Laim often gets left out. People talk about Westend and its cafes, Pasing and its market – but the in-between is often forgotten. Wrongly, really, for there are so many reasons to visit Laim – Konditorei Dettenbeck has fantastic cake, the Speisezimmer is one of my all-time favourite places to go for a relaxed lunch, the Einstein bouldering gym is great (and has, unexpectedly for a not-very-fancy sports centre, good ice cream and good coffee), and now, there’s Cafe Steinchen.
Its location is a former car park close to Basic on the Agnes-Bernauer-Straße. It opened just last Friday and I paid them a visit on Saturday. Sisters Laura and Alexa Steinke are its creators, and at present, they have permission to run their container cafe until the end of the year.
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Shipping containers are perfect for temporary use projects – as Container Collective, Cafe Gans and Bahnwärter Thiel can attest – and they make for an alternative, creative atmosphere, which does Munich no harm at all. All of the furniture is second-hand, either found at flea markets or collected from friends and relatives, and it lends the cafe a laid-back charm.
Cafe Steinchen serves Tilmans beer, great coffee and cake, and Weißwurst breakfasts at the weekend. They’re planning on plety of events to keep you entertained as you eat: workshops for kids and concerts are in the pipeline.
Opening a cafe in the middle of a pandemic hasn’t been easy – hop on the tram and head out to Laim to support this brilliant project.
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