It's been a shockingly long time since I've posted one of these, but here's another café review for your reading pleasure. This time it's helga, styled with a lower-case h.
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| helga exterior. |
Just down the road from the Voglhaus, which is hopelessly unsuited to being a working café, this one is more promising. Advantages:
- Location: in the pedestrian heart of the city, with rail station and bus stops 5-10 minutes away.
- Opening hours: 9-7 every day. There's a sign politely asking you not to use laptops at weekends, from which I infer that it's fine the rest of the time.
- Wifi: they have it.
- Food: if you're in the market for this, they have a decent range of Mediterranean and eggy options.
- Music: when I came in for the second time, they were playing Numb, by Linkin Park (2003). This was immediately followed by In The End, also by Linkin Park (2000), Bohemian Like You, by the Dandy Warhols (2000), Mr Brightside, by The Killers (2003), Run, by Snow Patrol (2003), and Chasing Cars, also by Snow Patrol (2006). All of these are (in different ways and to different degrees) bangers of early 2000s alt-rock, the pinnacle of humanity's musical achievement, and I could pretend that I was an undergrad again.
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| Coffee by the window. |
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| Eggs benedict. |
- Although there are power sockets, there aren't very many of them. (Well, I had to be negative about something.)
- I imagine it could get busy, though it wasn't when I was there mid-week.
- A bit pricey.
Price of a regular black coffee, which tastes just fine: €3.10, with a larger option for €4.30.
Overall rating: ☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️ (4.8/5). I could definitely see myself coming back here regularly.
