Kajumi

prenzlauer berg has no shortage of places calling themselves specialty, but kajumi on dunckerstraße sits in a different category. the roasting happens here, which means what ends up in your cup hasn't traveled far from where the decisions were made about how it should taste. that kind of short chain between roaster and drinker is rarer than it should be, even in a city that takes coffee seriously. you get a sense, fairly quickly, that this is a place where the sourcing and the roasting are the point, not the backdrop. regulars here tend to know what they want and come back for it consistently, which says something about reliability that marketing can't manufacture. dunckerstraße 73 on a weekday morning is a good place to start.