Caviar and Turkish eggs: Berlin does breakfast

Brunch in Berlin often means a buffet, prosecco, avocado and an hour’s wait. The five places here do it differently. You order from a short menu, and the kitchen takes breakfast as seriously as dinner.

Father Carpenter – the courtyard on Münzstraße

Mitte · CaféFather CarpenterOn the map

Kresten Thøgersen learned the coffee trade in Melbourne. In January 2015 he started Father Carpenter as a pop-up in a hidden courtyard on Münzstraße; within a year it became a permanent café, and since 2023 it has roasted its own coffee. The menu is short: Turkish eggs with Greek yoghurt and harissa butter, spinach and feta shakshuka, French toast with roasted hazelnuts.

The guests’ favourite is the F.C. Benedict with pulled pork in chipotle, with the date pudding with butterscotch to finish. If you take coffee seriously, share the Geisha flight for two: three coffees, two glasses each. No split bills at weekends.

Distrikt – breakfast all day

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Sophie Hardy and Hannes Haake opened Distrikt on Bergstraße in 2014. Breakfast and lunch are served all day: house granola with strawberry-rhubarb shrub, avocado on sourdough with charred broccoli and peanut chilli crunch, shakshuka, a breakfast sandwich with mortadella and sriracha mayo on brioche. The French toast with berry compote, toasted almonds and ricotta is not to be skipped.

Bar Basta – brunch at Casa Camper

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In 2024 Arash Ghassemi and Cäcilia Baldszus ran the pop-up Lobb at Casa Camper on Weinmeisterstraße; afterwards their Bar Basta moved permanently into the hotel’s ground floor. At the Mixology Bar Awards, Ghassemi was named host of the year. On weekday evenings there is market cooking; at weekends, New York-style brunch. The dish brunch revolves around is the O.D.B., the “Ol’ Dirty Basta”. Brunch is on Saturdays and Sundays from 10 am; in summer the windows onto the street stand open.

Frühstück 3000 – fine dining in breakfast form

Schöneberg · CaféFrühstück 3000On the map

On Bülowstraße, Maximiliane Wetzel, Lukas Mann and Martin Pöller cook, all three formerly of luxury hotels and top restaurants. Their breakfast sets out to break the German routine: steak tartare with cured egg yolk and wasabi peanuts, Chicken 3000 with crispy chicken on a cheddar waffle and chilli-bacon caramel, mushroom lángos. There is now a Frühstück 3000 in Kreuzberg too. For a breakfast to remember there are eggs Benedict with house-cured salmon and caviar, and on the sweet side the crème brûlée French toast with rhubarb ragout. At weekends a booking is worth it.

Venue Breakfast – breakfast on small plates in Steglitz

Steglitz · BakeryVenue BreakfastOn the map

Venue started on Weserstraße in Neukölln in November 2018; the second branch is on Grunewaldstraße in Steglitz, a few steps from Schloßstraße. You build your own breakfast from five categories, from greens to eggs and dairy to meat, fish and pastry, and each dish comes on its own small plate. The most fun is combining several small plates and working your way through the menu. At lunch there are small dishes and cakes.