Padeffke is a bakery and cafe on the way from the train station to the old part of town. In the front you can order various baked goods - from bread to pastries. In the back you can sit at any table of your choice. It's basically self serve, so you get your baked goods and coffee from the cashier and then find your table and sit down. The prices are reasonable, and the space is really nice. I've been there twice now. The first time was to grab coffee for a friend's birthday and the second time I went to read.
I'll start with the good parts and transition into the not so great. First, it's very easy to find a place to sit. They've got booths, high tables, low tables, tables with funky chairs, areas where you sit on pillows and hang out - basically whatever space you want to be in, you can find it there. In fact, if you have a specific desire for a firmness of the pillow upon which you sit, you can choose from a variety in the back. They also have a little library back there where you can find a book and do some reading. It's probably the most "american" coffee shop I've been to. Also, when I went they were having a special on some of their baked goods because hey had won some sort of award.
Here's the not so awesome. I had cappuccino both times I went, and I found it to be a little lacking. There was too little foam, and the espresso part tasted a little watered down. There may have been more that made it bad, but at this point I can't remember, all I remember is that it certainly wasn't the best cappuccino I'd ever had. I'm sure some of the other drinks there are just fine, but I just know that I've had better cappuccino elsewhere.
The other not so awesome thing probably has more to do with me than with the location, but I was approached by a crazy woman while I was there. She sat down at a table one away from me, and proceeded to drink her mini wine. (Yes...that kind of crazy person.) She was clearly talking to herself, but you never know if someone is talking on a hands free device these days, so I just ignored that.
Then when a gentleman sat down at the table between us she got up and started talking to him. I could tell she was saying something about someone attacking her but I wasn't sure what she was saying because of the background noise. The guy just wanted to drink his coffee. Eventually she went away, but came back and the guy left essentially telling her to leave him alone. She pestered a few other people and eventually came to my table. I was taking surreptitious pictures of the place when she came up and asked about my camera. It seemed to disturb her, so I put it away. I mean, there's no sense upsetting a crazy woman more than necessary. She told me some crazy story and I seemed uninterested so she went away. Eventually I finished my reading and left.
I would recommend the place as a study location, and that's about it. The prices are comparable to other coffee shops and nobody on the staff is going to bother you about staying too long, but the coffee's not great and there is the possibility for crazy drunk people to harass you.
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