The 10 best cafés in Stuttgart
A real piece of vintage, the kind you usually find in Italy. Seating in the narrow tube under the vaulted ceiling is very limited, but many prefer to enjoy their coffee with pasticcini or tramezzini standing up anyway. Good drinks and DJ time on Saturday nights at Espresso Klub.
In the new and attractively designed Natan in the Leonhardsviertel, guests automatically do a good turn because the proceeds of the non-profit café go to charity. A selection of sandwiches, bowls, energy balls, and good drinks. The vegan offering is much more than just coffee and cake.
Whether on wooden benches or at raised tables on stools, you can sit comfortably and enjoy homemade cake, vegetarian snacks, spreads and homemade jams, to go with the wood-fired bread. Coffee from regional roasters. Events include tea ceremonies and gin tastings.
Inside with open brickwork or out in the courtyard, there are coffee specialities from the Stuttgart roastery Mokuska, extensive breakfasts with the already legendary Gustav étagère, and later in the day bowls, pasta, and tarte flambée. The beer and wine selection is also okay.
The coffee comes from a regional roastery, the cakes - including chocolate cake with a liquid center - are homemade from high-quality ingredients, without wheat flour and sometimes served warm. The young boss has since opened a second location, both very urban (Wilhelmsplatz and Schwabstraße), but with charm.
Modern ambience in a historical setting; since the Middle Ages the Dürnitz was a common room in the Old Castle. In the newly designed foyer of the State Museum, or in summer in the Renaissance courtyard, there is a good selection of cakes to go with coffee and Kessler sparkling wine. Quiches and onion tart can be accompanied by beer, wine or soft drinks.
It is above all the location, the location and the location with the best view of the Schlossplatz, whether indoors in the spacious and modernised ambience of the traditional house, or outside under and in front of the arcades. Breakfast, tartlets and Belgian waffles (savoury too) until the evening are especially popular with tourists.
Homemade Maultaschen and potato salad are just as popular as orange sour cream cake or the Stöckle special cake with nougat and meringue. Despite the new owner and redesigned rooms, much of the all-round service from breakfast into the evening remains the same, even outside on the street.
If you have high expectations for your coffee, here in the West it is roasted in-house. In the vintage style with art on the walls. There is also good all-day breakfast (until 6 pm), from muesli to egg dishes, as well as a small lunch table with changing dishes, and of course a counter with homemade cake.
Samuel Beckett had already written about the "stimulus of nothingness" in Neckarstraße. But that was a long time ago, and inside the café it looks really nice. There is good coffee - whether revived filter culture or, newfangled Flat White. Also cakes (moist carrot cake) and tasty avocado bread.