Café Rico is on Mittelstraße in the fashion and design quarter, a short walk from Rudolfplatz, and has been one of the standing gay meeting points in Cologne for years. It describes itself as a street café at Rudolfplatz.
Coffee comes in the Viennese manner. Breakfast runs all day, alongside tarte flambée, salads, quiche and cake, with gluten-free options and a kitchen that covers most dietary requirements. It is gay-owned and gay-popular rather than a scene bar.
The terrace is generous and faces the street traffic near Rudolfplatz, which is where most people sit and why the place fills up in the afternoon rather than at night.
