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75 posts categorized "Berlin Cafes & Restaurants"

Tian Fu’s Vegetable Noodle Soup

Handmade noodles in irregular lengths with just the right amount of chew: neither gummy nor chalky. A golden broth. A generous handful of greens , more leaf than stem. Tofu marinated and slivered before joining the broth. This winter I......

Revisiting: The Literaturhaus

Snow suits the Literaturhaus. The light in the conservatory goes slate-blue at cake time. We lift flutes of sparkling wine (it's Christmas Eve) and watch snow drift into piles on the windowsill. At breakfast-time, too, the rooms are hopping, but......

Revelling in snow (Café am Neuen See)

Fickle days, gold-skied then white-skied. Best to have a cache of havens for cold days. S had a day off Kita, so we headed to the Tiergarten. Snow stung our cheeks; she stopped every few meters to stamp hearts into......

Balikci Ergün (Fish in Berlin)

We met on the S-Bahn platform and took the eastern exit to the canal. The cobblestones were bright with rain. There were moments when Aine began to doubt this bleak dark sidewalk could take us to a wonderland of fish,......

Five scoops of ice cream in Berlin

The weather might keep changing, but that hasn't stopped me from eating ice cream every chance I get. Anna Durkes is an ice cream parlour in Kreuzberg opened by a Milanese lawyer turned gelatier. The sleek, sculptural furniture is made......

Two or three lunches at das Lokal

You'll remember my enthusiasm for Kantine, the temporary restaurant Maren Thimm and Gary Hoopengardner set up in architect David Chipperfield's parking lot, so you'll imagine my delight when they found a permanent location on a sunny corner of Linienstraße. The......

Moved/Nazuna (Japanese in Berlin)

Now we're in a welter of boxes and Nazuna feels miles away. But since we moved to the new place I've slept better than I had for many months, and surely that's a good sign. Don't I always seem to......