15 Locations
Muffins are an easy pleasure in Berlin's cafes, baked fresh in flavours sweet and savoury. From breakfast bites to afternoon treats, muffins here come in endless varieties. This overview gathers Berlin locations for the classic bake.
Bakeries and coffee shops across the city stack their counters with muffins, from blueberry and banana to chocolate and carrot, with vegan and gluten free options increasingly common. American style bakeries do a particularly good line, and brunch spots use them to round out a spread. A warm muffin and a coffee is a reliable combination.
Browse the addresses below to find muffins across Berlin, from fruity classics to indulgent flavours.
Thursday evening in Kreuzberg means: Street Food Thursday at Markthalle Neun. In the historic hall on Eisenbahnstraße, Berlin's most famous street food market transforms into a multicultural spectacle from 5 PM, which has set the benchmark for all street food markets in the city since 2013.
Tomasa in Villa Kreuzberg is one of Berlin's most beautiful breakfast spots: a historic brick building right by Viktoriapark, which has attracted people from the neighborhood and around the world for almost two decades with its lavish menu and warm atmosphere.
Berlin's first cat café is located in Neukölln's Körnerkiez and offers perhaps the most relaxed remedy for any gloomy morning after. Organic homemade cakes, strong coffee, and three cats setting the pace - here, Skadi, Ylvi, and Odin call the shots.
Since 1994, Cynthia Barcomi and her team have been roasting their own Arabica beans and baking everything themselves in Kreuzberg's Bergmannkiez. With this, the American baking icon has not only created an institution on Bergmannstraße but has also shaped Berlin's coffee culture.
In Berlin-Mitte, on Ackerstrasse not far from Rosenthaler Platz, Yvonne and Ivo Weller have been hand-roasting specialty coffees for over a decade. Röststätte Berlin stands for specialty coffee, its own Barista Academy, and Berlin's largest coffee accessory store, all under one roof.
The Velicious Cafe in Berlin-Friedrichshain is a cute café that offers vegan temptations such as tartlets, muffins and cake.
The Matcha Harmony Cafe on Gabriel-Max-Straße in Friedrichshain is the Berlin address for everyone who takes matcha seriously: creative matcha variations, sweet accompaniments, and a drinks menu ranging from classic lattes to fruity matcha cocktails in a glass.
The family café Mi Mundo in Berlin-Spandau, specifically in Staaken, is the children's café in western Berlin that allows parents to relax and children to play freely. Home-baked waffles, a well-designed room concept without sharp edges, and a garden with an adventure ship make this place a reliable address for families.
Berlin-Kreuzberg's Barcomi's combines the qualities of a coffee roaster with a pastry shop serving American cakes and pastries in true New York style.
On the quiet Körtestraße in Kreuzberg, Café Freudberg hides behind a cake counter that is second to none: vegan cakes, homemade waffles, and breakfast with organic, regional ingredients make this small café a fixed address for all who want to eat plant-based and well.
The Waffel oder Becher on Berlin-Mitte's Spandauer Straße is well-known for great ice cream, outstanding cakes, gorgeous coffee and - of course - delicious waffles.
Shakespeare & Sons on Warschauer Straße in Friedrichshain is an English-language bookstore with its own bagel bakery: Fine Bagels hand-rolls and New York-boils its bagels. Tables are set between the shelves for browsing. In this reading café in Berlin, the next novel is usually already on the table before the bagel arrives.
Vux on Wipperstraße in Neukölln has been a purely vegan café with Brazilian roots since 2009. Cakes, cupcakes, and bagels come from their own bakery, along with açaí and passion fruit smoothies, bao buns, and gluten-free cakes. Perfect for a rainy autumn day in Berlin: hot coffee and cake just a few steps from the historic Richardplatz.
Banana Bread, Muffins, home-made cheesecake, the most diverse bagel creations matched with delicious coffee or a fresh peppermint tea - be prepared for a breakfast treat at Aunt Benny!