Saturday, nine in the morning. Mitte is still asleep and it’s the best time to have breakfast by yourself at Barcomi’s. You can sit in the sun, have a salmon bagel, read the newspaper and drink some coffee in peace. The rush comes later, when you’re about ready to order a piece of cake to take home. Their selection is huge: everything from apple pie, carrot cake, cheesecake to chocolate marble cake. Before Cynthia Barcomi started baking, she actually wanted to become a dancer, but instead studied drama and philosophy. When Starbucks was still a foreign name in Germany, she decided that drama and brooding over theories are not her thing. So Barcomi opend her first café in 1994 and three years later a second one. She baked muffins and served brownies; and so she does to this day. Additionally she writes cookbooks, roasts her own coffee and has developed her own fine aluminum bakeware line. If you want to pull one of her sweet creations out of the oven, drop by either in the shop or online. (Text: Laura Storfner / Photos: Barcomi’s)
Barcomi’s Deli, Sophie-Gips-Höfe, 2nd courtyard, Sophienstr.21, 10178 Berlin-Mitte; map
Mon-Sat 9-21h, Sun 10-21h
