The Little Café — Restaurant in Billerbeck

Drinks: Usually, I do not like to drink coffee BUT - and here's a really big BUT- the coffee at "Das kleine Café" is truly, no exaggeration, the best coffee I have ever tasted ... in my life! A big ~400/450ml pot of dark, full and lovely tasting coffee costs 2,50€ which is definitely a fair price for this quality. There is also a smaller cup size! And plenty of coffee, tea and cocoa related beverages. In summer they sell iced coffee and there are also a few soda and water options available (which I have not tried). If you ask, they give you complementary water to your coffee.

Food - sweet: The café sells beautiful and elaborate cakes and pies. They all look delicious. So far, I have only tried their "Strachelbeerbaiser" (gooseberry merringue) which is really good! Crispy and creamy, fruity and delicious.

Food - savoury: They also offer a breakfast buffet (Unfortunately not a Jimmy Buffet :P ... I'm sorry to all comedy-country fans) on Saturdays and Sundays which I did not know before today. I went into their store and asked for a small item on the breakfast menu. They said they could not prepare it due to the previous buffet. They were really kind and offered to prepare me a veggy and mozzarella based breakfast instead including a huge pot of coffee for only a few bucks. It was really delicious and they were amazingly friendly! The food was absolutely fresh!

Service: The two waitresses I encountered were really kind and helpful! They also did not mind when I spontaneously wanted to switch seats from outside to inside (due to many wasps outside) and are genereally really quick and friendly. You can ask questions regarding the menue and I have the impression that they are really family friendly, too.

Ambience - Inside: "Das kleine Café" means "the small café" in German. Accordingly, it has a really cozy and small-town-esque ambience. It is really well temperatured: If you visit in winter, it is warm, but not too warm and the soft lights are really inviting. If you visit on a boiling hot summer's day the room is a positive suprise: It is comfortably chill. The decoration is very down-to-earth and grandmotherly (in a good way!). There are also really cute little fresh flowers on the tables, self-made looking water color paintings on the walls and dark wooden chairs.

Group/Family tipp: there are a few games and drawing utensils on the right window sill :)

Ambience - outside: You can sit on two sides: one facing the passage to the Ludgerus Dom, the other one facing a churchy yard filled with linden trees. Be careful though, the chairs wobble a lot on the cobble stone :D The seats are polstered, by the way.

That's it! Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Additional hint: Wheelchair availability: This one's a small manko: There are two steps in order to enter the café, but there are some options available: The tables outside are really nice on summer days everyone is really helpful and friendly, surely they will help you up the stairs also, once inside the toilets offer helpful bars and much space and the basin is an...

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Wir sind fast schon Stammkunden, gestern waren wir 12:30 da. Leider hatten sich 25 holländische Biker zum Frühstück eingefunden. Also Atmosphäre zum draußen sitzen tot. Das größere Problem war aber der Kuchen, an sich zwar keine Gourmet-Qualität, aber immer "essbar". Dieses Mal bestellte ich einen gebackenen Käsekuchen, war das Schlechteste was ich je gegessen habe, bestand aus Vanillecreme und Mandarinen. Die liebe junge Bedienung erklärte dann, dass es kein Käsekuchen war. Zusätzlich war der Kaffee Creme mit Milch Schaum gemacht, nach Reklamation kam der richtige Kaffee Creme. Für dem "Käsekuchen" und den falschen Kaffee je ein Punkt Anzug. Bitte nicht auf den Lorbeeren...

It was my first time in a German Café and I was impressed. They had a lot of types of cakes and pastry and it was delicious! I really liked it. It was a bit expensive though, but the portions were...