First enjoy the latest underground exhibition at KIT (Kunst im Tunnel) and then sip at a cocktail or cappuccino in a café overlooking the Rhine. Naturally, you can do the latter without the former. The KIT Cafe’s menu ranges from fresh tapas to bruschetta and sandwiches, as well as home-made cakes. There are even …

Welcome to the coffee experts in Düsseldorf! In summer especially, the relaxed ambience draws people over to enjoy a gourmet coffee on the terrace. The breakfast menu invites you to …

This appealing pub with its atmospheric courtyard is full of antiquated charm. A down-to-earth place, cold beers, tasty coffee and little snacks such as Fortuna rolls or cheese and serrano ham panini, pleasant service, a good mix of customers. Go in, switch …

A colorful, idiosyncratic cafe with an ethnic and original location. The menu is a cheerful cross section of the Spanish to Mediterranean cuisine, it offers a range of traditionally prepared tapas up to homemade cakes. The prices are …

The antique furniture straight from granny’s attic and the wall-hung candle holder in twisted deer antler design. The “Hüftgold” is vintage – a café that would have sat nicely in Bohemian Paris at the turn of the century. None of these sterile Ikea DIY kit cafés with faux leather armchairs, but a former service …

You can’t simply walk past this ice cream parlour in Flingern – it already has a cult following. Once a petrol station, 50 types of ice cream are now made here, including some flavours that you would never even have guessed existed. Colourants and artificial ingredients are strictly prohibited here. When you’re there, sample …

Sugarbird Cupcakes is the first place in Düsseldorf where you can enjoy homemade cupcakes, coffee and tasty pastries. So if you want to go to visit this city, you have to stop in this place and enjoy their …

The chefs must have taken a peek inside the soup tureens of the whole world in this place. Löffelbar has a fascinating range of international cuisine. You’d be very wrong to think it was only soup on offer! There are salads, tapas and home-made cake, but also a range of cocktails in the feel-good …

If the coffee here doesn’t have love filtered through it, then it doesn’t anywhere. Even if you’ve never considered yourself a coffee gourmet, you’ll taste and see the difference here. Cappuccinos are crafted with perfect foamed milk and exquisitely patterned on …

What would Oberkassel do without Muggel? Hi-tech mums meet up here for their latte macchiatos, local business people enjoy a drink afterhours or young cliques gather for breakfast. In short – the smart set of Düsseldorf gather here, those who want to see and be seen. It may be a surprise to find that …