Favorite Restaurants and Cafes: Lu Loves Belmundo

Hello everyone! Here's a new blogpost as addition to my Potsdam guide blog feature and as a new episode of my series of favorite restaurants and cafés.
Belmundo is one of my favorite places in Potsdam for having a delicious snack and for enjoying the nice atmosphere. It's not only a restaurant and café, but also a place for shopping: they sell handmade items by local creatives and they support local art.
Apart from some sweet treats, Belmundo offers two main kinds of food: Portuguese croissants (sweet and savory) and Kumpir. The latter is my favorite: potatoes baked with cheese and then filled in all kinds of different variations, for example in Greek style with olives, feta, onions, and so on, or in Indian style with curry sauce. Mhhh, each time it's hard to decide which one to take!
Moreover, I do not only count this place to my favorites because of the good food, but also because of the super pretty interior. You might probably know that I'm a sucker for pretty vintage furniture and Belmundo is full with this. The beautiful counter, the tables, chairs, old cabinets; all these things make me happy when eating there.
Mhhhh, the croissants, heavenly!
When it's not too cold, you can also sit outside in front of the pretty old building.
So this is a place I can totally recommend when visiting Potsdam and writing this blog post made my mouth water, can't wait to go there again pretty soon! :)

Happy day!
Lu

Here's how you can find Belmundo:
Belmundo
Jägerstraße 40
14467 Potsdam
Call: 0331 / 23 18 48 22
E-mail: info@belmundo.eu
Click to visit their website

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Favorite Shops: Lu Loves Texstile

Hello my dear readers! Today I want to present you another shop which I really like, it's part of the series with all my favorite shopping places.
Although Texstile has already been featured in my detailed Potsdam Guide I published a few weeks ago, it deserves a blog post on its own, because to me it's important to support this business and the people behind it, I'm gonna tell you why:
Those of you who have already been reading my blog for quite a while, might remember that I have been working in a pretty fabric store in Potsdam for 1 1/2 years. It was about one year ago that I quit my job there to start my social media internship for DaWanda, but I left with a heavy heart, leaving a super pretty working environment and the very best, absolutely kind, attentive and sympathetic colleagues behind me! About four months after I had left, the owner closed the fabric store where I had been working, but the good thing about this was that my former colleague Antje - who is a textile designer and had already been running her own store and a textile workshop in the past - then started working on opening her very own fabric store and Texstile was born. Now Potsdam has a super pretty new fabric store with everything one desires and she even employs my other former colleague, yay!!
So Potsdam finally has an extremely pretty new place for shopping fabric, sewing supplies and for visiting sewing classes for beginners and advanced, hooorrayyy!
Antje, the owner and founder of Texstile, offers a wide range of colorful ribbons, zippers and all kinds of fabrics for sewing clothes or for decorative purposes.
The fabric store is located in a historical building directly in Potsdam's city center and filled with all kinds of colorful and pretty things that one could need for a sewing project.
I'm really really happy for Antje that she could fulfill her dream of running an own fabric store and sewing school (and she's so talented, she has already been giving sewing classes for some years) and that she and my other former colleague are now working together. :)

So if you are in Potsdam and are into sewing, you should definitely go there, you'll find all kinds of pretty supplies and textiles and shopping there is the perfect way to support a new business that is totally worth it and which is run with lots of love and passion!

Lu

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Luloveshandmade's Potsdam Guide

Yayyy, my Potsdam guide is finally online!! I did not only write a normal blog post, but I filled a whole blog page with it. If you are curious about it or planning your next city trip, have a look at the extra page with my detailed Potsdam guide! :)
Have fun!
Lu

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