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Coffee, cake, china and lace: Charlottenburg's Café Kredenz
According to the owners, it resembles a tiny Viennese coffeehouse; to us, it evokes a quaint, old-fashioned English tearoom. But whatever your take on Charlottenburg's Café Kredenz, it's hard to find it anything but irresistible.
Framed lace adorns the walls, a clock ticks above a china cabinet and flowers are arranged on carefully polished antique tables.
![Cafe Kredenz, Berlin](images/vintage-berlin-cafe-kredenz-charlottenburg.jpg)
![Charlottenburg's most charming cafe? Cafe Kredenz in Kantstrasse](images/retro-berlin-cafe-kredenz-charlottenburg.jpg)
It's the kind of setting your knick-knack-loving granny would feel happily at home in, and she'd be delighted, too, with the mouthwatering array of cakes temptingly displayed behind the counter.
These award-winning confections - which include such goodies as Yoghurt and Peach Torte or Chocolate and Lime Gateau - are specially prepared by a secret source, and every bit as delicious as they look.
![English tearoom or Viennese cafe? You decide - but it's one of Berlin's loveliest retro-themed cafes](images/vintage-berlin-cafe-kredenz-interior-charlottenburg.jpg)
![Old lace, china and knick-knacks together with some of Berlin's very best cakes...](images/cafe-kredenz-charlottenburg-berlin.jpg)
Genteel, faintly twee yet genuinely lovely, Café Kredenz exudes exactly the kind vintage charm that so many other cafes strive (too) hard to reproduce.
If you find yourself in Charlottenburg, take a trip to the least-visited end of Kantstraße to savour some very special old-time nostalgia - and, of course, some equally exceptional cake.
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Café Kredenz: Kantstraße 81, 10627 Berlin
Opening hours:
Mon-Sat, 11am-6pm; Sun, noon-6pm