A few years ago …
… a cup of coffee was nothing more than a delivery truck for caffeine. It didn’t really matter what it tasted like, it just had to wake you up in the morning or get you through a long afternoon. But the times have changed. Today every single step of the manufacturing process is important for a perfect cup of coffee and is therefore taken very seriously by us.
For us, this begins with the selection and purchase of our specialty coffees and the handshake with the coffee farmer right on his or her farm. When it comes to purchasing raw coffee, we go above the usual fair trade prices – because we view coffee farmers as partners on an equal footing and we always treat them with respect. For their efforts in planting, harvesting and processing exceptional specialty coffee and the focus on quality and sustainability, we pay prices many times higher than the usual market or fair trade prices. Also, we don’t discuss and we don’t haggle – we pay what the producers expect for their work.
All the coffee that we cannot buy on location, we get from friends and from befriended dealers which we know and which we can trust.
We stand at the end of the production chain and its history and our goal is to roast clean, sweet and balanced specialty coffees with a unique character as a counterpart to large industrial roasters.
FIRSTCRACK
Roasters & Café Pakolat
Coffee Roastery & Cake Manufacture
Our specialty coffee roastery has been at home here in the heart of Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg since 2010. Take a little break from the hustle and bustle of the big city, enjoy the finest hand-made cakes and pies from our bakery and of course buy your favorite specialty coffee.
Raumerstrasse 40
10437 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 447 938 83
Times:
Mon-Sun 11.00am – 6.00pm
FIRSTCRACK
Coffee, Tea & Fine Chocolates
Get our hand-roasted specialty coffees, many of the world’s best chocolates and other coffee-related goodies in our small shop on Senefelderstraße.
Senefelder Straße 1a
10437 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 440 335 66
Times:
Mon, Tue: 11.00am – 6.00pm
Wednesday: Closed
Thu-Sat: 11.00am – 6.00pm
FIRSTCRACK
Coffee & Cake
Eberswalde
Right in Eberswalde’s “hallway”, the Eisenbahnstrasse, you’ll find our Brandenburg branch. In a visually exciting break in style with our Berlin shops it is all about outstanding specialty coffees, delicious tarts and a lot of coffee equipment, from Eureka grinders to Moccamaster machines.
Eisenbahnstrasse 21
16225 Eberswalde
Times:
Mon, Tue: 11.00am – 6.00pm
Wednesday: Closed
Thu-Sun: 11.00am – 6.00pm