Back in 2010, the boyfriend lived in
Friedelstraße for a few months. It was a bleak and snowy winter, when cars were
locked into their parking spaces by mounds of frozen snow and staying outside
for more than ten minutes was out of the question. We spent a lot of time in
the street itself, playing pool at the corner Kneipe and trying out the few
obscure restaurants that inhabited the area.
Go to Friedelstraße now and it is
absolutely teeming with life. It helps that it's summer, of course, but that is
not the only reason. Nowadays the street is one big linked chain of
restaurants, cutesy shops and hipster hotspots. Come winter, you can café-hop
your way down the street and never even get cold.
Right at the end (from my point of view; it
could also considered the beginning) of the street, in the shadow of a
permanent Ausstellung of building works, there's Katie's Blue Cat. I imagine
this is what comes out when you put a Stockholm fika venue, a London bakery and
a 2014 Berlin hipster in a Flavour Shaker™ and shake hard: whitewashed walls, minimalist wooden benches,
high-buns-shaved-sides haircuts and scones/brownies/flat whites with foam art
on top. It fits the city like the comfortable, oversized jumpers worn by its
patrons. This is the new Berlin venue.
Katie's Blue Cat, Friedelstraße 31, 12047 Berlin, website, open Mon-Fri 8.30am-6.30pm, Sat-Sun 10am-7pm
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