Komiteti Kafe Muzeum

Half-bar, half-museum, this raki-focused café in Blloku is crammed with communist-era memorabilia. The drinks list is one of the longest raki menus in the country — flavoured with mulberry, fig, walnut, plum — and the food is a short, well-judged list of small Albanian plates.

The place is busy from early evening; come early if you want a table inside among the propaganda posters. The garden out the back is the better option in summer.

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Almost every object on the walls is a real artefact from the Hoxha era — radios, posters, military caps, propaganda books, a working television tuned to old Albanian newsreels. The owners began collecting them in the late 1990s and decided to open the bar when their flat ran out of space.

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