KEIT Friedrichshain

Sourdough bakery with its bakehouse on Grünberger Straße: organic loaves from ingredients sourced within 100 km, plus sourdough courses.

Grünberger Straße is home not only to a KEIT shop but also to its bakehouse. Thanos Petalotis and Kolja Orzeszko, who previously worked at Adidas, founded the bakery in 2019. The name stands for "Konsequent Brot", consistent bread, and is also drawn from three German words: Nachhaltigkeit, Verlässlichkeit and Dankbarkeit, sustainability, reliability and gratitude.

Consistent here mainly means: less, but done right. KEIT bakes sourdough loaves from ingredients sourced within 100 kilometres of Berlin, and the breads are organic. The shelves hold wheat, spelt, mixed, rye and seeded loaves, plus a milk bread made with natural sourdough, baguette, an apple-walnut baguette and pretzels. There are also bread chips in three flavours.

If you want to start your own sourdough, you can take a course in the Friedrichshain bakehouse: three hours, no more than eight people, a small bread supper at the end and a starter kit with proofing basket to take home. KEIT has a second shop on Goltzstraße in Schöneberg.