Image by Kyra Garske

After a long day in university or city daytrip it’s one of the best places to relax. Similar to Zoë Bar (check the Zoe Bar article) it is filled with many couches, but they are separate. That makes you feel like you are in a friend’s house.

Good for relaxing with an old friend or serious talks. The wine is awesome there and costs around 3 Euro. An Astra Beer is under 2 Euro. The staff is like the music; veeeeery laid-back and easy-going. It’s perfect for a little break between day and night. In summer they’ll open the big windows again and so you’ve the feeling of sitting outside on a couch!

The atmosphere is a bit oriental, maybe because it is located in a former Turkish culture center. Not as crowded as it is in the Schanze or in the Kiez (St. Pauli). Alternative and simple, thus great!

Bar Roosen installed security cameras, as many other bars did in St Pauli.

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Bar Roosen | Bars, Coffee & tea, Relaxing | Wine € 3.00
Paul-Roosen-Str. 28 | Sankt Pauli | +494076975926
Mon – Thu 12:00 – 02:00, Fri – Sun 12:00 – open end

Image by ZoeBar Hamburg (by: Kyra Garske)

“Dear Zoë,

how do you feel today?

I’d like to say to you, how stunning you are. You are perfect to meet friends or strangers or both and it’s like they already know each other. Always you welcomed me with open arms, no matter if I was stressed out or absolutely relaxed, there was a place for me and a smile on your face.Your drinks are cheap and groovy. Your cosy couches and the yellow-red lamp shades in the back rooms are reminiscent of my grandmother´s warm living room. About the secrets and mystics in your vault, we have to talk next time once more. The rooms are a bit shabby and rustic – but it’s honest! Let’s face it: You are the real Zoë, the authentic Zoë!

All my Love, Kyra.

PS: By the way: good choice to provide rooms with movies like “Gegen die Wand” or “Absolute Giganten“.

PSPS: I was seriously pissed seeing that you raised all prices all of a sudden without even talking to anyone. You’re on the same level as all the other places now. Please tell me why!”

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Zoë Bar | Bars, Cinemas, Coffee & tea, Relaxing | redwine € 2.60
Clemens-Schultz-Str. 96 | Sankt Pauli | +494031792323
Thu – Sat from 20:00

Image by Louise Kunth

Don’t tell Mama offers cheesecakes in diverse variations and two sizes and they are so incredibly delicious. This small café is located at the end of Paul-Roosen-Straße. When you enter it you find a very unpretentious room with a few, lovely selected furnitures and details, then you walk straight on to a glass-counter filled with all these great cakes. If you love cheese-cakes as well you really should go there and spend some afternoon hours with a coffee, a good magazine and your cake.

Last time I went there for an afternoon coffee and had this chocolate-cheese-cake – what can I say, it is amazing.

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Don’t tell Mama | Coffee & tea, Snacks | Piece of cake € 3.00
Paul-Roosen-Straße 41 | Sankt Pauli | +494038643702
Mon – Wed 08:00 – 18:00, Thu – Fri 08:00 – 19:00, Sat – Sun 10:00 – 18:00

Image by Louise Kunth

Café Mimosa is located in a beautiful part of St. Pauli, in the Clemens-Schultz Straße. It is a calm and very cute place with fine food and coffee specialities. I love to go there for breakfast. You get a selected range of cheese and everything is decorated with love and looks delicious and elegant.

Beside breakfast you get really good homemade cakes and brioches. For lunch they offer tasty snacks like toast, ciabatta with goat cheese and fig for examples, soups or one pasta dish. The interiour is very cosy with wooden tables, a dark red wall and a chandelier, but not overloaded and still decent.

They close very early in the evening so you should go there for breakfast, snack or afternoon-cake-break. For me it is a good place to work, as they offer W-Lan and it is quiet. And one thing: I adore the small homemade cookie with marmelade topping you get together with your coffee. You will know what I mean.

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Café Mimosa | Coffee & tea, Snacks | Coffee € 2.50
Clemens-Schultz-Straße 87 | Sankt Pauli | +494032037989
Tue – Sun 11:00 – 19:00