‘Shopping’ Archives
Knilchbar
The latest venue in Berlin's burgeoning kindercafe scene, Knilchbar ups the game with some serious designer credentials... The last couple of years have seen Kindercafes spring up all over Berlin, catering to an increasing demand from young (and young-ish) parents for a combination of funky, 'adult style' cafes and indoor children's play areas. One of the most recent openings is Knilchbar, near Friedrichshain’s buzzing Boxhagener Platz. Run by friendly young couple Annika and Daniel, [...]
Kollwitzplatz Farmers Market
A popular weekly farmers market in Prenzlauer Berg's pretty Kollwitzplatz Kollwitzplatz is today one of Prenzlauer Berg’s best-known and (arguably) most attractive squares. Named after the famed artist Käthe Kollwitz, whose work reveals it to have once been home to the city’s impoverished and downtrodden, it was one of the first areas to be gentrified when the Wall fell in 1989. You’d never guess at the area's working class roots as you stroll around the leafy, cobbled streets [...]
Sgaminegg
A neighbourhood café with a naturally slow vibe and fantastic home made lunches... There’s something immediately agreeable about Sgaminegg, an unassuming sanctuary of Slow located a few minutes stroll from Schoenhauser Allee’s bustling U-Bahn station. Maybe it’s the way the light floats gently through the two large windows, bouncing off the large floor and splashing across the simple green tables. Perhaps it’s the liminal hum of alternative music, always set at just the right [...]
Goldhahn & Sampson
Slow Food deli raises the bar in Helmholtzplatz... Goldhahn & Sampson is a deli-cum-Slow Food haven located on the Dunckerstr. side of Helmholtzplatz in Prenzlauer Berg. Run by the amiable Sascha and Andreas, this Aladdin’s cave for Foodies offers everything from “slow and conventional food: far flung and local, fancy bling as well as down-to-earthness”. That means you get champagne as well as bratwurst, luxury Sake alongside organic lentils and esoteric Caribbean spices as well as [...]
