Saturday, October 15, 2022

Konstanz Working Cafés #5: Coffee Fritz

Next up in our series is Coffee Fritz, a little place near the Swiss border that has only been here for a few years.

Advantages:

  • Excellent coffee: you can always get a very nice coffee here. It was set up on the model of an Australian coffee shop, complete with flat white, long black, etc. If you just ask for a coffee, you will be asked to specify further - which in Konstanz is the mark of a good coffee place. They have a very small range of food options, mostly pastries and muesli, but it’s all high quality. Depicted: cappuccino.
  • Lovely staff: the small team that run it are super friendly, and also speak excellent English, in case language is a deal-breaker for you.
  • Nice ambience: full of coffee-related paraphernalia, see picture. Range of seating.
  • Rarely completely full, despite not being very big. For the summer months it has outdoor seating with good people-watching spots. Its location is marked by a sign with amusing things written on it (see picture).
  • Good location: it’s next to Schnetztor, on the number 9 bus line to the university, and 5-10 minutes’ walk from the station and city centre, as well as 5 minutes’ walk from the Swiss border.
Disadvantages:
  • No wifi, and mobile internet doesn’t work particularly well here either. Bring the files you need.
  • Not open every day. It’s always closed on Sundays and (more importantly for working purposes) Mondays.
  • Slightly on the expensive side, though it doesn’t really matter if you just nurse one or two coffees over a couple of hours.
Price of a regular black coffee (here americano/long black): €3.50

Overall rating: ☕️☕️☕️☕️ (4/5). Rounded up from 3.5ish, since the lack of internet is a big deal for working.

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