The best bars and cafés Germany

Hidden - under the Friedrichstraße underground - and discreet - no sign, but a door and a doorbell - the Tausend has nevertheless made a name for itself in recent years. It is the meeting place for fashion weeks, fashionable people, advertising and a few well-connected outsiders. It must be said that the door is not always easy and that it's the style that prevails to enter this speakeasy that reminds us of the years of prohibition in the US. A long bar, where jazz and flamenco are played as well as a smoky room filled with the most hype in Berlin.

This bar perched above the waters of the Landwehrkanal (where the Turkish market begins) is best known for its disco club parties on Thursdays, when it is packed to the brim with local students. The atmosphere can also quickly get wild on Saturday nights. The rest of the time, it's a good, quiet place to have a drink in the early evening or a coffee and a bite to eat after a stroll through the Turkish market on Tuesday and Friday afternoons. The place is original and offers a very pleasant setting with a beautiful view of the swans on the canal.

On Schlesische Straße, next to Café Wendel, it's hard not to notice this bar tucked away in a vast warehouse. With its high ceilings and small mezzanine, L.U.X.(Leiseste Unterhaltung XBerg) offers a highly varied program. Open mic, acoustic evenings (Wednesdays), rock or electro disco, anything goes. On weekends, the place is packed into the wee hours of the morning for offbeat evenings like Soap.

Small French bar in the famous Simon-Dach-Straße, the street of Friedrichshain where bars, pubs and restaurants line up (and which has become far too touristy for our taste). Place Clichy was once the favorite spot for French expats and students in Friedrichshain, and was once the favorite spot of the all-Berlin underground. The glory hour is a little past, but this bar remains one of the pleasant places to meet in the neighbourhood to have a glass of wine, a beer, or even, from time to time, to take part in a bingo game!

This 1900's bar is like a dinosaur in this changing neighbourhood and all the stalls are in constant turnover. In Polish, Mysliwska means "hunter's bar". You are quickly plunged into another universe. Couples kiss each other in the back, the music is strange, a kind of experimental electro folk, and when we arrive at 4am, we realize that we wouldn't want to be anywhere else. If you can't stand Berlin's trendy bars and are looking for an authentic address, the Myslinska is for you.

For all coffee lovers, this little espresso bar is one of the must-see addresses. The coffees are carefully prepared and roasted on site. The prices are certainly above average but the quality is there and the place is not lacking in charm. If you want to relive the experience at home, there is a shop on the website where you can buy the best coffees from Brazil, Peru or Ethiopia. Bonanza also has another coffee shop in Kreuzberg, Adalbertstraße 70.

Once one of the most prominent bars on Oranienstraße, Luzia has lost some of its splendour. It has to be said that this café-bar no longer has much of the alternative Kreuzberg. Cocktails cost around 10 €, the music can quickly become too loud and the presence of bouncers at the entrance can be surprising. But the Luzia continues to charm us with its candlelight, simple furniture and golden walls. The Luzia remains a good address where you can enjoy a drink with friends in the early evening.

A deli that imports the best espresso bar recipes from Seattle. As can be seen from the beautiful Gaggia machine and the various coffees on offer: Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru, Kenya, Guatemala..., this brand wants to offer the best possible coffee in Berlin. Homemade bagels with all kinds of toppings: peanut butter, cream cheese... Taste the cinnamon-raisin, exquisite! The many cakes (chocolate, lemon, cheesecake, etc.) and cupcakes made on site and displayed in the shop window are a feast for the eyes and taste buds.

Kreuzberg is full of trendy brunch spots, serving poached eggs and avocado toast. Fortunately, at Annelies you won't find anything like that. The menu is rather minimalist and changes according to the season, but the dishes are creative and very aesthetic. If the pancakes (savory or sweet) are the café's star dishes, the revelation is the scrambled eggs covered with smoked egg yolk on a slice of sourdough bread. Be prepared to wait in line, the café is a neighborhood favorite and does not take reservations.

Traditional pub where the atmosphere is always very festive. Latin music, years 80, rock or R'NB depending on night. Themed evenings sometimes organized. Also restoration. 

A tiny gay-friendly coffee shop at Whether Allee and Dantzgierstrasse, right in front of the Suspendu Strasse underground tube. Friendly atmosphere, original garden (coffee bags and coffee makers). Excellent pastries.

Attended by male and female clients, this bar regularly receives gatherings of Bear and/or Fetishists associations. Outdoor terrace.

The gay institution of the Kottbusser Tor, in the heart of the Kreuzberg district, is always full to bursting no matter what night you go. It's the ransom of its success. Make your way through the crowd, order a delicious draught Polish beer and enjoy the scenery. Family pictures, Santa Claus skeletons, 1970s design lamps in the middle of candlesticks, doll legs sticking out of the ceiling. A truly unusual setting for a friendly bar. Tuesdays are lesbian nights.

Art, culture, clubbing and gastronomy… In Passage 46, there was no de facto choice: the place breaststroke these four elements. Open at noon, it is possible to enjoy a lunch or afternoon snack, to enjoy a concert at the beginning of the evening or a piece of theatre and to finish in a disco atmosphere. An original and complete concept. With or without alcohol, the cocktails are delicious.

In the former offices of the Czech airline CSA, this pretty, upscale cocktail bar has long been a haunt for fashion, film and advertising people. Less fashionable today, it's more touristy and the atmosphere is a bit stilted... But you will still be able to enjoy the delicious cocktails à la carte and the cream-coloured decor which oscillates between the retro and the ultramodern. Here we are a little out of time, somewhere between the 1960s and today, between Berlin, Prague and Warsaw...

Here's a cocktail bar with an unusual concept: drinks and assorted snacks are served. All the products used are from the German-speaking world: no cinnamon, chocolate or lemon. The decor has something of the elegance of the 1970s, with its instagrammable pink hues, all in a very girly , photogenic atmosphere. The cocktails are surprising, and some are even prepared with parmesan cheese, like the "Funky Fresa". The name refers to the homemade popcorn served with the delicious cocktails.

Discover the Café-Jardin Tibet Kailash, Fribourg's secret jewel! Between prayer flags, bright flowers and a stupa blessed by the Dalai Lama, this sanctuary is not just a café, but a haven of peace. Cross the green archway to the backyard café, where stress evaporates to the sound of the piano and the scent of ginger tea. These gardens, overflowing with almost kitsch greenery, offer a spacious escape from the hustle and bustle. A place where every moment becomes a soothing escape. You can also visit the Tibetan handicraft store!

At the Kastaniengarten, history and beer come together in a unique experience. In summer, enjoy a cool drink and a local specialty under the setting sun. This garden is the ideal place to share convivial moments with friends, family or lovers. Whether you're looking for an evening with a view or a gourmet breakfast, you'll find the perfect setting. Come to the Kastaniengarten to celebrate the harmony between tradition and modernity, authentic flavors and a lively atmosphere, friendship, good food and a passion for beer.

Beautiful, elegant café located in the city theatre. Pleasant and pleasant atmosphere.

The scarcity of bars that give pride of place to lesbian visibility makes it essential to mention this nice café-bar in Kreuzberg. Apart from the Thursday evening, which is reserved for queer women, the Oya is open to everyone. Oya is at the same time a café, a bar, a place of sociability and a committed collective: its events are queer-feminist, anti-racist and rooted in the social reality of the neighbourhood. During the day, it also serves vegetarian and/or vegan cuisine. In the evening, it's more of a pub atmosphere. An excellent address.

Potsdam is a student city, unfortunately too close to Berlin. A large proportion of its students choose to live in Berlin and commute there every day. Therefore, there is not the student atmosphere that you can experience in other small German cities. The cafe-bar 11-Line is an exception. It's a small, friendly bar like you'll find in Berlin, with its unusual furniture. In the afternoon you can come here for coffee and cake, a snack, a beer in the evening or a board game.

The name of the bar is both intriguing and awesome; literally: the wicked wolf. The decoration of this excellent bar in Friedrichshain plays skillfully with the hijacking of objects: the lighting is done with construction lamps (portable lamps), old window frames act as walls, and the whole thing is very successful! The speciality of Krass Böser Wolf is Giniwi, a shooter made of gin and kiwi puree. Very friendly and in the immediate vicinity of large Berlin nightclubs: About Blank or the Salon zur Wilden Renate.

Café Konditorei Bockstaller is a small, intimate tea room with comfortable seating and a wide selection of pastries. The place is ideal for a sweet break: chocolate cakes, lemon tarts, strawberries, meringues, and a wide selection of chocolates on display in the window will make sweet tooths salivate. The veranda offers a beautiful view of the village and forest. It's a popular spot for bikers on their Black Forest outings.

Want to cut short with everyday life? Need a holiday on the seashore without the budget that goes with it? No problem, Mauritius is there for that. The establishment reopened in July. The place is restaurant and bar, all in a resolutely summer and lounge atmosphere. For a casual lunch or dinner among friends, you can choose between various salads, pizzas, grilled meats and toasted sandwiches. Very "vacation" dishes, served in good quantity for quite nice prices. But what attracts mainly the Fribourgeois is the terrace their feet in the sand. Deck chairs, deck chairs, floating wood tables… They even thought about the sandbox for children. You can sip a cocktail among the many proposals of the map. You can find classic Sex on the Beach or Cosmopolitan, but also some pretty fruity creations like the Blade (tequila, vodka, strawberry purée, lemon juice, raspberry syrup). They are fresh, well executed, well dosed. On the "alcohol-free" side, cocktails are not with about twenty fruity and original propositions. We're valid. Tie your belts, the Petit Futé team wishes you a good flight.

A very busy coffee for students, renowned for their croissants! Good cakes also from adjacent bakery.

Jos Fritz always has the walls full of artistic photographs of local artists. Its coffee is extra and its outdoor terrace is surrounded by walls and countryside, with green plants everywhere. The staff were very friendly and helpful.

Past the small entrance, the walls are covered with old posters of all kinds, old wax candles that seem to have known generations of beer lovers. The sofas are comfortable, and you can go to the bottom of the bar, go down a few steps and find themselves in a charming inner terrace (where you can smoke) where you can use huge beer in a shoe-shaped glass. Eat well, try flammeküche (salty or sweet), Alsatian speciality. You will definitely come back to this!

A beer garden in front of a lake can only be nice. It has been experienced: indeed, a good time to relax!

In the section of small adorable cafés, you can say that a pearl was found in the Haslacherstrasse. Hidden behind the premises of Kulturpark, we certainly did not expect to discover such a cute place behind the buildings. The decor is quite girly, and it gives the tone. The open-air terrace calls for relaxation and gives only one desire: sit down with a drink. Sweet sweets are in honor, the Schweinereien Süße as they are called here: pies, cookies, parts of cakes but also waffles… It's the paradise of sweet. And it would be wrong to deprive ourselves, everything is home, everything is delicious without being disgusting or too heavy (main defect of German pastries). Special mention for waffles that are excellent, especially salt with salty butter (only where you will find in Freiburg). And to encourage you to come back, the proposals are different every day. You can enjoy your sweet and fresh juices and drinks, or even ice from the Hofeis brand (popular local brand) for the gourmands. You can also opt for the salty snack snacks. In the programme: Salted waffles, Flammkuchen, small pizzas, and this is the opportunity to test a house speciality directly related to the patronne's guadeloupéennes origins: the cod hat. Once simpler, made home, good. We are repeating ourselves. At the Alexandra Elatré service and his associate are lovely and, good point, she speaks perfectly French. For the frame, the atmosphere and the delicacies offered, we return again and again.

Near the train station, in a slightly eccentric alley, one of the rédaction's favourite coffees is: the Freundsaft Café. Freundsaft, before being a coffee it's first of all juice extracted cold, healthyet détox very popular throughout Germany. We could therefore have expected a small, tasteless coffee to the cooker, relying on the brand's notoriety. What a neni! This coffee is a full coffee with a lovely team, who does not take seriously and who cares to do well. The service is always smiling, the atmosphere is relaxed. Add to this a very well thought-out chinée decoration with beautiful wooden tables and benches, or you can spread like on his couch (and take off his shoes), and you left for hours. In good Fribourg coffee, the hotel offers a-hour dining offer next to its home-made gluten-free sweets. The credo is once again the végétalienne kitchen, gluten-free and home of fresh and seasonal produce. Soups, salads, the sandwich box, but also Burger vegetarian, Buddah Bowl and salty waffles for the most adventurous. It's just good, very good. Freundsaft is the daring bet to show us that the kitchen vegan, so trendy, has taste. It's all right. We draw our hat and ask for it. You have understood all the excuses for venturing across the train station.

A real heart for this coffee, which was re-opened in the center of Freiburg. Indeed, he has arguments: A refaite and very well thought-out decoration, a first choice location near university and shops, a very warm staff… Here, you can come all day starting with breakfast with various and varied proposals: classic bread with jams and cheese, cereals, lost bread but also shakshuka or boiled bananas with dry fruit and maple syrup. You can enjoy lunch at lunchtime (2 options) as well as à la carte dishes. They also offer snacks (including the Vesperbrots, which are gourmet sweets, the specialities of the house of which the Germans are very thirsty), which are also available in the evening as well as homemade cakes. Because of the quality of the products and the control of cooking, no matter what your choice, you're sure you won't be wrong. It is also possible to take a drink in a cosy and intimate atmosphere in the evening with interesting proposals of beer, wines and cocktails at affordable prices. The products are qualities, the service is impeccable, the proposals well mastered. In short, there is no reason to stop at Café Gremmels.

Cafe Extrablatt or the café de la Dreisam because what distinguishes this coffee is above all its location, on the edge of the Dreisam. Since its reopening in 2011, the place has now been able to accommodate 100 people inside and 500 outside. It can be said that the Extrablatt chain made a nice operation. This coffee is mainly attended by students as a result of its prices and location although there are also some families. At the level of dishes, the map is long: salads, burgers, pasta, nachos, pizzas, Flammenkuchen, Brägele, ice creams, cakes, waffles… You cannot complain about the lack of choice. But what's also the reputation of coffee is its buffet "Eat all you can" breakfast. In the programme: Once again with scrambled eggs, cold meats, cheese, pasta, croissants, rice and even mini donuts. Necessarily considering the scope of the proposal and prices, don't expect an exceptional taste experience. You know what we say about quality-value-price… About the atmosphere, the watchwords are youth and relaxation. The hotel was very clean, but it was very noisy. The service is flawed: it's that they're overwhelmed and looks pretty pressurized. Finally, the Shaker Time starts at 19 pm with all the cocktails in a jumbo size at 6,45 €. In view of the kitchen we prefer this option so that you can enjoy the framework which is still very pleasant. What to spend a good evening in sum.

«Ach du Liebes Bisschen! ' It's here that everything starts. You are allowed to ask for the translation to the waitress. This small cafe located in the area of Ehren, near the university clinic, is worth the detour (especially as tram No. 5) will drop you in front. Here is a small, peaceful oasis in the residential area. Once again the decoration and layout of the premises are impeccable, very well done. We will particularly appreciate their lovely terrace in the summer offering the possibility of extending onto benches and deckchairs while sipping its iced coffee. The team is adorable, with little care. Service, although relatively young is pretty effective. You will be greeted here from breakfast with several à la carte formulas. The room was very clean and the room was very clean and the room was very clean. A sweet envy? Do not hesitate to break down for the homemade pastries offered by coffee. Not too sweet, not too fat, not too heavy, this is contrasted with the usual offer of the local Konditoreis for our greatest happiness. At noon, a dish of the day is offered to you, adding a map revolving around salads and "Heiße Beißen". These are hot sandwiches with the choice of Volkornbrot or stick with various and varied toppings. " Toscana "is recommended for fresh cheese, salad, candied tomatoes, honey and dates. A simple kitchen but goûteuse in sum, everything you love. In short, for breakfast, lunch or lunch you don't have to love Liebes Bisschen.

Welcome to the paradise of spelt! Located in a residential area, the establishment has made this cereal close to the wheat its business card. In this small coffee-bakery, everything is spelt (except drinks) and is found in all its states: in the form of bread, of course, but also of pastries, cereals, pasta… Let the boss brag about the merits of this cereal and observe the passion to animate it. It would be more digestible than wheat, and for lower glycemic index questions it would make the feeling of ad longer. It's beautiful, it's like testing. It must be said that cereal has a particular success (especially in bakery) across the Rhine. The service is very smiling, the cozy atmosphere. The frame is simple, the decoration is cleaned. We feel good. The offer is quite limited but perfectly controlled. Here the breads all have their little name like Joseph, gingerbread bread to complete flour and seeds. It is good, we approve. At midday, a dish of the day (turning around spelt, of course) is proposed. A good way to discover a new cereal with a thousand virtues and to change its habits the time of a pause or lunch.

After 13 years of success in Majorca, with a coffee of the same name, the Di Nunnos family laid its bags to Freiburg at ZO (the Commercial shopping centre). The particularity? Ice cream, for all tastes, all year round, which have been the subject of some national and international distinctions. They are carefully prepared every day after careful selection of ingredients. We can observe it and the preparation of the cakes of the day from the open kitchen. The scent of this success? Walnuts and lemon. You can also sit at one of the many tables in front of the stand to taste traditional Italian coffee but also sweet and savoury pancakes, waffles, bruschettas. Enjoy breakfast every day with a buffet on Saturdays. Finally, it is noted that there are many football matches in the area, especially those of the SC-Freiburg. Quo Vadis means "where do you go? ": taking a good ice after a session shopping it seems.

A small coffee of taste on two floors with a view of the first floor on the street and outdoor terrace. We love his pastries.