Bonanza Coffee Heroes

Oderberger Straße 35, Prenzlauerberg

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Alongside fixed-gear bicycles, coffee is likely the most important part of a well-rounded hipster diet. This explains the existence of Intelligentsia and Blue Bottle.

The espresso-based drinks at Bonanza Coffee Heroes will make you reconsider ever returning to the States. They have a Synesso Cyncra. That's right, you haven't even heard of that because the States is still obsessed with maintaining shitty antique espresso machines. This will blow your coffee-drinking palette straight out the back of your mullet.

Bonanza roasts the beans right in the area where you are ordering, not behind some poser rope a la Blue Bottle. Only go here if you never want to enjoy coffee again.

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Hipster Neighborhoods Equivalents

Kreuzberg

Williamsburg, circa pre-2005. Still a little rough around the edges, but a nice balance between avant-garde and old guard. Best live music and bars.

Prenzlauerberg

Williamsburg, circa 2011. What was once grunge-ish is now glossed over. That does not mean that good coffee and food does not exist. Just don't expect to end your nights here.

Neukölln

Bushwick, circa whenever. Weird, unexplored, dirty.

Mitte

Midtown. Avoid unless doing mandatory touristy bullshit.

Useful phrases for the hipster in Berlin.

Wo kann mann ein Fixed-Gear Fahrrad kaufen?

Where can I buy a fixed-gear bicycle?

Zwei Becks, bitte.

Two Becks, please. (Becks is somewhere in between Budweiser and PBR on the cool scale.)

Deine moderne Kunst-Musik Mischform gefällt mir gut.

I really like your modern art-music hybrid performance.

I liked that bar before Kelly Sutton wrote about it.

Ich hätte das Bar gemacht, bevor Kelly Sutton über das geschrieben hat.