Bakeries with great bread

The bakery and pastry shop of Lars Siebert is Berlin's oldest bakery and to this day remains a family-run business.

The Wiener Brot is a bakery run by the well-known TV chef Sarah Wiener. Her baker's shop uses a traditional, wood-fired oven.

The bakery Bäckerei Seitz brings Franconian and international bread specialities to Berlin-Schöneberg.

Even in more difficult times for bakeries, Lindner has always maintained the standards of their products. Their shop on Wittenbergplatz is a great place to enjoy their creations sitting in the sun.

Best dairy products, daily fresh sourdough bread and ham from Germany and Spain in addition to many other culinary revelations are offered by Brot & Butter ("Bread & Butter"), a bakery with its own bakehouse in Haus Hardenberg on Ernst-Reuter-Platz.

Very inconspicuous from the outside, but a real insiders' tip is Conditorei Jebens, very close to the S-Bahn station Hohenzollerndamm.

Sheet cakes like mom used to bake, cookies shaped like the TV Tower and the Berlin special Splitterbrötchen sell like hot cakes at the small bakery Bäckerei Hacker in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg.

Endorphina Backkunst is a Berlin bakery using only organically produced ingredients for their baked creations.

The Alpenstück ("Piece of the Alps") in Berlin-Mitte combines the qualities of a bakery and a café. Trained bakers practise their craft here in their own bakehouse.

Ever since 1918 Pankow-Rosenthal's bakery and patisserie Bäckerei und Konditorei Pawlik has been sweetening peoples' lives with great bread and delicious cakes.