The Barn Café Nordbahnhof

The Barn by Nordbahnhof, built as an espresso and filter bar: eight metres of terrazzo, a travertine floor, coffee from its own roastery.

Ralf Rüller had lived in London for several years when he opened his first specialty coffee café on Auguststraße in 2010. In 2012 he started roasting himself, and today The Barn has around ten cafés in Berlin. One of them is on Invalidenstraße, near Nordbahnhof and within walking distance of the Natural History Museum, in an area full of offices, shops and design agencies.

The café is built as an espresso and filter bar. An eight-metre terrazzo bar runs through the whole room, the floor is travertine, the benches and tables raw oak, with classic Eames chairs. Behind the bar are a La Marzocco machine and a brew bar for hand filters, plus nitro coffee on tap. The regular coffees include Genesis from Yirgacheffe in Ethiopia, Atlas from Guatemala and Elemental from Brazil, plus single origins that change with the season. The kitchen makes sandwiches, cakes and fresh juices.