Its founders opened Błysk Espresso Bar in Żoliborz in 2022, after more than a decade of working with coffee, to run a place where specialty coffee and hospitality matter equally.
Michał Ciupiński is the 2026 Polish Barista Champion, and the bar holds the Polish Coffee in Good Spirits title for 2025 and 2026, after third place in the national barista championship in 2023 and second in 2024 and 2025.
Under the Kawexpol name, the founders teach in their workshop at the same address: sensory, brewing, barista and latte art courses for groups of up to three, and individual programmes tailored to the student. The sensory course works with the SCA’s evaluation sheets for aroma, taste, flavour, body and aftertaste.
Guest baristas take over the bar in the Brewing With The Stars series, whose third season ended in September 2026; Maksym Volkovytskyi of Klaro was among the guests.
Photograph: Błysk Espresso Bar