Anna Blume is on Kollwitzstraße in Prenzlauer Berg — a florist and café that has occupied the same corner shopfront for long enough that the neighbourhood has arranged itself partly around it. The flowers are in the window and on the counter; the café tables are inside; the distinction between the two operations is not always clear, which is part of the atmosphere. The breakfast at Anna Blume is a specific institution: the buffet is elaborate — a dozen jams, several bread types, the smoked fish, the soft-boiled egg — and it is served until mid-afternoon, which means Sunday lunch is breakfast here, and has been for the people who have been coming since it opened. The Kollwitzplatz market is around the corner on Saturdays; the neighbourhood is most itself on Thursday mornings when neither tourists nor the weekend logic is present.
Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, Germany