Bäcker Wiedemann is a bakery café chain with over 30 locations in Germany. Located on the corner of Pariser Platz looking towards the Brandenburger Tor (Brandenburg Gate), they sell pastries, bread, drinks, and sandwiches.
Feedback first. We were initially attracted to the window display of sandwiches because we wanted to quick meal and they looked great. They do not to toast or warm-up sandwiches or pastries here. Overall, we liked the flavor the sandwiches, but the bread consistently through all through three sandwiches were somewhat stale. That's three kinds of bread of three types of sandwich (chicken, beef, and salami) that we had trouble chewing. I had the easiest time chewing through my salami sandwich, and even that involved me have to twist the sandwich as I ripped a bite off. This also became the first time I tried zwetschgenkuchen (German plum cake), which essentially felt like eating plum skins on a piece of slightly stale bread? I think I should have tried it somewhere else. Latte and cappuccino were pretty though.
We first noticed them when we saw people in the front using the bread to feed the pigeons, even guiding them to fly into their hands. So after full-on sprinting through how many blocks to make our scheduled visit to the Reichstagsgebäude (Reichstag Building) and reveling in the Brandenburger Tor afterward, we just wanted someplace to sit down, to get out of the rain and cold, and maybe a drink and rushed lunch. There was still a number of places we still needed to go so there was no time for a full-on lunch and so just drifted back towards that corner since we couldn't really see any other places.
Overall, it was a decent place to rest if you're just looking for a convenient, immediate place to stop and go or take shelter in. There wasn't anybody else there at the time, so we had plenty of room to put our set things to the side without getting in anybody's way. The Starbucks next door sells a lot of the same things and then some (coffee, sandwiches, and cakes), so you could go there as well. However, I would also recommend trying Adlon To Go, a small, fancier coffee shop ALSO selling the same kinds of items that are almost directly across the square from Bäcker Wiedemann. read more