The Barn Café Sony Center

The Barn in the former Sony Center facing the Tiergarten: a nine-metre terrazzo bar, a brew bar, 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 in the former Sony Center, Helmut Jahn's building at Potsdamer Platz, on the north side facing the Tiergarten.

The fit-out picks up the light glass architecture of the building. The bar is nine metres of terrazzo, metal shelving contrasts with seating in raw oak, and there are more seats outside. 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, vegan options included, and you can take the beans home.