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Café Lutetia
A café, restaurant and bar serving Spanish tapas alongside French and German dishes, with a large Sunday brunch buffet and an outdoor terrace.
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Café Madame
A café at Mehringplatz serving a changing weekday lunch, house-baked cakes and tortes, and organic lemonade, with a piano and cultural events.
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Café Marisa
A green Charlottenburg café with a garden, serving homemade salads, daily soups, bagels and cakes. Many dishes are vegan or vegetarian, and breakfast runs on weekends and public holidays.
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Café Meta
A restaurant in Prenzlauer Berg serving German and Berlin dishes made with fresh, regional ingredients, with two rooms for small celebrations.
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Café MoKannTi
Family-run coffee roastery in Prenzlauer Berg that roasts its own single-variety Arabica beans on a drum roaster. It also serves Eritrean and Ethiopian dishes and homemade cakes, and sells beans to take home.
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Café Morgenlicht
A Charlottenburg café with house-made cakes that change daily and by season, alongside coffee specialties and oriental dishes; its terrace sits under trees.
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Café Morgenrot
A collectively run café and bar in Prenzlauer Berg, known for its vegan weekend brunch buffet, with art shows and Monday readings and talks.
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Café Obergfell
A hotel café and bar in south Berlin, where a family bakery's cakes sit beside evening cocktails and a breakfast buffet.
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Café Olea
A Schöneberg café with outdoor seating and a menu with vegan and vegetarian options.
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Café Pavillon am Boxhagener Platz
A daytime café with outdoor seating on Boxhagener Platz, open through the weekend mornings and afternoons.
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Cafe Peppe
An Italian-style café in Schöneberg with outdoor seating, open from early morning until evening.
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Cafe Peri
A Turkish grill and breakfast restaurant on Potsdamer Straße serving shared kahvaltı tables for two to six, with a fully halal menu and no alcohol.
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Café Prana
A small cafe where the whole menu is gluten-free and plant-based, with homemade cashew milk in the lattes and ceremonial cacao on the drinks list. Community breakfasts, brunches and dinners run here from time to time.
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Café Schwartzsche Villa
A café in a former banker's summer residence, with a gallery and theatre upstairs. Breakfast, bistro dishes, cake, wine and cocktails, indoors or in the summer garden.
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Cafe Sidney
Restaurant on Pariser Straße serving a varied menu, with a large brunch buffet every Sunday until 14:00 and outdoor seating.
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Cafe Sommerlust
Small open-air garden café in the Schlossgarten Schönhausen park, shaded by linden trees. Coffee specialities, homemade cakes and tarts, Belgian waffles and savoury jars of soup, with mulled drinks in winter. It closes in winter and reopens in spring.
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Cafe Spot
Prager Platz café roasting premium coffee, with seasonal specialities that change through the year. Cakes and pastries are baked in-house each day, plus a few fresh salads with herbs.
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Café Tasso
An organic café in Friedrichshain with a secondhand bookshop, hosting evening concerts, readings, theatre and exhibitions.
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Cafe Tatou
An Italian restaurant and café on Kantstraße with wood-fired pizza, pasta and tiramisu, and outdoor seating.
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Cafe Tee Stube
Wedding café with a programme of pottery courses: a two-day wheel-throwing course for beginners, hand-built pottery and two-hour ceramic painting sessions.
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Café Theater Schalotte
A small Charlottenburg theatre with a café, mixing music theatre, a cappella concerts, piano-accompanied songs and cabaret-style comedy.
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Café Wunder
A daytime café in Moabit with coffee, cake and a menu offering vegan and vegetarian options, with outdoor seating.
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Cafelix
A small artisan coffee roastery in Prenzlauer Berg, with a café where you can taste the coffee before buying beans for home brewing. Roasts in small batches.
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CÀI Kitchen
Szechuan-style Chinese and Asian cooking with vegan dishes, smoke-free, and no reservations taken.