Sweets

In Prenzlauer Berg, the ice cream patisserie Hokey Pokey stands for artisanal gelato at patisserie level: Founder Niko Robert, former pastry chef at the Ritz Carlton, transforms the finest ingredients into ice cream flavors rarely found elsewhere in Berlin.

With the "world's largest chocolate house," Rausch Chocolatier delights sweets lovers right at Gendarmenmarkt.

Cookies, gingerbread, and chocolate directly from the manufacturer: The Bahlsen factory outlet in Tempelhof is Berlin's most popular destination for sweet tooths with a knack for bargains. If you're looking for Leibniz butter biscuits by the kilo or Pick-Up bars by the box, this is the place for you.

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.

Crêperie Melt is a tiny French café in Berlin Friedrichshain, known for its savory buckwheat galettes, sweet crêpes, and aromatic coffee. Quiches, omelettes, macarons, freshly squeezed orange juice, and coffee specialties complete the menu.

In Reuterkiez, where Neukölln meets Kreuzberg, behind an inconspicuous facade, lies Germany's only two-star restaurant that bases its entire culinary concept on the world of patisserie. Coda breaks with everything you thought you knew about menu sequences, serving tasting menus where sweetness, umami, and acidity are treated as equals.

The Suzette of Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg serves extra-tasty sweet crêpes and hearty galette made of buckwheat flower.

Located in the heart of Prenzlauer Berg, Koll'garten has been offering 16 cozy seats for crêpe fans since June 2025. Whether sweet or savory, here you can enjoy fresh crêpes, galettes, and waffles – in winter also with mulled wine and ice cream.

The Crêpestation in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg offers fresh and tasty crêpes preparing them in the Japanese way. The Japanese crêpes were invented in the hip Tokyo district of Harajuku in the 1990s.

Hazelnut cookies with nutmeg and cinnamon, pralines with passion fruit, coconut truffles or raspberry are a dream for all gourmet sweet tooths!

Wonder Waffel is known for its sweet specialties and has already opened branches all over Germany. The original branch in Berlin-Kreuzberg is a place you have to visit!

For fans of Belgian and French specialities like waffles, crêpes and coffee creations, the Cassonade on Berlin-Kreuzberg's Oranienstraße is the right point of call.

Anyone who loves Knoppers, Toffifee, and Werther's Original should visit the Storck factory outlet in Reinickendorf. Directly at the family company's Berlin production site, popular confectionery classics are available at attractive prices, supplemented by seasonal specialties.

Anyone who believes real Berlin marzipan comes from Lübeck will be proven wrong in Britz. In the Neukölln district, Lemke's Lädchen is hidden away, the factory outlet of one of Germany's oldest confectionery producers, where marzipan, nougat, and nut purees go over the counter directly from the manufacturer at wholesale prices.

On Karl-Marx-Straße in Neukölln, Nutela Rosé serves crepes, waffles, and mini-pancakes with an opulent variety of chocolate. This chocolate café combines oriental ingredients like Arabic Qishta and pistachio cream with Belgian chocolate and fresh fruits to create a sweet world of its own.

Berlin's first ice cream patisserie comes from Prenzlauer Berg: Founder Niko Robert, former patissier at the Ritz-Carlton, creates handmade trend ice cream at dessert level at Hokey Pokey. Without powders, without ready-mixes, but with Valrhona chocolate, Sicilian pistachios, and caramel shards.

Creplala is located on Kantstraße in Berlin-Charlottenburg and offers a wide selection of delicious crêpes and galettes for every taste.

In Pankow's Florakiez, where sparrows sing above the knotweed hedge, Cathé Fleur awaits with over 400 types of tea, hand-blended own creations, and a confiserie that turns your visit into a small journey of indulgence.

For over 100 years, the chocolate manufactory in Wilmersdorf has stood for artisanal Berlin chocolate culture: dark, intensely flavored recipes, a listed Bauhaus interior, and a family spirit that can still be felt in every bar today.

Berlin's oldest praline manufacturer opens its factory doors in Reinickendorf: Those who shop at the Sawade factory outlet receive handmade truffles and praline treasures directly from production, at prices significantly lower than those in Berlin's retail stores.

In a small backyard sweets manufacturer Bonbonmacherei Kolbe & Stecher produces sweets like they used to 100 years ago.

A good hot cup of tea is beneficial for a cold, especially when you can discover fragrant new varieties, like at the specialty tea shop Cathé Fleur in Pankow.

Broken chocolate and pralines infused with essential oils like 100% pure rose oil are the specialties of Esther Kurtz at Estrellas Chocolaterie. To develop the different varieties, she specifically consulted an aromatherapist.

In Potsdam-Babelsberg, right next to Filmpark, you'll find a sweet kind of food outlet: Katjes operates its glass candy factory here, complete with an attached factory outlet. If you want to buy fruit gums, licorice, and Ahoj-Brause at factory prices and watch the production live, this is the place to be.

Cult-status vegan donuts: Brammibal's Donuts once started at Maybachufer in Neukölln and now operates over a dozen branches in Berlin. The flavors change monthly, and the demand remains consistently high.