Stopped at this corner cafe today and really liked it.
OBJECTIVE:
About 10 hot items to choose from for breakfast or lunch, plus the usual suspects like muesli, pastries, breads, cakes, sandwiches, desserts. Hot and cold drinks, juices, wine. They also sell bags of coffee beans, geroestet in Berlin.
Order at the table for takeout, sit down for table service. The gracious servers, dressed in black, brought a glass of water along with my meal!!
Note: I asked, and this is *not* the same Kaffee Bar as in Kreuzberg; that one is "Kaffeebar Berlin" and this is "Kaffee.Bar" in Prenzlauer Berg.
SUBJECTIVE:
The ambience is relaxed and friendly; the place is clean and bright (no dirty tables, no cracks in vinyl seats). The noise level is just right: loud enough to feel alive and friendly, not loud enough to be annoying.
Customers are doing a variety of things: conversing, computing, reading books, studying, working on whatever. I hear a baby in the back making the occasional cute squawk (I haven't seen the little darling yet). At some places in Berlin I haven't felt comfortable taking out a laptop, especially if there's a "No laptops" sign or a menu notice such as "Please no laptop computers when we are busy - this is not an office!" Enough space between tables to move freely without apologizing to other customers for putting your behind in their face -- feels a little more peaceful and free here.
Most of the vertical space consists of windows or bricks; the back wall is blank white and could use some funky art. read more