Posts Tagged ‘Cafe’
Lina Rothenberger Feine Kost und Lebensmittel
Peggy Schatz is impressed by a homey Schöneberg deli and cafe... “Feine kost is a German wordplay that means great food, but sounds a bit like gourmet food," says Kirstin Keitel. "For me, great food is about natural, down-to-earth ingredients. An apple from my garden can be just as delicious as anything else…” Lina Rothenberger was the name of Kirstin's grandmother and a self-sufficient farmer from southern Germany. She has posthumously lent her name to this small, friendly [...]
Zeit für Brot
Aarti Mehta-Kroll visits a Mitte bakery that has quality goods and a social conscience... My first visit to Zeit für Brot was on a cool and sunny Wednesday afternoon. As I strolled from Rosa Luxemburg Platz along Alte Schönhauser Strasse, I immediately noticed the long wooden tables placed outside the bakery/café beneath dark awnings. What a nice opportunity to people-watch while enjoying a coffee, I thought to myself. The first thing I noticed upon entering the café were [...]
Five Elephant
Natalie Holmes drops in to her neighbourhood cafe to find out what all the fuss is about... I walk through the door of Five Elephant exactly one year after it opened - but there appears to be no time for birthday celebrations. Out front, customers mill about or sit absorbed in laptop land. Just beyond them, a roasting machine is working its magic, surrounded by a crew of human assistants overseen by co-owner Kris. In the background, Kris' partner Sophie prepares a generous batch of [...]
Sing Blackbird
Tam Eastley profiles vegan-vintage concept store and cafe, Sing Blackbird... It's no secret that finding a job in Berlin isn't easy. With the highest unemployment rate in all Germany (12.7% compared to a 6.5% national average), Germans and ex-pats alike need to be increasingly creative when it comes to finding a job, or find themselves forced to leave and look elsewhere. While this can be a struggle and a stress, it also accounts for the abundance of small, creative businesses here in the [...]
Memory Vintage (Shop & Café)
Carlijn Potma delves deep into Berlin's Memory Vintage shop & cafe... Everytime I cycle down Schwedter Strasse there is one special place I can’t bear to ride past. Located nearby the busy Schönhauser Allee, Memory Vintage - a curious shop brimmed with things we deem call ‘retro’ - just keeps on luring me in with its nostalgic atmosphere that transports me into the past. Memory is not only a store - the eponymous café next door is part of the business, run by [...]
Anna Blume
Where flowers, cakes and poetry mingle harmoniously... Berliners love their bounteous breakfasts as much as their afternoon Kaffee und Kuchen - and any establishment that can offer both is justly venerated. So it is with Anna Blume, a Prenzlauer Berg institution that manages to combine a florist, bakery and cafe with impressive fluidity. Interior designer Thomas Seiffert has made good use of the fact the venue was named after a 1919 Kurt Schwitters poem: lines from the surrealist [...]
Mein Haus am See
An imaginative new Mitte café-bar with a homey feel and lots of great furniture to lounge on… Contrary to its name, Mein Haus am See is neither a house, nor on the sea. It’s a former bookshop and warehouse space located just off busy Rosenthaler Strasse in Mitte - about as far from the seaside as you can get – that's been renovated into a funky new bar and café. But this is Berlin, where fantasy reigns and one person's innercity hangout can easily be another's beach-side dream. [...]
To Rococo Rot
Paul Sullivan chats to Berlin-based electronica mavericks Robert and Ronald Lippok, aka To Rococo Rot... “This was where the main bohemian scene used to be,” states Ronald Lippok, gesturing out of a large café window in the general direction of Kastanienallee. “When we were younger, playing in punk-rock bands, all the rehearsal spaces were around Schoenhauser Allee and here in Zionskirchplatz. This was the centre of the art scene in the 80s. Places like the Wiener café and the [...]
Bauhaus Archive & Museum
Berlin’s Bauhaus museum offers a comprehensive overview of Germany’s most famous design movement... Joost Schmidt, Poster for Bauhaus Exhibition, Weimar 1923 (Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin/ Foto: Markus Hawlik© VG Bild-Kunst Bonn) Though short lived, Germany's Bauhaus design school went on to become one of the 20th century’s most influential and pervasive movements. Almost every major European and American city features some example of the Bauhaus style, whether one of the school's linear, [...]
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, [...]
