Chipperfield Kantine

The canteen of David Chipperfield Architects: daily changing vegetable-led lunch from organic produce, exposed concrete and a plane-tree courtyard.

The canteen belongs to the Berlin campus of David Chipperfield Architects on Joachimstraße. Not only the exposed-concrete building but also the interior, crockery and cutlery were designed by Chipperfield and his team. At lunchtime it is open to everyone.

The cooking is modern vegetable-led food, with soups and salads made from fresh organic regional produce, and the menu changes daily. On Wednesdays a meat dish is added, on Fridays fish. Wonky organic vegetables come from Querfeld, the bread from Märkisches Landbrot, the meat from Gut Kerkow. On warm days you sit in the shade of the plane trees in the courtyard, and outside lunch hours there is coffee, croissants and homemade cake.