Miss Päpki Cologne

Miss Päpki Cologne

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Gol from Cologne

About me I am a designer specialised in food related design. Therefore I enjoy anything that has to do with food whenever I travel but also when I explore my own hometown. A good grocery shop, the best bread, the strongest coffee, the newest restaurant? Most of the time I know where to go. In cases where I don't I help myself by asking locals or one of the Spotted by Locals apps...
""Miss Päpki" in Cologne is definitely a stereotype cafe. It reminds me very strongly of an old royal English tea house, but it's made with lots of passion."

Miss Päpki is definitely a stereotype café. Maybe it is the style of the antique white furniture or the extraordinary gold wallpaper that reminds me of an old royal English tea house. Right in the centre of the Belgian quarter ("Belgisches Viertel"), the "Brüssler Platz" the most popular area of Cologne, in an old building with super high ceilings, Miss Päpki is decorated all in white and pastel colored furniture that create a feminine and elegant ambient in which men will also feel comfortable.

When Claudia Papke first opened Miss Päpki I entered her café and was surprised at how perfect and well thought out everything was. I started to talk to her and found out that she had planned to open a café for a long time. The interior and original vintage crockery have been collected over many years, long before the opening and was stored in Claudia Papke's parents' attic. The name Miss Päpkie is based on the way her name is pronounced in America where she's worked and lived for a few years.

Miss Päpki has different kinds of breakfast on antique étagères. For lunch, dinner or a snack in between there are salads and soups and various cakes at any time. My all-time favorite is the "Rotkäppchen"(Little Red Riding Hood) Cake.

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About me I am a designer specialised in food related design. Therefore I enjoy anything that has to do with food whenever I travel but also when I explore my own hometown. A good grocery shop, the best bread, the strongest coffee, the newest restaurant? Most of the time I know where to go. In cases where I don't I help myself by asking locals or one of the Spotted by Locals apps. Besides cooking and baking (of course!) I love being a host, both: for dinners and for couchsurfers, friends, tourists. I love speaking other languages that I learned during the times I...

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