In Berlin you’ll find good specialty coffee mainly in Mitte, Wedding and Kreuzberg, and 12 of the 14 cafés serve their own roasts.14 cafés with addresses and opening hours, coffee history since 1722 and a route for your coffee day.
All cafés are recommended by specialist sources such as European Coffee Trip, Barista Magazine or tipBerlin. According to their own website or a directory, they were open in October 2026. The order follows the districts and is not a ranking. There are no paid placements.
In December 2016 the rotunda of Café Kranzler on Kurfürstendamm got a new tenant. The newcomer was The Barn, a roastery from Mitte that serves coffee from individual farms. The Berlin daily taz headlined its report ‘Cappuccino statt Kännchen’ (cappuccino instead of a pot of filter coffee). It is hard to show more clearly how far the Berlin scene had come in ten years.
It all started in 2006 with Bonanza in Prenzlauer Berg. The Barn in Mitte and Five Elephant in Kreuzberg followed in 2010, and a city magazine later called the three the ‘Big Three’. In 2024 the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography counted around 1,500 roasteries across Germany. Of these, 61 were in Berlin, more than in Hamburg or Munich. The count includes all roasteries, not just specialty businesses.
You can cover the addresses in Mitte on foot in a morning. Wedding, Prenzlauer Berg, Kreuzberg and Treptow are easy to reach by U-Bahn and S-Bahn. How to recognise a good café along the way is explained in our guide to spotting a good specialty coffee shop.
Mitte: courtyards and filter coffee between Auguststraße and Alexanderplatz
First café since 2010
The Barn Mitte
This is where The Barn began: Ralf Rüller, previously an actor in London, opened his first café on Auguststraße in 2010. Two years later he started roasting himself, only single origins and with the producers named on the pack. In September 2020 a separate roastery with a café followed in the Brunnenviertel, in the former AEG headquarters from 1883. Today the website lists ten cafés in Berlin.
- Address
- Auguststraße 58, 10119 Berlin
- Open
- Mon to Fri 8am to 6pmSat 9am to 6pmSun 10am to 6pmaccording to website, October 2026
Courtyard café
Father Carpenter
Father Carpenter sits in a brick courtyard off Münzstraße. Kresten Thogersen from Melbourne started it as a pop-up in January 2015, and the permanent café followed within a year. For years the café shared its roasting with Fjord, which he had founded with the team from Silo Coffee. Since 2023 Father Carpenter has been an independent roastery, roasting in Mitte. The café is known for eggs Benedict and vegan banana bread, and on weekdays the kitchen closes at 3.30pm.
- Address
- Münzstraße 21, 10178 Berlin
- Open
- Mon to Fri 9am to 4pmSat and Sun 10am to 5pmPublic holidays 10am to 4pmaccording to website, October 2026
Since 2014
Distrikt Coffee
Distrikt does not roast itself but serves beans from several European roasteries, including Fjord from Berlin. The café has been running since 2014 and is also a brunch spot. In January 2026 a trade magazine recommended the filter coffee in particular.
- Address
- Bergstraße 68, 10115 Berlin
- Open
- Mon to Fri 8.30am to 4pmSat and Sun 9am to 4.30pmaccording to European Coffee Trip, 5 October 2026
Glass-walled roastery at Alexanderplatz
19grams Alex
19grams used to be called Tres Cabezas and roasted in Friedrichshain. Today the roaster stands in the café on Karl-Liebknecht-Straße, and you can watch the roasting through large windows. On the first Wednesday of every month at 6pm there is a public cupping with six to eight coffees for €15.
- Address
- Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 13, 10178 Berlin
- Open
- Mon to Thu 8am to 5pmFri 8am to 6pmSat 9am to 6pmSun 9am to 5pmaccording to European Coffee Trip, 5 October 2026
Mitte north of Torstraße and Wedding: four roasteries with a counter
All four roast at their address or across the street and sell beans. How roast date and storage affect flavour is explained in How to store coffee beans.
Roastery, café and academy
Röststätte Berlin
Röststätte started in 2003 as a shop for coffee machines, run by Ivo and Yvonne Weller. Since 2011 the roastery, café, machine shop and a barista academy have shared one roof on Ackerstraße. The coffee is roasted on site, and the bar serves espresso, batch brew and pour-over. There are also courses on barista basics, latte art and roasting.
- Address
- Ackerstraße 173, 10115 Berlin
- Open
- Mon to Fri 8am to 6pmSat and Sun 9.30am to 6pmaccording to European Coffee Trip, 5 October 2026
New since 2025
Kolo
Vladyslav Demonenko founded the brand in 2024, and the café opened in 2025. Demonenko won the Ukrainian Brewers Cup in 2023, and Kolo was named best specialty coffee shop at Berlin Coffee Week 2025. Kolo calls itself a micro-roastery, and according to a roastery directory the roasting is done in the café.
- Address
- Brunnenstraße 158, 10115 Berlin
- Open
- Tue to Fri 8.30am to 5pmSat and Sun 9am to 6pmMon closedaccording to European Coffee Trip, 5 October 2026
Flagship next to the roastery
Coffee Circle Wedding
Coffee Circle first sold its coffee online and now runs eight cafés in Berlin. The café on Lindower Straße is in the same building complex as the roastery and office. You can buy freshly roasted beans there to take away. All the cafés are open until 7pm, weekends included.
- Address
- Lindower Straße 18, 13347 Berlin
- Open
- Mon to Fri 8am to 7pmSat and Sun 9am to 7pmaccording to website, October 2026
Coffee shop since 2018
Flying Roasters
Flying Roasters roasts only certified organic coffees and buys its green coffee directly from cooperatives. The team is organised as a collective and delivers around Berlin by cargo bike. The coffee shop with café opened opposite the roastery on Hochstraße in 2018, and a second one has been open in Kreuzberg since autumn 2025.
- Address
- Hochstraße 34, 13357 Berlin
- Open
- Mon to Sun 10am to 6pmaccording to website, October 2026
Pankow and Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg: the pioneers and the neighbourhood
Since 2006
Bonanza Coffee Heroes
Bonanza is regarded as one of the first third-wave cafés in Berlin. Yumi Choi and Kiduk Reus opened it in 2006 under the name Heroes on Oderberger Straße. Instead of a Fairtrade label, the founders relied on buying directly from farms. Today Bonanza roasts in Berlin and has four cafés in Prenzlauer Berg, Mitte and Kreuzberg.
- Address
- Oderberger Straße 35, 10435 Berlin
- Open
- Mon to Fri 9am to 6pmSat and Sun 10am to 6pmaccording to website, October 2026
Since December 2010
Five Elephant Kreuzberg
Five Elephant opened in December 2010 on a quiet corner of Reichenberger Straße. The cheesecake is still its calling card. It has roasted in Berlin since 2010, with the roastery and bakery on Glogauer Straße. The company runs five cafés, one of them in the Neue Nationalgalerie.
- Address
- Reichenberger Straße 101, 10999 Berlin
- Open
- Mon to Fri 8am to 6pmSat and Sun 9am to 6pmDifferent hours on public holidaysaccording to website, October 2026
Roastery since 2014
Kaffeekirsche
Turabi Kocadag founded Kaffeekirsche in 2014. The roasting takes place at Tempelhofer Damm 160, where you can watch through the windows. The roastery says it sources many of its coffees directly from farms, for example in Colombia, Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
- Address
- Adalbertstraße 23, 10997 Berlin
- Open
- Mon to Fri 8am to 5pmSat and Sun 10am to 5pmaccording to European Coffee Trip, 20 October 2026
Roastery with café: Tempelhofer Damm 160, 12099 Berlin.
Breakfast near Boxhagener Platz
Silo Coffee
Silo does not roast itself but is closely linked to a Berlin roastery. Together with Father Carpenter, the team founded the Fjord roastery, whose coffee is served here. During the week it closes at 3pm, on Fridays at 3.30pm.
- Address
- Gabriel-Max-Straße 4, 10245 Berlin
- Open
- Mon to Thu 8.30am to 3pmFri 8.30am to 3.30pmSat and Sun 9am to 4.30pmaccording to European Coffee Trip, 5 October 2026
Treptow-Köpenick and Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf: a roastery by the Spree, coffee in the Kranzler
Roastery since 2015
Passenger Coffee
Passenger started in 2004 as a mobile espresso bar in a converted Piaggio Ape. The first permanent café followed in the Wrangelkiez in 2010, and the roastery in Alt-Treptow in 2015. The coffee is roasted on a Loring Smart Roaster. On Saturdays from 8.30am to 3.30pm, a mobile café stands at the weekly market on Boxhagener Platz.
- Address
- Elsenstraße 38, 12435 Berlin
- Open
- Mon to Fri 8am to 5.30pmSat and Sun 9.30am to 5pmaccording to website, October 2026
In the Kranzler rotunda since 2016
The Barn Kranzler Eck
From the 1930s, Café Kranzler on Kurfürstendamm was an offshoot of the original café on Unter den Linden. The rotunda is now a listed building. The Barn moved in there in December 2016.
- Address
- Kurfürstendamm 21, 10719 Berlin
- Open
- Mon to Sat 9am to 7pmSun 10am to 6pmaccording to website, October 2026
The map: all 14 addresses at a glance
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Opening hours and route: start early, finish early
Most cafés open between 8am and 9am, and several close in the afternoon. The latest, until 7pm, are Coffee Circle every day and The Barn in the Kranzler from Monday to Saturday.
Many cafés offer filter coffee as well as espresso, and at Distrikt and Kolo it is even the recommendation. What sets the different drippers apart is explained in our comparison of the V60, Kalita and Chemex.
How to turn the addresses into a coffee day:
- Start at 8am at The Barn on Auguststraße or at 8.30am at Distrikt. Breakfast at Father Carpenter is served until 3.30pm on weekdays.
- Buy beans at Röststätte or at Kolo on Brunnenstraße, but note that Kolo is closed on Mondays.
- On the first Wednesday of the month, the public cupping at 19grams on Alexanderplatz at 6pm is worth it.
- At midday, head to Kreuzberg for Five Elephant and Kaffeekirsche. Silo in Friedrichshain closes at 3pm on weekdays.
- End the day at Coffee Circle or at Kranzler Eck, both open until 7pm.
Coffee history: from Café Royal in 1722 to the Kranzler rotunda
Berlin’s first coffee house opened on the Spree on 10 August 1722, by order of King Frederick William I. Café Royal was run by a Monsieur Olivier, recruited in Amsterdam, and its guests were mainly garrison officers. Frederick the Great put a high import tax on coffee, and 400 so-called coffee sniffers were meant to track down secret roasters. By 1830 the number of coffee houses had risen to about 100, because confectioners were now also allowed to serve coffee.
One of these confectioners was Johann Georg Kranzler from Lower Austria. At the end of 1834 he opened Café Kranzler on Unter den Linden. He was the first coffee house owner in Berlin to set up a smoking room. In the early 20th century, artists met at the Café des Westens on Kurfürstendamm, and after the First World War at the Romanisches Café. During the Great Depression at the end of the 1920s, many cafés had to close.
Today a roastery from Mitte serves coffee from individual farms in the Kranzler rotunda.
Last updated: 25 October 2026. Opening hours according to the businesses’ websites or European Coffee Trip (stated for each café). Hours often differ on public holidays, so please check before you visit.
Sources
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