A café built around the second pot
Food and Tea is the cosy corner café on Marktstraße where shoppers drop their bags, visitors warm up after a tour of the Barockviertel, and locals stay for a second pot. No reservations, no fuss — just pull up a chair.
Find us
Marktstraße 12 · on the corner
Two minutes' walk from the Dom
Open
Mon–Fri 7:30–18:00
Sat 8:30–18:30 · Sun 9:30–17:00
How we got here
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The corner
The shop on the bend of Marktstraße had been a haberdashery for sixty years. We kept the counter, the tiled floor and the brass door handle.
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Opening week
We opened on a grey Tuesday with one coffee machine, four cakes and a hand-written board. Eleven people came. Nine of them came back.
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The second pot
Free hot-water top-ups started as a kindness to a regular who read all afternoon. It became the thing people tell their friends about.
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Now
Fourteen cakes on rotation, a lever machine, Danish-speaking staff on Saturdays, and a window seat that is almost never empty.
The three you'll see most
Hanna
Owner & baker
In at 5:30 to get the Pflaumenkuchen in the oven. Will absolutely tell you which cake to have.
Yusuf
Head barista
Keeps the lever machine honest and changes the brew-bar single origin every fortnight.
Lise
Weekends & tea
Grew up near Odense, looks after our Danish guests and guards the Darjeeling timer.
Small café, straightforward promises
- Roasted nearby. Our house blend travels 40 km, not 4,000, and we know the people who roast it.
- Baked today. Everything on the counter was made this morning. We'd rather sell out than freeze it.
- No upcharge for plant milk. Oat, soy and lactose-free cost the same as cow's milk. Always have.
- Room for everyone. Prams, dogs, laptops, book clubs, grandparents and toddlers — all at the same time, happily.
Who finds us, and from where
We're a corner café, so our "service area" is a walk, not a drive. Here's who tends to end up at our tables — including the steady stream of guests from Denmark who make Food and Tea their first stop.
Marktstraße & the shopping streets
Bag-drop corner by the window, prams welcome.
The Dom & cathedral square
Two minutes on foot — the closest pot of tea to the Dom.
Barockviertel
Where tour groups warm up afterwards with a Kännchen.
Altstadt offices & studios
Morning flat whites to take away, from 7:30.
Visitors from Denmark
Danish-speaking staff on Saturdays, and yes — we do hygge.
Neighbourhood regulars
Loyalty cards, name on the cup, usual order remembered.
Pull up a chair
Walk in whenever you like — or ask us to hold a corner table for a bigger group, a birthday Kaffeeklatsch or a quiet morning meeting.