The 5 Best Matcha Cafés in Berlin (2026)

Berlin's original and most complete Japanese green tea café — a Mitte institution on Mulackstraße that has been operating since the 2010s and remains the city's most serious dedicated space for the full spectrum of Japanese tea culture. The interior is the first signal: tatami floor seating, bamboo screens, and a calm that is genuinely unusual for central Berlin. The matcha here is not an afterthought — it anchors a menu that includes matcha chiffon cake, matcha tiramisu, matcha ice cream, and a rotating selection of handmade desserts that change with the season. The lunch menu adds Japanese bento boxes with miso soup and vegetarian gyoza. A small retail section sells teas, teaware, and signature products for visitors who want to take the Mamecha experience home. With over 70 Yelp reviews and a strong TripAdvisor presence, this is the most documented matcha destination in the city.

Berlin's most visible dedicated matcha café brand — formerly known as Happy Matcha, which was the city's first matcha-only café when it opened, rebranded as Matchasome and expanded to two locations across Mitte and Kreuzkölln. The Torstraße 68 flagship in Mitte is the original: a compact, well-designed space that serves a tight menu of ceremonial matcha drinks, hojicha, and vegan and gluten-free pastries baked to accompany them. The sourcing is genuine and the preparation is clean; this is not a café that treats matcha as a flavour shot but as the product. A second location at Maybachufer 21 on the Landwehrkanal in the Kreuzkölln neighbourhood opened in response to demand from residents who could not make the Mitte trip regularly — the two locations now serve different sides of the city without compromising on quality or consistency.

A superfood café on the banks of the Spree river in Friedrichshain — directly adjacent to the East Side Gallery — that serves one of the most distinctive matcha menus in Berlin alongside views of the water that are genuinely rare at this price point. Goodlyfe is part of the LYFE concept, a Berlin brand built around high-quality natural beverages, and the matcha program reflects that: the signature Hot Strawberry Matcha and Cold Sakura Matcha are both seasonal specials that draw from the café's broader philosophy of pairing matcha with complementary botanicals and fruit rather than simply producing a standard latte. Cold-pressed juices, smoothie bowls, and specialty coffee round out the menu for non-matcha drinkers. The riverside terrace is one of the best outdoor drinking settings in Friedrichshain on a warm afternoon — plan accordingly.

A minimalist plant-based café and concept store on Linienstraße in Mitte that has built its reputation on two things: the most refined vegan matcha drinks in Berlin, and a set of Japanese-inspired desserts — matcha, yuzu, black sesame — that stand alongside the best in Europe. Everything is vegan; nothing is sweet for the sake of sweetness. The tofu cheesecake, in particular, has become one of the most discussed desserts in the city: silky, clean, and precisely flavoured with matcha that is of genuine ceremonial quality. The café accepts card only, has no Wi-Fi, and explicitly discourages laptop working — a deliberate choice to keep the atmosphere as a place for eating and conversation rather than a co-working space. Arrive early; the cakes sell out on most days before closing time.

A quiet café and bookshop in Neukölln's Pannierstraße that has earned a devoted following among Berlin's most informed matcha drinkers for one reason: it sources its matcha from Ippodo, the Kyoto tea merchant founded in 1717 and widely regarded as one of the two or three most respected producers of Japanese tea in the world. Ippodo matcha — served classically or in cappuccino and latte preparations — delivers a depth and sweetness that is genuinely difficult to find outside Japan, and which separates Two and Two from every other café on this list on sourcing grounds alone. The setting amplifies the experience: a bookshop interior, weekend-only hours (Friday through Sunday), and a pace that encourages sitting with a book and a bowl of matcha rather than taking it to go. Matcha also appears in the financiers, cakes, and croissants from the kitchen.