Erich Hamann

20th-century family business started in 1912 by Erich Hamann (1880–1949), who specialised in "Bittere Schokolade" (dark chocolate) and who operated seven successful Berlin shops between 1925 and 1934. This one surviving outlet, designed by Bauhaus artist Johannes Itten (1888–1967), opened in 1928. The war was not kind to the business, but Hamann carried on until his death in 1949, when his wife Anna took over. The operation is now overseen by their son Gerhard, wife Ingrid and their son Andreas, who have maintained quality, with many varieties of shapes and sizes, from milk chocolate to the darkest dark. The coffee-flavoured Vollmilch-Mokka is particularly nice, as are the quaint-sized boxes of wafer-thin square. U-Bahn: Konstanzer Straße.