A large, busy and modern bakery with all sorts of fancy breads and pastries. Was pretty excited to…read moreselect a few things to try - until I walked in. The entire glass display holding the cakes and pastries was swarmed with bees!! Bees everywhere!! Walking all over the sweet goodies - eating and enjoying for free. And yet no body seemed to be shocked or appalled at the sight. The queue was still long and running strong. Was i hallucinating? Why was everyone else okay with this? I tried to look for SOMETHING that didn't have a gazillion bees crawling all over it, but there was none. So i walked out. This is definitely not something that we Londoners are okay or even used to - but i'm getting the feeling that its normal for Germans?? I even went to another bread and pastry shop/stall the next day and I witnessed the same sight. Its like the bees are also counted as customers or something. :S

Had an awesome ham and Swiss cheese sandwich on a freshly baked roll. It was packed with cucumber,…read moretomatoes and fresh shredded cabbage.

From the owner: Backwaren, Belegte Brötchen, Kaffeespezialitäten, Croques, Indische Gerichte, Flammkuchen, Salate…read moreund vieles mehr.. !

I don't remember if this was the exact location of Dat Backhus that I went to since the picture…read moreposted on this page isn't the same as the one I took. But I know it's fairly close (within the same block), and I could see the SAP building, the Ferris Wheel, and Unilever building from the window in this Hafen City location. This being our first ever meal in Germany, it was absolutely fantastic and still one of my top 3. We were exploring the city on Ascension/Man's Day, so the streets were quiet at 10am, but we were pleasantly surprised to find this shop open considering many other places weren't on such a holiday. And this was my introduction to German bread. So delicious and fresh, if only the roof of my mouth could handle the crust. I'll admit my mouth was cut up quite a bit from all the bread I ate over the next 2 weeks, but it was still so good. Now I see why my German friends complain about bread in the US. I went with a klein cup of kaffee (black), and a breakfast brotchen that included smoked salmon and sliced hard-boiled egg. Whatever spices and herbs they put on it was amazing and not at all overpowering. All this for less than 5Euro. Definitely on the cheap!

I had a great breakfast here consisting of a lot of coffee, an egg, and some great baked goods. It…read moreis very near the cruise terminal and you can see out to the river and the Marco Polo building a little bit. The prices were pretty reasonable and everybody was very friendly too. I recommend the big bowls of cafe au lait.