When in Göttingen, have cake at Cron & Lanz…read more Pick a slice from their beautiful ground floor display, take your ticket upstairs, sit yourself at a table in their elegant dining room, order a cup of freshly brewed coffee. Enjoy your beautiful cake with coffee (served with cream) and do some people watching. This is happy hour on a Göttinger Friday.

Their cakes and cookies are delicious. The displays are lovely. The only issue I have with this…read moreplace is that they are very rude. I've been there twice in a few years. Both times they act like they don't really want to sell items. Yesterday the woman said the credit card machine didn't work. "No Visa." I said I had a debit. "No!" I said I could use American Express. She said, no. At this point in time I was confused about if the machine work or not and I was confused about why they had a machine out for everyone to see if they didn't take cards. I was about to hand back the food when she relented "fine. You can use it if you spend 10 euros." There were no signs about this either.

The chocolates I tried were tasty, but a bit expensive. Small bags cost around 5 euros. I am not…read morereally sure that they are better than Ritter, but they make great gifts and you can buy Herrenhauser chocolates as souvenirs for people back home.