Plagwitz
€2.80/cup
Cocoa nib, walnut, cane sugar
- Origin
- House blend
- Served as
- Espresso
Sour cherriesand strong coffee.
A cafe and cake shop in west Leipzig. We bake four cakes every morning, and Rösterei Kammgarn roasts the coffee three streets away.
Baked fresh every morningCoffee and cake from 14:00Closed MondaysWhole cakes to orderOpen from 8:00
Four coffees.Nothing else on the board.
All four are roasted by Rösterei Kammgarn, three streets away. We do not roast, and we do not pretend to.
Nyeri
€4.20/cup
Blackcurrant, tomato leaf, cane sugar
- Origin
- Kenya, Nyeri
- Served as
- Filter
Guji
€4.40/cup
Blood orange, jasmine, brown sugar
- Origin
- Ethiopia, Guji
- Served as
- Filter and espresso
Cajamarca
€2.80/cup
Baked apple, almond, cola
- Origin
- Peru, Cajamarca
- Served as
- Filter and espresso
- Note
- Decaf
All four are sold as whole bean in 250g bags at the counter as well. Ask about the coffee of the week.
The cabinet
Four cakes, baked every morning.
No supplier, nothing from a freezer, no improver. Esther is in the kitchen at half past four, the first cut is at eight, and whatever has gone by the evening has gone.
€4.90
Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte
Sour cherries, kirsch, cream and shaved chocolate. Black Forest, our own shape, and the reason this page is red rather than beige.
See details€3.80
Bienenstich
Caramelised almonds and honey on top, vanilla cream through the middle. A bee sting cake, and by mid afternoon it is usually gone.
See details€3.60
Käsekuchen
Quark, eggs, sugar. No cream and no custard powder, because it should taste of quark and not of vanilla.
See details€3.40
Seasonal
Pflaumenstreusel
Plum and streusel, only while the plums are worth using, so August to October. After that, better not to ask.
See detailsWhat else ison the counter.
The cakes are why most people come. The rest is what fits alongside them, and not much fits alongside them.
Esther Wieczorek, pastry kitchen
Worth knowing
- Milk
- Whole, oat, soy. No surcharge, ever.
- Coffee and cake
- From 14:00. Sundays are busy and we cannot help that.
- Whole cakes
- To order, two days ahead, by email or on the phone.
- Monday
- Closed. The kitchen too.
At the counter
- Flat white
- €3.90
- Double espresso, little milk, no syrup.
- Cappuccino
- €3.60
- The small cup, with foam and without a dome.
- Milchkaffee
- €4.20
- The large cup, for the afternoon.
- Hot chocolate
- €3.80
- Real chocolate melted down, not powder.
- Pot of tea
- €3.40
- Four kinds, all loose leaf, all enough for two cups.
- Butterkuchen tray bake
- €2.20
- The piece for in between, when a whole slice of cake is too much.
Prices are per slice or per cup. We take card from the first euro.
The room
Twenty two seats and one long window.
The counter faces the room, so you can see what has just been cut and ask what is in it. The kitchen is directly behind it, and in the morning the whole room smells of it.
Feldmühlenweg 14
04229 LeipzigOpen in maps
04229 LeipzigOpen in maps
Regulars
The peoplewho keep coming back.
We asked three of them why, actually. This is what they said.
“I spent three years looking for a cheesecake made without custard powder. It is in this cabinet every day.”
Katrin LöfflerBookseller, Buchhandlung am Felsenkeller “There are four of us in the workshop and we fetch four espressos every morning. That says most of it.”
Halil SarıkayaWorkshop manager, Radhaus Plagwitz “At three on a Sunday there is not a free seat, and that is exactly why we come anyway.”
Miriam BohnenkampArchitect, Büro Weißenfels
Come in,or write to us.
Whole cakes to order, a celebration, or a question about what is in something. It all reaches the same inbox and we answer it ourselves.
Opening hours
- Tuesday to Friday
- 08:00–18:00
- Saturday
- 09:00–18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00–18:00
- Monday
- Closed