Welcome to the liquorice paradise! Whether you are looking for your special favourite liquorice or are surprised by the handmade liquorice blends, would like to delight your loved ones with a gift, liquorice subscription, voucher - choose your category and immerse yourself in the liquorice variety of kadó. Here the heart of a liquorice fan beats faster!
If you want to get to know the variety of liquorice from Iceland to Sicily, you have the opportunity here. Choose a flavour and the respective mixture offers the spectrum of flavours. Liquorice crosses through our range, good for beginners and explorers. Get ready to be surprised!
The coastal inhabitants probably invented the addition of salt to liquorice. The Netherlands and Scandinavia shape this category with wonderfully spicy combinations. The rough sea air can be found in the licorice varieties. Salt liquorice greets sea breeze - Ahoy!
Our extra salty liquorice varieties are only for adults. They are scratching the permitted limit of 7.99 percent added salt. Whether black and double salted or licorice sprinkled with a salt crust - no eye stays dry here!
If you only know Salmiak from cleaning, you've missed the best. Known as rock salt since ancient times, ammonia is still used for seasoning. Depending on the recipe, liquorice is given a mildly spicy, sweet-hearted or spicy note by ammonia. Liquorice for adults!
Our selection of sweet and mild liquorice ranges from aromatically soft, fruity filled and variegated licorice. The offer is as wide as there are sweets in Europe. No liquorice is the same here!
Our sweet-bitter, or "romaneque" liquorice with its natural flavours is from the South of Europe. Just like a mediterranean garden, these sorts are flavored with mint, citrus, elderflower, blackberry, honey, violet or aniseed. Experience the origins of liquorice here!
These tiny pieces of liquorice come from Italy, France and Spain and bring southern natural aromas such as mint, violet, anise and citrus. The circulatory stimulant clycyrrhizin is part of this natural product. That's why you shouldn't consume more than 5 grams of pure liquorice a day!
Make you happy with liquorice from kadó - for example with a liquorice mixture in a beautiful jewelry box or tin, an entertaining read about black passion, a cookbook with cooking ingredients, a liquorice subscription or a voucher? There is something presentable for every budget!
With the liquorice voucher you give away the key to the liquorice paradise. Whether looking forward to our liquorice variety and real indulgence in liquorice enjoyment - leave the decision to the recipient!
With the liquorice subscription, our variety of liquorice is tasted in peace and quiet, for a year. Or a half for a sniff. The liquorice shipments always arrive in the mailbox on the 10th of the month. If you want to make yourself or a liquorice fan happy, subscribe to liquorice in the house!
Our boxes, tins, and dispensers are small liquorice greeting cards from all over Europe, each with its own unique design. These little tins are nice and handy, ideal companions for on the go!
Liquorice in its liquid state is a species in itself: on ice, in cocktails, as an infusion, for lemonade or pure enjoyment - just sniff and sip!
Liquorice as a spice in the kitchen? But yes. Can it be mustard with liquorice or tagliatelle? Jam or chutney? The fine little kitchen helpers from Italy and Scandinavia bring amazing nuances of taste to the table. Happy testing - we look forward to your new liquorice recipes!
A good 500 different types of liquorice from Europe exude their fragance in our Online Store. Liquorice lovers shop online - welcome to kado.de!
Liquorice to the movie? Selected cinemas in Berlin offer some liquorice mixtures to the film. Sweet or salty, black-coloured and delicious. Enjoy a black eve!
The search for something special connects kadó with KaDeWe. And so you will find a small, fine selection of kadó liquorice on the 6th floor of the famous Charlottenburg department store. KaDeWe and kadó wish you lots of fun!
What is liquorice? Do all liquorice taste the same? Cooking with liquorice? Here we chat from our liquorice knowledge, tell how it came to the book about liquorice, show how liquorice is produced, inspire to cook with liquorice powder. And are curious about your liquorice anecdote!
A few facts concisely told, informative and worth the read for a liquorice deep dive. What are the ingredients in liquorice? What is salmiac? How long have these black delicacies been available? This is where we chat away through our years of liquorice knowledge!
We wanted to explore some questions that we had heard frequently at work: Why is liquorice black? Is "salmiac" a type of liquorice too? What is the deal with "bears poo"? So we developed the idea to tell a few interesting and funny stories around liquorice in a little book. Viola!
The example of our ginger liquorice shows how liquorice is produced. This recipe was commissioned by kadó and developed in the food laboratory. Our salty sea urchins and our cinnamon glaze jelly are also exclusive kadó!
Liquorice moves into the spice racks not only of professional chefs. Liquorice powder gives the special touch of pasta, salad dressing, jam, meat and pastries. Here is fried, boiled and tried. Start with our cookbox, ...we look forward to your recipe, please to info@kado.de
The small and large liquorice monsters visit us every day and we share our liquorice stories. Some come from early childhood, others only start with kadó. We are always curious to hear a new one - and would be very happy to hear from you!
In 1997 the first One-Thing-Liquorice-Shop was founded in Berlin-Kreuzberg. kadó, inspired by french cadeau, should become a gift to every liquorice fan. Media accompanied kadó from the beginning, it´s a journey through time by its own. As our little kadó-story is. Have a look!
kadó was established in 1997 as the first specialized Liquorice Shop in Germany. This was discovered by some media, and they followed and reported on the store. Travel back in time with the help of our archive - radio, tv, press and web!
Luckily enough, throughout the years we took a photo every now and then during work hours. And without this little photographic treasure trove, we wouldn´t be able to tell the kadó story, from the very beginning until today. An amusing read, followed by a smile guaranteed!
Liquorice poetry is created when lovers share their fondness with us. Poems to liquorice you can read here...
25 years of kadó. A liquorice journey in 6 memories from 1997 to 2022.
Fancy a game, dear liquorice monsters?
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You can reach us by phone on Mondays to Fridays from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Saturdays from 9:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on 030 69 04 16 38
25 years of kadó. A liquorice journey in 6 memories from 1997 to 2022.
Fancy a game, dear liquorice monsters?
Fancy a little time travel without a competition? We have summarised the 25 years of our kadó liquorice life in 6 memories. You are cordially invited to play them online and enjoy yourself. And for those who like to nibble liquorice to play: Liquorice & Memorie is available as a real game, in a limited edition. The memorie cards are played and the liquorice motifs are snacked away. Mmm, see you soon!
1997 - 2001 Starting businessHere are the explanations from the kadó events of these 5 years.
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How do you find your clientele in pre-digital times? We made liquorice palatable to visitors at Berlin's weekly markets. For the first time, with the help of our employees, we went out on Saturdays to Winterfeldtmarkt (Schöneberg), Kollwitzplatz (Prenzlauer Berg) and Hackescher Markt (Mitte). Our liquorice offer found its customers, how would it be to be able to show the liquorice variety of Europe in a little liquorice shop ...
We found what we were looking for at Graefestrasse 75. A small shop was available for rent for a small amount of money, but it needed a lot of renovation. We signed a long-term contract to the landlord's delight, because he didn't give the "liquorice shop ??" much chance of success. We took care of the installation of a heating system and the first thing the gas fitter did was to turn off the gas in the house - because of leaking gas pipes in the whole house. That's how you get to know your neighbors - sorry, we're the new ones, here to stay!
Together with graduates of the University of Design and our friend and photographer Dirk Soboll, we worked on the corporate design of the soon-to-be liquorice shop. Colours, style, logo, interior design, old scales | cash register plays with "Tante Emma", but the liquorices are offered hygienically and transparently in specially designed display cases. The first liquorice shop in Germany now has a home and is called kadó. Borrowed from Dutch, where it is in turn derived from French, it stands for gift. And that's what we want to be for liquorice monsters and all those who want to become one.
The search for salted liquorice from Scandinavia led to the by-catch of this old gem. The hump-backed Volvo supplied the 3 kadó liquorice stalls at Berlin's weekly markets every Saturday and cruised us through liquoriceophile countries for further liquorice research, thank the EU!
I was nervous! The first pallet of liquorice from Holland drove up, the whole truck three times longer than our shop. 600 kg to stow and sell.
It was a good thing that the idea of a mail-order business came up during the founding brainstorming session. That's how the first of a total of 5 liquorice catalogues came into being, still with order cards to fill in. And in 1998, the fresh university graduates recommended that we get a URL address for the internet. "Eh?" Absolutely, because that would become the future of a mail order business. Print and online - black happiness, any questions?
In Finland, we had made liquorice appointments exactly on 21 June without thinking anything of it. We arrived in Helsinki and the party atmosphere could already be felt and seen. When it became difficult to meet our dates in person, it dawned on us: Mökki-time! Finland's big holidays. All Finns have disappeared to their summer home, Mökki, until September. We begrudge them that, but we didn't travel all the way here for that. And so we are served by the SEO of the house - really all the staff had already toasted the summer and escaped.
After all, we found salt liquorice in Denmark, Sweden and Finland and our assortment grew steadily. Now the pallets came to kadó from there too.
I thought I already knew my way around liquorice, but I was always surprised. In Scandinavia, there are a number of filled sherbet sweets with liquorice or salmiak or, as here, caramel with salmiak. And the combination also tastes very good. In Scandinavia, they seem to be a bit more experimental when it comes to liquorice recipes.
Liquorice fudge is a liquorice caramel: tuff, soft, gentle, vanilla, liquorice, crumbly. A popular liquorice star from the kadó range, which has already made it onto the cinema screen. Whenever a few chunks of hashish appear in a film scene. Liquorice makes it possible.
Liquorice is also often sprinkled. This can be sugar or salt, as here with the black metal guitars. An aromatic variety, soft and spicy. In general, salt liquorice mostly comes from coastal countries. Perhaps because of the harsh maritime climate, it is also very popular there.
And bang - five years are up. The business start-up leave now demands a decision for life. Shall we continue? Yes, we do. A good reason to celebrate the occasion with a nice party again. kadó liquorice shop, even the SFB, which will be called RBB after the merger in 2003, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg...
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