14 Locations
The bakehouse is where the day starts in Berlin, the working heart behind the counter where dough is mixed, proved and baked. Some spots open their bakehouse to view, so customers can watch bread and pastries come out of the oven. This tag collects Berlin locations that put craft baking on show.
Artisan bakers across Kreuzberg, Neukoelln and Wedding work with natural leaven and long fermentation, turning out sourdough, rye and seasonal specialities. Many hold workshops where you can knead and shape your own loaf, and weekend markets feature stalls selling straight from the bakehouse. The smell alone is worth the trip.
Browse the addresses below to find a bakehouse across Berlin, from tiny micro bakeries to busy traditional ovens.
Specialty coffee and self-roasted beans in a charmingly nostalgic retro look: Café Pakolat on Raumerstraße in Prenzlauer Berg is a roastery, cake manufactory, and living room café all at once – and one of Berlin's most authentic coffee houses.
On Rykestraße in Prenzlauer Berg, cena.brot exclusively bakes sourdough breads using traditional craftsmanship, yet with surprising ingredients from all over the world. Here, Vietnamese family history and Berlin bread culture meet – entirely without baking yeast, but with a lot of character.
Whoever is looking for real artisan bread in Moabit will sooner or later end up in the glazed bakery of Domberger Brot-Werk. Here, from flour, water, salt, and sourdough, probably the most digestible bread in the city is baked. No doping, no industrial grains. Just skill.
Since 1906, Siebert Bakery on Schönfließer Straße in Prenzlauer Berg has stood for what good Berlin bakery craftsmanship should represent: everything handmade, according to traditional family recipes, without industrial compromises. Those who queue here in the morning get more than fresh bread.
Located in Berlin-Mitte, not far from Monbijou Park, Wiener Brot Holzofenbäckerei stands for what good bread in this city rarely represents: Austrian baking artistry, honest craftsmanship, and sourdough that has truly been given time. Not a mass-produced loaf, but two kilos of baked conviction from the wood-fired oven.
Successful Christmas baking with professional help: At the Charlotte Baking School in Charlottenburg, you learn the tricks for perfect Christmas cookies!
In Wilmersdorf, at Mehlitzstraße 7, stands Berlin's oldest Demeter wholemeal bakery: Weichardt-Brot. Since 1977, grain has been freshly ground daily on natural stone mills, baked with homemade sourdough, and consistently free of any chemical additives. Good bread, in the truest sense of the word.
In Berlin's Neukölln Schillerkiez, directly on Hermannstraße, Gorilla Bäckerei bakes artisanal sourdough bread with depth. The open bakery makes the concept transparent, and the quality explains the queue outside.
In Friedrichshain, right by Frankfurter Tor, the whole grain bakery Hartwich has been baking genuine artisan bread from organic whole grain flour for years. The family business stands for sourdough, spelt, and sweet surprises far beyond standard bakery offerings.
Baking has been done in Hochkirchstraße in Schöneberg for over a hundred years, and Brotgut Backstube & Ladencafé continues this tradition today. The sourdough bread is made without additives, using flour directly from a mill in Luckenwalde. Tables inside and out invite you to stay longer for breakfast or lunch.
Where Charlottenburg meets true craftsmanship: Manufactum Brot & Butter on Hardenbergstraße stands for stone oven bread from its own bakery, exquisite delicacies, and a commitment to quality that you can taste. No supermarket bread, no compromises.
Handmade cakes based on recipes from a Spanish grandmother, a plush café ambiance, and eleven cheesecake variations on the counter: Frau Behrens Torten in Charlottenburg, Kreuzberg, and Friedenau represents confectionery craftsmanship that is hard to find twice in Berlin.
Bäckerei & Konditorei M. Biesewski in Pasteurstraße in Bötzowkiez bakes in its own in-house bakery, without preservatives and with nine employees. It is famous for its Old Berlin Schrippen, which are as small and compact as in GDR times. If you want to taste rather than visit Ostalgie in Berlin, you queue up here in the morning.
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.