Goldhahn und Sampson Charlottenburg — Specialty Store in Charlottenburg, Berlin
Goldhahn und Sampson Charlottenburg keeps a cookbook wall that pulls you in before the cheese counter does, on Wilmersdorfer Straße in Charlottenburg.
A delicatessen with a book section
Goldhahn und Sampson Charlottenburg is a specialty shop on Wilmersdorfer Straße in Charlottenburg, with cookbook shelves as much the draw as the food. There is a cheese counter, coffee with cake inside or out, and a wine range; it opens at 8 am Monday to Saturday and is closed on Sunday.
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Cookbooks, cheese and a coffee at the front
Goldhahn und Sampson Charlottenburg is an independent delicatessen on Wilmersdorfer Straße, and the first thing you notice inside is how much of the room is given over to cookbooks. The shelves run alongside the food rather than tucked in a corner, and plenty of people come in mainly to leaf through them.
The food side earns its keep at the cheese counter, the part of the delicatessen to linger over, with a broad wine range beside it for a bottle to take home. Coffee works two ways: a cup in the seating area, or beans to carry away. Cake with the coffee and pastries to go are the easy stop-in purchases, and chocolates make a small thing to pick up on the way out.
How it works is simple. You browse the shelves and the counters, order at the coffee side, and sit inside or out with your cup. Cooking classes run in the back room, hands-on and built around a theme, and the shop also stocks unusual ingredients that are hard to find elsewhere plus kitchen and hostess gifts, which is why it fills up around the holidays.
Prices sit on the higher side for the ingredients, and the shop gets cramped once it is full.
What it suits is slow browsing rather than a quick grocery run: you come for the books, stay for the cheese and a coffee, and leave with a bottle and a bar of chocolate. It opens at 8 am every day except Sunday, when it stays closed.
What to look for
Cookbooks
A large book section runs alongside the food, and it is the reason plenty of people come in at all.
Cheese counter
The delicatessen counter is where to linger, with cheese as the part worth your attention.
Coffee
Fresh coffee is served in the seating area inside and out, and the beans are sold to take home.
The pick list
What to bring home
Cookbooks
A large book section runs alongside the food, big enough that a visit can be mostly browsing.
Coffee
Fresh coffee works both ways here: a cup in the seating area inside or out, or beans to take home.
Cheese counter
The cheese is the part of the delicatessen worth lingering over, and the counter is where to look first.
Pastries and cake
Cake with coffee and pastries to go are the reliable reasons to stop in.
Wine selection
A broad wine range is among the shop's strong suits, so it is a good place to pick up a bottle.
Who is this for
Anyone who cooks and reads about cooking will lose time at the cookbook wall before reaching the cheese counter. A traveler who wants a proper coffee and a slice of cake with a seat inside or out gets both here without turning it into a meal. Holiday shoppers after kitchen and hostess gifts will find the shelves stocked for exactly that.
If you want a dedicated fresh seafood counter and Mediterranean ingredients instead of books and cheese, Mitte Meer Charlottenburg on Kantstraße is the nearby stop for that.
The verdict
It is a browsing delicatessen rather than a place to do a full shop cheaply, with higher ingredient prices and a room that gets cramped when busy, so it suits anyone who comes for the cookbooks, the cheese counter and a coffee rather than a fast basket.
Keep exploring nearby
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