This is a charming little café in the Dutch Quarter of Potsdam. The food is nice and the location…read moreis pretty, but our experience was completely ruined by the tall blonde waitress, who was obviously in a bad mood and was so rude and aggressive that in all of my 9 years living in Berlin I had not encountered. We politely asked (in proper German) if we could move to an empty and non-reserved table closer to the open window, she rolled her eyes at me and shouted that no. Without any reason. Then she messed up an order and shouted at us when we requested to return one dish, more eye rolling and aggressive attitude. All in all, it created a very unpleasant atmosphere and ruined our afternoon. Honestly, never again.

The food was nice but the service was very bad. The tall blonde waitress was simply rude, the…read moreothers were nice. She had a bad attitude with almost all the customers. We asked to switch tables to sit next to the window and she refused it because we would have to put two tables together. Its not a problem if you dont want to do it, but you dont have to make faces while you are telling people no. They also made a mistake with our order and was rolling her eyes when she came to pick the food from the table. I dont know if she was having a bad day or is just in general a rude person but she ruined the experience.

I was pleasantly surprised by Cafe Extrablatt! It looks like a tourist trap, and while it…read moredefinitely caters toward tourists, I quite enjoyed the food, beer, service, and outside seating. My friend and I took a day trip to Potsdam and stoped by Extrablatt for lunch before going to Sansoucci. We asked to sit outside to enjoy the sunny day and were seated immediately. We were a bit surprised at the number of menus (3-4 on the table) and had plenty of food options to choose from! I ended up ordering the Italian currywurst, mostly out of curiosity, and thoroughly enjoyed the twist on a classic German dish. As I don't particularly enjoy beer, I decided to try a fruit beer, which was much more to my taste. The only downside to my experience was the smokers sitting upwind of us, but I suppose that's inevitable in Europe.

Came during springtime and was pleased with the outdoor seating available on the street. Enjoyed a…read morequiet meal with a couple of drinks. Semi touristy with the menu available in both German and English. The German menu had thorough explanations of the meals.

This little hidden place is awesome. The owners were cheerful and accommodating. Food was beyond…read moredelicious.

From the owner: A Slice of Britain ist mehr als nur irgendein Café: Es ist ein Ort des Wohlfühlens und Willkommen…read moreseins - Euer zweites Wohnzimmer - in einen der vielen gemütlichen Höfe der Potsdamer Innenstadt, umgeben von historischen Gebäuden . Hier könnt ihr eure Seele baumeln und euch neu inspirieren lassen. Breakfast, Brunch, Lunch - ganz gleich wann Ihr kommt, Frühstück gibt es den ganzen Tag!

A really nice bakery and cafe in Potsdam. If you are looking for a coffee or breakfast before 9am…read moreyour choices are to find one of the bakeries in town and this is a great place to stop. They have a wide variety of organic bread, sandwiches and cakes. The stuff tastes great and the ladies behind the counter and very friendly and helpful. For under €5 you can have a coffee and a sandwich which is great for an organic bakery. I would happily come here anyday and get some bread or sandwiches. The coffee is of good quality and tastes great. There are plenty of other choices and I believe they have outdoor seating as well.

Although the bread and treats may look good from the window, BEWARE! We were served MOLDY coconut…read moremacaroons from this shop. They came in a plastic cup, and after eating a few, I noticed they had a very strong, pronounced taste to them. I started feeling sick, then took a closer look at the cookies. They had spores ALL OVER them. I took the cookies back to the shop to show them, and they offered me a free cup of cookies; I declined for obvious reasons. Businesses CANNOT be serving expired foods to customers. This is so dangerous. I also tried the croissant, and it was good. The baguette was just okay. DO NOT take your chances. Go to a more established, respected shop.

Potsdam was the royal playground of Prussian royalty, and of course, it was where Europe was…read moredivided by the four allied powers in 1945. An hour's train ride from Central Berlin, this town is a lazy and picturesque place trapped in our minds from Miyazaki films. After a long day of visiting palaces, getting a beer and some good German food is important. Cafe Heider, right on the main boulevard near a picturesque stone gate, is a place to hang out and watch the locals and tourists go by. It has been doing so since 1878. We ordered beer and wine under huge red umbrellas. Then we got right into it : KAISER GULASCH (Goulash), the HEIDER'S KÄSESPÄTZLEPFANNE (spatial with ham and cheese), and the KÖNIGSBERGER KLOPSE (pork dumplings, and mashed potatoes. Mein Gott! We enjoyed eating and drinking and relaxing on a lazy summer afternoon. We highly recommend this restaurant.

A classic German café in Potsdam. We came here for coffee and cake after strolling around town…read more Cozy place with solid pastry selections but otherwise not remarkable.

I adored this cozy cafe for breakfast and was tempted to return for another meal on the same day…read more Even though there were other glorious items on the menu, I ordered a fruit salad. An enormous platter of cut fruit arrived. It was drizzled with some honey. I also tried a croissant. My dining companion ordered some sort of open-faced egg sandwich drizzled with balsamic vinegar. It was divine.

My friends and I were blown away by this cafe. The menu is small menu, but what this place served…read morewas fresh, tasty and value for money. The waiter was humorous, multi-lingual and attentive. The service was fast and spot on. We were there on a winter afternoon and because it was cold, sat inside. There are 6-7 tables inside, and not much room to move around. It has an intimate feel, with colourful decor. To start, I had a delicious green-bean and pork soup - clean fresh flavours. The main was a salad, with caramelised goats cheese. It was incredible! Mixed leaves, nuts, blueberries, strawberries and grapes covered in a sweet vinaigrette dressing - and the most delicious cheese. I also tried my friend's chicken pasta main. It was scrummy! I couldn't fault the meal, the service or the ambience. 5 stars!

This is a review for the restaurant - not the biergarten…read more In Germany, food at biergartens is usually much worse than food in the associated restaurant - even if both are run by the same people. * * * There has been a management change at Zur Historischen Muhle which has made a very very significant difference. The Historic Mill Restaurant is the upscale destination restaurant at Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam. Sanssouci Palace is the German Answer to Versailles - the Palace built by Frederick the Great in the era of Absolutism. Frederick the Great had far better taste than did Louis the XIV. Louis the XIV just wanted the biggest palace possible. Many of his ministers, such as Fouquet, built far more beautiful palaces than Versailles, only on a smaller scale. Frederick who was a flutist and a composer oversaw the aesthetic development of Sanssouci. The palace and gardens are smaller, yet magnificently designed. The architecture, landscape architecture, and appointments are stunning. Symbolism and allegorical themes can be found throughout. This is an intellectual's palace the way that Wagner is an intellectual's opera. * * * Tourist attractions need places to eat - particularly when they are of the scale of imperial palaces with massive gardens. There are any number of snack bars around. These are as wretched as tourist snack bars are anywhere. The upscale restaurant, named after a nearly windmill that serviced the castle, is built in a stunning late nineteenth century garden house. More on the house later. For a long time, it was run by the Movenpick group. All signs are that they ran the mill as a tourist rip-off. Prices were astronomical. Service was abysmal. Some Yelpers complain that even the water was dubious. * * * The German government cleaned house. Zur Historische Muhle is now run by Arcona, a small hotel group on the Baltic coast, that specializes in boutique hotels and restaurants at resort locations. Prices are still sky high - but the intention is to provide a truly worthwhile destination experience. We spent over $100 euros for lunch for two with one alcoholic beverage and no dessert. But I would have to say that that lunch was outstanding. * * * German food is hard to find in the Berlin area. (Potsdam is for all intents and purposes a Berlin suburb the same way that Versailles is a Paris suburb.) But locations that serve international tourists will serve German food because that is what the tourists expect. The German food here is outstanding. I had a first rate plum brandy. (German plum brandy is not a true slivovitz such as is found in the former Yugoslavia. It does not have formaldehyde which gives slivovitz its distinctive bite, taste and awful health effects. You will live a lot longer drinking German plum brandy than you will drinking Croatian plum brandy.) I had a fine beef stock with fresh tomatoes and the super thin egg noodles Eastern Europeans use like fideo. The soup was lovely. The main course was a veal steak. You just don't see veal steak served in the United States. Germany has better veal than we have in the U.S. The steak was fine eating. A few parts could have used some pounding with a tenderizer hammer to deal with some toughness. But I am more concerned with flavor than tenderness in a steak. The veal tasted just great. The star of the plate was sauteed potatoes with sauteed micro-carrots and a micro-parsnip. The potatoes were served in massive quantity and were absolutely to die for. My wife got the funniest dish of the day and the best bargain at that. She ordered a sole meuniere. Normally, those of us used to British or French cooking expect a sole meuniere to be a breaded, sauteed fillet of sole. This was a breaded sauteed entire sole from head to tail. It was the size of a submarine sandwich. And she had a full complement of vegetable garnishes to go with it. My wife is usually not that much of a big eater. But she polished off that sole and the veggies quite happily. She gave her dish a big thumbs up. * * * What moved that lunch from 60 euros in value to over 100 euros in value was the room. Never mind being next to a castle and being able to comfortably stroll to the palace gate on time for one's entry slot. The room itself was charming enough that I could have made an afternoon just eating at the Historische Muhle. The room was a garden room with twenty foot ceilings and gazebo like windows looking at the scenery outside. We were eating in May when everything was lush and green. The effect was very much like being in a German impressionist painting. The look and feel was complete and total Max Liebermann. * * * Would I do this again? Absolutely! Would my banker let me do this again? Hell no. But Arcona has done the world a great service. If this is what Arcona provides for hotels and restaurants, I would happily stay in any of their establishments.

A pleasant sight to see…read more Our holiday visit to Europe took us to Potsdam today to see some great palaces. Tourists also must eat, and that took us to Movenpick over by the Schloss Sanssouci Palace. Once we found the restaurant and walked in we were shown to a table. It is a large bright place, or would have been bright if the day was not cloudy and rainy. Menus that included English descriptions were dropped off. I decided on Pasta Pilze, a mushroom and pasta dish with onions and topped with bacon. It was perfect for me today, good sized and I liked how it tasted. The bacon pieces really helped make this dish. While we waited for our food, we received bread and butter along with our drinks. That helped quench our thirst and hunger while we waited, but the wait wasn't long at about 12 minutes. During that time, I also took a look at their dessert menu. When people refer to food porn, these pictures would qualify. They were gorgeous photos of various ice cream offerings, art at its finest. After my pasta, I ordered what would be their banana split dessert, and while what I received did not look anything like the menu photo, as you can see from my photo it was definitely good enough to eat. We were quite pleased to see Movenpick, having fond memories of the restaurant chain from when we were on an overseas work assignment decades ago. This visit just added to those good rememberances.