Just in the rather unlikely event that the Easter Bunny does not put a sufficient amount of nibbles in the lovingly prepared Easter nests, I have prepared for you a small list of top addresses in Lübeck, which of course have a great selection of very special chocolates, candies and confections on offer all year round. So on Easter Saturday or right after the holidays you can go on a tasting tour to these selected stores in Lübeck. It’s not easy for me to rank them, so the 7 towers tips are simply listed in alphabetical order.
7 towers – 7 tips
Abessa Konditorei
At Abessa in Fleischhauerstr. 54 it smells simply heavenly of bakery products. As soon as you enter the store you immediately see the bakery located behind the sales room. This small fine pastry shop offers delicious handmade macarons, tarts, cakes, chocolates and tea cakes. Macarons! The Sun King could not be mistaken. I don’t know if I like raspberry or pistachio the best. This light and airy consistency is just perfect. If you’ve worked up an appetite, many of the delicious sweets are also available in the online store. In addition, master confectioner Kerstin Kriese also introduces all untrained and interested people to the secrets of making chocolates. Kerstin’s seminars can be booked online.
Bolchen candy manufactory
Almost next door, at Fleischhauerstraße 38, you’ll find bolchen Bonbonmanufaktur, where you can immerse yourself in a world of delicious sweets in all variations: from sweet, sour, fruity or minty bolchen, rocks and lollies to various types of licorice and fruit gums and classic candy. Only natural flavours and colours are used in the production and you can also taste in the store. If licorice is your thing: you’ll find that in the bolchen, too.
Candy makers have their secrets, of course, but some tricks they do reveal. So does the owner of bolchen Elke Freiberg, who shows you how to make sweets yourself in her workshops. She is a woman who has loved working with her hands since childhood and lives her passion for making the little sticky delicacies.
Kaffeehaus
In Hüxstraße, which runs parallel to Fleischhauerstraße, you will find another excellent café – Kaffeehaus, whose architecture would be worth its own blogpost – in the house with the number 35, a listed building originally preserved from the 13th century. As would the yummy breakfast with regional products and the always freshly roasted coffee. But today we are talking about sweets to go. The in-house manufactory produces chocolates and pastries, which you can also buy online.
However, it is a thousand times more pleasant to enjoy it on site. As soon as you enter, the unique scent of freshly roasted coffee envelops you. It’s almost impossible not to quickly take a seat for a mocha espresso with dark chocolate. My favourite for home is the chocolate with ginger. However, the team around Katharina Boye and Holger Schubert is always creating new flavours, so I usually leave the coffee house with more than one bar.
Lorenz Café
The Lorenz Café is located a bit away from the Old Town at Moislinger Allee 69B. You can also stop by here for breakfast, buy bread and rolls, cakes and pies. Many products are also vegan or gluten-free. Exciting for us today looking for sweets to take home is the range of chocolate bars and broken chocolates, as well as chocolates, tea cakes, marzipan and nougat.
The owner of the café is a Chocolate Sommelier. Lars-Ole Kudszus passed his exam in the fall of 2020 at the Akademie Deutsches Bäckerhandwerk (German Bakery Trade Academy) after comprehensive further training and earned this special and coveted distinction. The seminar was all about seeing, smelling, feeling and tasting chocolate. By the way, Lorenz Café also serves irresistible macarons. During my visit I also discover a filigree swan made of sugar. The finely chiseled journeyman piece of a former apprentice. Too bad I can’t take it with me.
Café Niederegger
Of course, this traditional house is also on my list. You can spend hours on the first floor of the Niederegger Café at Breite Straße 89 . The classics are world famous. With this, you or the Easter bunny can never go wrong. However, it is said that there are actually people who do not like marzipan so much.
You will also find something for these loved ones, because for several years now the company has also been manufacturing products that come along completely without marzipan. I buy licorice crush from the series “We love Chocolate”. At home there’s a special someone who can’t get enough of licorice.
One Fairtrade
ONE stands for Organic, Natural, Ethical. Juliane Aigner and Aykut Kayabas, owners of the ONE Fairtrade store have been selling fair trade products at Königstraße 106 since 2002. From high-quality hammocks from El Salvador to hip bamboo bowls from Vietnam to imaginative bags from Thailand – on 75 square meters you travel once around the world!
You can also find fair trade confectionery here, such as fancy chocolates from Zotter and classic chocolates from GEPA. I recommend buying a delicious drinking chocolate for the Easter nest.
Viola’s
At Hüxstraße 15, I now visit VIOLA’S, which is actually a specialty store for fine spice creations and homemade rice and pasta mixes. No wonder, because the founder and namesake Viola Fuchs is a third-generation spice miller. Viola’s stores also sell vinegar, spirits, oil and fruit spreads.
I recently received the French roll liqueur from Viola’s as a gift. Really a discovery and popular beyond measure, I learn. I come to the lovingly decorated store today because of the delicious manufactory chocolates, more precisely because of the “Love Cocoa Salted Caramel Milk Chocolate”. I’ll make myself a present for Easter.
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