YOUR THIRD PLACE. RIGHT HERE IN BRUGG.

Here, you can
just be.

A place to settle in,
take a breath and enjoy.

Storchengasse 15, Brugg ·See opening hours
Fresh latte art: milk is poured by hand into a cup of coffee 01 / A LITTLE MOMENT FOR YOU LESS TO DO.MORE TO ENJOY.
Good coffee.
Good times.
COFFEE WITH HEARTMATCHA WITH FRIENDSBRUNCH WITH FAMILYTIME FOR YOU

01 — LITTLE MOMENTS TO ENJOY

What do you
fancy today?

Whether it’s a leisurely morning coffee with cornetti or granola, strawberry matcha with friends or Sunday brunch with family — at Third Place, you can just be.

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Home.
Work.
Third Place.

02 — MORE THAN A CAFÉ

Between everyday life
and your happy place.

Third Place is a place to settle in, take a breath and connect.

A place between home and work — for conversation, quiet, coffee and little moments to enjoy.

At Third Place, good coffee and food go hand in hand with a welcoming atmosphere. Whether you’re taking a short break, meeting friends, enjoying a quiet moment or getting a few productive hours in — here, you can just be.

Why ‘Third Place’? +

The term ‘third place’ was coined by sociologist Ray Oldenburg. It describes places where people can come together, build relationships and feel at ease.

That’s the feeling we want to create at Third Place Café & Lounge in Brugg — with a calm atmosphere, good coffee, matcha, granola, brunch and real connections.

Cafés, museums, parks and libraries are classic examples of third places. Places where people choose to spend time, share ideas and take a little break from everyday life.

Our small team wants to create just such a place — with warmth, care and a cosy atmosphere.

Read a book.Meet friends.Find inspiration.Stay a while.

VOICES FROM OUR COMMUNITY

What our
guests say.

Little moments that stay with you.

More reviews on Google
Imported five-star reviews from GoogleGoogle Business Profile · Stand 21.10.2026

142 Gästebewertungen mit fünf Sternen

03 — AT YOUR OWN PACE

Your visit.
Your way.

Just drop by, book a table or order ahead. Make Third Place part of your day, your way.

YOUR PLACE WITH US

Settle in.
Take a seat.

Book your table at Third Place Café & Lounge in Brugg. For breakfast, coffee, lunch or simply spending time together — we look forward to welcoming you.

  1. 01 Book your table with Aleno
  2. 02 Arrive at your chosen time
  3. 03 Sit back and enjoy
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Your booking is made directly through Aleno.

A drink is poured for a leisurely visit to Third PlaceSLOW SUNDAYS AT THIRD PLACE
SUNDAY BRUNCH · AVAILABLE UNTIL 31.12.2026

A Sunday.
Plenty of time.

UNLIMITED BRUNCH · SERVED AT YOUR TABLE

Every Sunday, we serve fresh brunch straight to your table, with personal service — no traditional buffet.

Order whatever takes your fancy, then ask for more of your favourites whenever you like. Sit back, enjoy and order another round — we’ll take care of the rest.

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ROOM FOR YOUR IDEAS

Come together.
Just as you imagined.

Seminar, meeting or birthday: plan your event in the Effingerhof event room and add food and drinks from Third Place.

  1. 01Time & room
  2. 02Food & drinks
  3. 03Your quote
YOUR ROOM AT EFFINGERHOF

Effingerhof event room

CHF 79/ hour

Choose a free time

FreeBookedYour selection

Choose a free start time. Selecting another free block extends the end time. Booked periods cannot be selected.

All times are local to Brugg (Europe/Zurich). Room hire is calculated for your selected duration.

Current availability loads automatically. Then select free time blocks.

The calendar shows all bookings for the shared Effingerhof event room. We are happy to clarify capacity and equipment before you book.

04 — CONNECTIONS THAT LAST

What’s on
at Third Place?

From time to time, we host a variety of events, gatherings and special occasions.

Any other day? Just drop by.

Any time (during opening hours, of course), you’re welcome to drop in with friends and a board game, play a DnD session, work on a presentation, read a book (the library is right next door!), do a puzzle, build your latest Lego set, ...

and stay for as long as you like.

A little Third Place for your feed. @third.place.cafe

05 — SEE YOU IN BRUGG

Your new
favourite spot.

Come by and make Third Place your third place.

Third Place Café & Lounge
Storchengasse 15
5200 Brugg
Get directions
How to find us +

The café is on the ground floor of the Effingerhof building and is accessible with pushchairs and wheelchairs.

On the Museumsstrasse side, our terrace catches the sunshine, with two young trees and parasols providing some shade.

↳ Next to the town library↳ Pushchair & wheelchair accessible

Time for Third Place

Our opening hours
Monday
09:00 – 17:30
Tuesday
09:00 – 17:30
Wednesday
09:00 – 17:30
Thursday
09:00 – 17:30
Friday
09:00 – 17:30
Saturday
09:00 – 18:30
Sunday
09:00 – 18:30

Google data: 21 Oct 2026, 22:23

Check hours on Google ↗

Opening hours from our Google Business Profile. Special hours take priority.

Opening hours may change. Check here before your visit to see when the café is open.

YOUR THIRD PLACE. YOUR PEOPLE.

Your coffee.Good company.

You do not have to drink your coffee alone. Meet people with shared interests and get together at Third Place. You decide what comes next.

Optional. Ages 18+. Profiles are only visible to signed-in community members.

Gemütlicher Treffpunkt im Third Place Café
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Ein Kaffee. Ein Gespräch.
Ein guter Anfang.

A profile that feels like you.

You both like each other. Let the chat begin.

Start online. Meet at the café.

A YES FROM BOTH OF YOU

It’s a match.

Plan a café meetup ↗

THIRD PLACE · COMMUNITY

A BIG GROUP OR A QUICK QUESTION?

What can we do for you?

An easy way to get in touch. We’ll get back to you as soon as we can.

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WE’RE HAPPY TO HELP

Hello, Third Place.

A separate booking enquiry is only needed for groups of 20 or more. For a regular visit, you can book a table directly through Aleno.

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Third Place GmbH
Storchengasse 15
5200 Brugg, Switzerland

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info@third-place-cafe.ch
+41 79 174 74 74

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Aleno processes your table reservation. For an order, we send your selection, collection time, email, phone and notes to SumUp. Card details go directly to SumUp. Our technical order database stores references, amount and processing status, without card or contact details. This processing fulfils the reservation or order you request.

Rooms and quotes

For availability and an indicative quote, we process the date, times, guest count, catering and your entries. Only an explicitly confirmed room booking sends your name, email, company, occasion and requests to our Kalender.digital calendar. Technical time locks and booking references prevent double bookings. Public availability never displays names or event contents.

Customer requests and internal CRM

To handle your contact request, confirmed room-booking request or started order, we keep an encrypted copy of the contact details supplied and the related transaction in our internal customer area. Depending on the transaction, this includes the message, booking times, event type and title, guest count, services requested, or order amount, collection time and processing or payment status. Only authorised business administration has access. Transactions are grouped by the email address supplied; this does not verify identity or access to that address. Source, time and status remain visible. This supports handling and following up your request, not advertising. Private member messages, AI conversations, card details, passwords and verification codes are not copied into the CRM. Transaction copies become inaccessible after 90 days and are progressively removed by ongoing cleanup; internal notes expire no later than 90 days after their update. Deleting a CRM copy does not delete an original booking, payment or business record subject to legal retention. Deleting a community account or withdrawing optional member care does not automatically remove these independent business transactions. You can contact us to request access, correction or deletion; we first check that you are entitled to the relevant data.

Mila – your café companion

Mila uses either OpenAI or Anthropic (Claude), depending on the active connection; the actual provider is named before consent. Changing provider requires fresh consent and resets the conversation context. Only submitted chat messages and necessary context are sent to generate replies. We do not store AI conversations in our database; context stays in the browser while the page is open. Providers retain security data under their policies; Anthropic generally deletes API inputs and outputs within 30 days, with exceptions including security and legal obligations. Enquiry forms are sent separately to the protected team inbox and CRM only after your explicit confirmation, never copied automatically from the chat. AI replies can contain errors. A reservation is valid only when confirmed by the booking system.

Community and guestbook

The community lets adults meet for coffee, reading, games, food or conversation. The participants decide whether friendship or something more develops. The 18+ confirmation is a self-declaration, not an identity-document or identity check. You create an account with a username and password. We store salted, additionally protected password verification values, a recovery-code verification value and technical session records, not plaintext passwords. Your recovery code is shown only when issued; recovery replaces the password and code and ends existing sessions. Password reset by email is not provided. Your profile contains a display name, description, interests, activities, a conversation starter and visibility choice. It is hidden by default. Visible profiles appear only to signed-in community members. Private chats start after an accepted contact request and are not end-to-end encrypted. Blocking closes access to the connection; authorised moderators may review specifically reported content. Guestbook entries become public only after manual approval. Please do not publish sensitive details or other people's data.

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An optional photo is reduced in your browser to a square JPEG crop. The server checks its file type, size and dimensions and removes image metadata such as EXIF. We store the photo separately in protected Cloudflare R2 storage. It has no publicly accessible image address: your account and eligible members access it through visible profiles or accepted contacts. Blocking and hidden profiles are respected; authorised moderators can review reported photos. There is no facial recognition or automatic identity verification.

Confirming email and phone

Contact details are not required to register and remain separate from your visible profile. When you request a confirmation code, we process the email address or phone number you provide and, if the connection is available, send it with the code to Resend or Twilio for delivery. Your profile shows whether a channel is available; without a connection there is no sending or confirmation. We encrypt contact details and retain only a protected verification value for codes. A code is valid for at most ten minutes with at most five attempts. Confirmation proves access to that contact channel, not identity or age. Other members see only its confirmation status, never your contact details. You can remove each channel yourself.

Optional member care

The protected administration area shows authorised staff necessary membership and moderation information. Only after you separately consent to personal member care may they use your stored contact details and related non-sensitive care notes. Private chats are not copied into the CRM. This optional consent is not consent to newsletters or advertising and is not required for your account, profile or chat. Withdrawal deletes care notes and hides contact details in the CRM; your account remains usable. Notes expire no later than 180 days after their last update.

Purposes and legal grounds

We process data only for the account, contact, communication and visit functions you choose, and for security and abuse prevention. There is no automated partner scoring, inference of sexual orientation or advertising profiling. Where the GDPR applies, necessary account and communication functions rely on performance of the user relationship (Article 6(1)(b)), optional visibility and member care on your withdrawable consent (point (a)), and appropriate security measures on our legitimate interests in safe operation (point (f)). Statutory retention duties remain reserved. The applicable Swiss FADP requirements apply in Switzerland.

Retention and deletion

Your account, profile and confirmed contact channels remain until you change or delete them. Account deletion removes the username, password and recovery verification values, sessions, profile, contacts, confirmation requests, care notes and own guestbook entries, plus associated chat histories including messages from other participants. Photos immediately become inaccessible through the website; a durable deletion queue removes their files at the next successful storage clean-up. Immediate deletion from all infrastructure backups is not promised. Otherwise private messages are visible for 90 days; reports and pending or hidden guestbook entries expire after 30 days. Confirmation codes cannot be used after ten minutes; expired requests, content and sessions are removed at the next relevant clean-up. Care notes expire after 180 days or are removed on withdrawal. Approved guestbook entries remain until deleted. A protected verification value of the previous username remains effective for 30 days after deletion; only that username is unavailable during this period. Separate moderation markers relate to the affected account, not a verified identity. These safety values contain no profile content, plaintext usernames, email addresses or raw IP addresses. Technical abuse counters expire separately. Other business records are retained for fulfilment and legal duties. Your private passed-profile choices expire after 30 days; “See passed profiles again” lets you delete them earlier. Other members cannot see these choices.

Contact and external links

The contact form sends your entries directly to our protected contact inbox. Your name, email, optional phone number and message are encrypted and used only to handle your enquiry, for no longer than 90 days. No automatic confirmation email is sent. Phone numbers are checked for a plausible format; this does not verify reachability. Google reviews appear as dated excerpts with names and source links; no Google widget loads. Maps, social media and other external sites open only after a click and follow their own policies.

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Depending on the function used, Sites/OpenAI and Cloudflare process necessary hosting data; Aleno, SumUp and Kalender.digital receive details for your table reservation, order or room booking. Resend (email) and Twilio (SMS and participating telecommunications networks) may receive explicitly requested contact codes. The AI provider named before consent, OpenAI or Anthropic, receives messages from the chat with Mila only when that service is enabled and available; community chats are not used for it. Kalender.digital states that its servers are in Germany. Other named providers may process data in the EU, United States or other countries; exclusive storage in Switzerland is not promised. Linked provider information explains international processing and safeguards. For specific information about recipients and safeguards used for your request, contact info@third-place-cafe.ch.

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In your signed-in profile you can change visibility and contacts, withdraw member care, download a data export or delete your account after confirming your password. The export contains account and profile data, your contacts and choices, your sent messages, connection information, your own passed-profile choices and your guestbook entries; it excludes credentials, messages authored by others and internal care notes. For broader access, correction, deletion, restriction or objection requests, contact info@third-place-cafe.ch. We assess requests under applicable rights, other people's rights and legal duties. You may contact the Swiss FDPIC and, where competent, an EU supervisory authority.

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Holiday opening hours · Whitsun 2026

Sunday, 24 May
Whitsun brunch buffet
10:00 – 16:00

Café open from 09:00 – 18:30

Monday, 25 May
Open as usual from 09:00 – 18:30

Further holiday opening hours will be updated regularly.

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