Eppendorf, Hamburg
The Salon
A former bookbinder’s workshop, a nine-metre walnut bar and eleven seats. Almost everything else was taken out.
The room
Eleven seats, no tables
The building was a bookbinder’s from 1911 until 2016 and the floor still carries the marks the presses left. We kept the plaster, the two north windows and the smell of the place, and added a nine-metre bar in walnut, a brass brew rail and eleven stools.
There are no tables. Everyone sits at the bar facing the kettles, which means we can talk to you and you can watch what is happening to your coffee. There is no music before three in the afternoon and no wifi at any hour.
The room holds eleven people. On a Saturday that is a constraint. On a Wednesday morning it is the entire point.
How a visit works
Four things worth knowing
- 01
Sit anywhere
There is no host and no queue. Take a stool; someone will be with you inside a minute.
- 02
Tell us how you drink it
Not which coffee — how you drink it. We will choose the lot and tell you why we chose it.
- 03
One cup at a time
Every cup is brewed after you order it. A pour-over takes four minutes and we will not start it early.
- 04
Ask
The green log, the humidity charts and the sample roasts live behind the bar. They are there to be looked at.
When
Opening hours
- Monday, Tuesday
- Closed
- Wednesday to Friday
- 09:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 09:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 16:00
Omakase seatings Thursday to Saturday at 18:30, by reservation only. Closed 24 to 26 December and on 1 January.
Where
Finding us
Eppendorfer Landstraße 87, 20249 Hamburg. Four minutes on foot from U Kellinghusenstraße, through the archway and across the courtyard. There is no sign on the street; the door with the brass handle is ours.
Eppendorfer Landstraße 8720249 Hamburg
+49 40 4600 2178
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Behind the bar
Mirjam Osterkamp
„A coffee bar is a small argument about time. We decided ours in favour of the coffee.“
Mirjam trained as a bookbinder before she ever pulled a shot, which is why the room is the shape it is. Nine years on the bar in Copenhagen and Oslo followed, then two years buying green coffee for a Danish roaster, and then a lease on a courtyard workshop four streets from where she grew up.
She buys every lot herself, usually two or three tanks a year from producers she has visited. She roasts on a three-kilo drum in the back room on Tuesdays, when the salon is closed, and writes the recipe for each lot on the card that hangs behind the bar until the lot runs out.
Tuulia Rask has worked the second bar since 2021 and runs the Saturday cupping flights. Between them they know where every kilo in the room came from.