FRIEDL Rösterei & Kekse

berlin has more specialty roasters per square kilometre than almost any other european city right now, and the competition keeps standards brutally honest. that's the context in which friedl rösterei & kekse on pappelallee 35 has built a genuinely loyal following in prenzlauer berg. the combination of roasting and biscuits, kekse being german for cookies, is unusual enough to signal that someone here has a point of view, not just a business plan. if you're spending a morning in that part of the city, pappelallee is already a good reason to be there, and friedl sharpens that reason considerably. the locals who return regularly aren't doing so out of habit alone. a mid-morning filter on pappelallee, with whatever's come off the roaster recently, is a solid place to start.