The Barn Café Rosenthaler Platz

The Barn at Rosenthaler Platz, on car-free Weinbergsweg: an open bar, a reading room, 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 at the bottom of Weinbergsweg, where it meets Rosenthaler Platz. The square was once the city gate to the Scheunenviertel, and Weinbergsweg is car-free and lined with old trees.

At the front you sit at the open bar and watch the hand filters being brewed, and big sash windows bring the street inside. At the back is a quiet reading room. A Berlin carpenter built the tables and chairs to the café's own design. Behind the bar are a La Marzocco machine and a brew bar. The coffee comes from the house roastery, from the regular blends to changing single origins, with pastries alongside.