Oberholz Café

Oberholz Café is an open, well-lit café, and my study place of choice for weekends. Though it's far east, it’s perfect for weekends cause if you go to brunch at Warschauer, you’ll already be in the area. It also has free wi-fi, a requirement for any café that I study at. They make the best Apple Kuchen (it has the crumbs on top and is absolutely delicious); the cheesecake on the other hand, is very dry, so I wouldn't recommend it. I always order the Latte Macchiatto here then go upstairs and find a place to study. It’s a very popular study place. If you go often enough you’ll notice the same people come every time. Just like other good study cafes, they’ll never kick you out. And for some reason, everyone at this particular café has Mac notebooks. It's just a random observation, but if you have a Mac like me too, you’ll be among good company. Check out all the Macs!


It's at the Rosenthaler Platz S-Bahn stop and the address is Rosenthaler Str. 72A.

Bilder Book Café

Bilder Book Café is open from 9am until at least midnight every night, and sometimes even until 1AM. It has free wireless and the best thing is that you can stay as long as you want despite how much you’ve ordered or if you’re done drinking/eating (they never kick you out), which makes it a great place to study. It’s very Berlin, with its very unique, noncommercial café atmosphere. It’s like you’re in a living room, with plenty of sofa chairs, bookshelves, house lamps, rugs, a piano, and actual dining tables. My friend Cristina was obsessed with the soups. And my friend Lindsay was so in love with the place and went so often that the waiters there already knew her order before she had to say anything. As for me, my usual order was a Latte Macchiatto and a scoop of ice cream (for only 1 Euro); it made all those nights cramming for my E40 psets and studying German vocab much more bearable--definitely one of our favorite cafes. To get here, just get off at the Eisenacher Strasse stop on the U7 and it's at Akazienstrasse 28.