Café Cortés

Café Cortés works the edge of Göttingen's old town with a French-leaning patisserie case and a full espresso bar. The kitchen turns out éclairs, tartelettes and macarons alongside display tortes: a raspberry-cheesecake torte, a chocolate-vanilla torte, a blueberry tart, and a vegan chocolate-and-pear cake for guests skipping dairy. Coffee runs on the café's own blend, BIN Caffè Bruno Espresso, mixed 60 percent robusta to 40 percent arabica, poured alongside house-made chocolate bars. Der Feinschmecker, the German food and wine magazine, named Café Cortés among the country's best cafés and roasteries for 2025 — a national placement for a university-town café more often associated with lecture halls than pastry counters. The café keeps a single long shift, open daily from noon to seven, and takes online orders for pickup or home delivery when a torte needs to travel. No founding date or founder's name is published on the site; what's on record is the case itself — French technique applied to German café hours, anchored by a blend built specifically for the espresso machine rather than bought in.