week and shuts early, in the afternoon and it opens early in the morning. Across the week it opens as early as 07:00 and closes as late as 16:00. Its Google score is 4.8 out of 5, gathered from 144 reviews — a modest number of reviews.
Within walking distance: Romanian Opera Craiova (next door), Sawei Urban Hotel (2 min) and Restaurant Casa Ghincea (3 min). If it is full or shut, the closest alternatives of the same kind are BIGOS Cafe & Lounge (1 min) and Gelateria Artizanala Alexandra (2 min). See also Centre or the other cafés and patisseries.

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Frequently asked
What are the opening hours at Smart Cup?
The hours published on Google are: Monday: 07:00–15:00; Tuesday: 07:00–15:00; Wednesday: 07:00–15:00; Thursday: 07:00–15:00; Friday: 07:00–15:00; Saturday: 10:00–16:00; Sunday: 10:00–16:00. Check the venue's own site before a special trip — holiday and seasonal hours often differ.
Where is Smart Cup?
The address is Strada Popa Șapcă 14, 200416 Craiova, in Centru.
What should I order at Smart Cup?
If it is a specialty café, ask for a filter or a flat white from beans roasted in-house or by a Romanian roaster — Craiova has a few good ones, kept going by the student crowd in the centre.
Is Smart Cup worth visiting?
It holds 4.8 out of 5 from 144 Google reviews — a strong score for a café around Craiova. Treat the rating as a starting point, not a verdict, and read a few recent reviews too.











