Konditorei is the German word for a pâtisserie and confectionery shop. A Konditorei typically offers a wide variety of pastries and is like a little café. In Germany and Austria it is a very popular custom to go to a Konditorei to have a cake and some coffee or hot chocolate mid-afternoon. Cakes vary from cream cakes to apple strudel to petit fours.

Konditorei sell pastries. Regularly they also offer a selection of different coffees and soft drinks, and many even carry beer and spirits. The main difference to a restaurant (besides aspects of the assortment) is the business hours.

Many bigger Konditorei also serve ice cream and iced tarts.

Business times are usually from morning to late afternoon (e.g., 9 a.m. to 6 pm) on working days and in the afternoon on Sundays. The recent tendency to stretch opening hours also takes place in this business, especially in downtowns and shopping malls. These shops are now a growing business, whilst small shops in remote areas are a dying one since the latter half of the 20th century.