Bewertungen Chapter One Coffee Berlin

One of Berlin's best specialty coffee shops --must visit! They are especially strong with brews (siphon and V60), always having 4-5 different single-origin coffees for tasting. Note that seating inside and outside is very limited, and there is no toilet.

I think this is a cool hipster coffee place with nice staff and quality coffee. Prices are good and seating is ok. I came here because it was marked as one of Berlin's best coffee places.

Atmosphere: 5 Service: n/a Drink: 5 Pastry: 3 My Pick: filter coffee croissant with banana cream Extra: -tiny coffee shops with very few seats -my favorite coffee place in this area Will I come back again? for sure!

This is a fabulous coffee house. If you don't speak German that's fine, they speak perfect English. The selection of roasts is phenomenal and the espresso is perfect, bold and strong. There isn't a lot of room to sit inside, but most people take out anyway so the sitting room that is there is generally open. They also have a great selection of Danishes and croissants. Very fresh and soft. Not to mention the guy who served me my latte did a lovely design in the foam (it's something small, but definitely a lovely touch :)).

Really good coffee and nicely done out inside. People working there were also very friendly.

A very nice little cafe which focuses specifically coffee. The best coffee I've tried in Berlin.

Friendly baristas, delicious coffee brewed in a variety of ways, lovely latte art, sandwiches and pastries. Small shop, chill vibe and hip decor. Not a great spot for settling in to work with your laptop. A better place to grab a flat white with a friend.

Berlin's a city where the quality of coffee perches at two extremes: you can get a cappuccino with a push of a button in many quick-stop bakeries or can enjoy a (quite dark) espresso in cafés that take their coffee more seriously, but without much wider variation and with filter coffee being an endangered species. i think this is changing, certainly with the rise of some really high-quality small cafés and roasters, where the focus rests squarely on the COFFEE. (e.g. Five Elephant, Double Eye, The Barn, No Fire No Glory...). the newbie to my list of favorites is Chapter One Coffee. this little shop's location --on a shady residential street, just a short walk from the bustle of the u7 on Gneisenaustrasse and the Marheineke Markthalle-- is really fantastically suited to taking a break and enjoying a good cup of coffee. you get the impression they're still sorting out their layout - the stools on the sidewalk are simple and the spots for lingering inside are mostly counters on the walls, except for a cozy+covetable windowseat (see some pics here: http://www.specialtycoffee.nl/nieuws/recent/artikel/728/chapter-1-new-coffee-hot-spot-in-berlin/). this doesn't bother me one bit - the sparse interior, with lovely weathered floor tiling and classic Werkstattlampen, gave me the feeling of being in a friend's kitchen and drew me to linger at the counter, like I would when a friend is cooking.... ...and maybe this is the point: front and center on the wooden counter is a Bonmac Hikari coffee siphon, with a trio of brewing pots looking a bit like a Buck Rogers chemistry set, especially when the heating elements are glowing. this vacuum technique --using water vapor to drive the brewing of a really pristine cup of coffee-- may sound a bit foreign and that's because, at this point, Chapter One is the sole coffeebar in Germany that has such a device. this technique is all-the-rage in San Francisco now, where i feel it's actually gone a bit wrong - people have gotten so locked in the *idea* of specialty brewing that price and snobbery have in some cases gotten out of hand. this couldn't be more saddening, since siphoning coffee really does make a difference to the taste...and making this technique accessible is where Chapter One shines. all the beverages, from the usual run of espresso drinks to filter coffee to the siphon coffees, will take nearly the same time to make and run you about the same price. the owners, Nora and Björn, are excited to not only make damn good, locally-sourced coffee (mostly from small roasters around Germany), but also to teach their patrons to get more out of their cup-o-joe (if they're interested). this extends to their future goal for public coffee events, ranging from cuppings to lectures to brew trainings. there are afew tasty morsels at the counter --yummy muesli cookies made by Nora's mom, shortbread, and franzbrötchen from a small Hamburg bakery-- with simple sandwiches planned for down the road (e.g. ham+cheese from the owner's relatives, on homemade bread). for now, though, the focus is --happily-- on the brew.

Felt like we were back in Brooklyn when we visited Chapter One. Coffee was great and the pastries weren't bad either (though there were lots of bees flying around them - bees seemed to be pretty omnipresent in Berlin though). This cafe is definitely not ideal if you're looking for a place to sit with your laptop and do work all day as the seating space is limited to the window seat. We ended up sitting outside on the makeshift benches they had set up with everyone else who was getting coffee. Was a lovely little breakfast.

Der Kaffee ist sehr lecker und schöne location. Sehr charmant und Zeitgemäß.

Kleines Speciality Coffee Local mit toller Einrichtung und hervorragendem Kaffee!