Berlin: Café Kotti

Café Kotti is where you end up when you’re in Kreuzberg and the afternoon stretches out with nowhere to go. The coffee is correct, the crowd is familiar and strange at once, the walls are covered in layers of stickers that have become their own kind of wallpaper. It’s the kind of place that stopped trying to mean anything and became essential by accident. You can sit there for hours and nobody minds.