Das KaffeeHaus von Frau Burkhart‏ — Restaurant in Bloom Township

Review Date: May 27th, 2023

I wouldn’t give this coffeehouse das boot.

It wouldn’t be a weekend out of town without me making plans to hit up some local coffeehouses and that’s just what Doug and I did while everyone was still sleeping the hangover away at the hotel. Honestly, I had no specific place in mind to visit. I had a list of local places. Doug lives in the area so he knows what is where. Yet we ended up at a place neither on my list nor one Doug knew about.

We rolled up around 8am to some sunshine and a quiet street. We strolled in and were greeted by some friendly baristas and a display case full of delicious-looking treats. I wasn’t in the mood for treats so after staring at the menu for longer than I should have, I ordered myself a plain iced americana and grabbed Emily a drink to bring back to the room. Doug ordered something that wasn’t coffee-related as he doesn’t drink coffee and about 10 of their Umlauts. Now, the Umlauts are not those little dots you see over letters in German words. Not this time. These are their take on the cake balls you see at pretty much any place that sells baked goods.

After we got our drinks, we quickly dipped back to our hotel and had our drinks over the complimentary hotel breakfast. Doug handed out the Umlauts as people woke up and they were in for a sweet surprise. I had a vanilla one and it was gone quicker than you could tell people what umlauts were (either the dot version or the baked version). The americana paired nicely with it, the bitter balancing out the sweet. The next day, I had a chocolate one as everyone came into our room singing Happy Birthday to me as I was trying to use my birthday wish to wish away my mild hangover. That one was less good as the chocolate frosting mixed with the chocolate cake was just toooo much chocolate for me. Younger me would’ve loved it but 36 year old me couldn’t handle it.

Circling back to the coffeehouse itself, it was fairly heavy on the German-influence if you hadn’t guessed based on everything so far. The interior was pretty much your typical coffeehouse but with a German flair to it. This is the first German-inspired place I’ve been and it was a nice change of pace from your usual coffeehouses. As for the Frau Burkhart in the name, I can only guess that’s the owner based on a quick glance at their website?

Any who, a pretty cool little stop for coffee on a blitzkrieg weekend full of...

This place is awesome. Yes, we drive from Columbus all the way out to Lithopolis for coffee, it is that good. Well, and who can resist adorable Lithopolis? We almost bought a house down the street, that is until we realized it was lopsided in all sorts of ways. But...back to the coffee.

The owners, a veteran and a German, are lovely people. They make the place, infusing it with all sorts of character, their character. Reminisces of Germany throughout, the chill of Euro electronic in the background, and unique stainglass windows.

The people that work there are pleasant and friendly and ready to please.

And lastly, the coffee of course. They have one of the few coffees in town my discerning husband's palate approves of. They worked hard to recreate the coffee they loved in Europe. I love that they don't make their coffees overly sweet. I always hate when you are constantly having to remind baristas not to oversweeten their drinks (because it is status quo at their establishment). Or worse yet, you tell them to make it half sweet, and it is still sickeningly sweet, yuck. No, they get it right without too much fuss.

Go...

It takes a LOT before I leave a poor review but after waiting around for well over 5 minutes and never getting waited on or even greeted, I walked out.

It smelled heavenly, so there's that. The seating area had students all using wifi so that's good so the only place left to sit would have been at the counter.

I was scoping this place out to bring visitors in about 6 weeks. Employees were clearly in the back or behind the mirrored wall with no interest in even checking for new customers. There needs to be a sensor at the door or at least an old school bell.

Edit to reply to the owner: this was at approx 3:50 pm on Tuesday. Lots of upbeat chatter in the back. At least 4 or 5 customers...