‘Food & Drink’ Archives
Seasonal Recipes: January 2013
Thyme Supperclub offers a light seasonal recipe to balance all the post-Christmas feasting... After the excess of the Christmas feasts, January calls for food that is healing and cleansing. For me, this means dishes sharp with citrus flavours, fragrant with herbs, and perhaps a little kick of chilli. Asian food hits the spot perfectly, particularly Thai or Japanese-influenced dishes. They feel so clean. I don’t just mean that they are healthy, although of course many of them are. But [...]
Lina Rothenberger Feine Kost und Lebensmittel
Peggy Schatz is impressed by a homey Schöneberg deli and cafe... “Feine kost is a German wordplay that means great food, but sounds a bit like gourmet food," says Kirstin Keitel. "For me, great food is about natural, down-to-earth ingredients. An apple from my garden can be just as delicious as anything else…” Lina Rothenberger was the name of Kirstin's grandmother and a self-sufficient farmer from southern Germany. She has posthumously lent her name to this small, friendly [...]
Zeit für Brot
Aarti Mehta-Kroll visits a Mitte bakery that has quality goods and a social conscience... My first visit to Zeit für Brot was on a cool and sunny Wednesday afternoon. As I strolled from Rosa Luxemburg Platz along Alte Schönhauser Strasse, I immediately noticed the long wooden tables placed outside the bakery/café beneath dark awnings. What a nice opportunity to people-watch while enjoying a coffee, I thought to myself. The first thing I noticed upon entering the café were [...]
Café Lenné
Aarti Mehta-Kroll enjoys coffee and handmade pralines in a glass-walled coffee house... Berlin’s Königlichen Gartenakademie (Royal Gardening School) was originally built in 1823 by Berlin's most renowned landscape architect - official gardener to the Prussian royal family - Peter Joseph Lenné. Located adjacent to the Botanical Gardens, today it serves as a horticultural centre and gardening school where the green-fingered can take gardening courses, buy plants and accessories [...]
Loch Ness: Scottish Pub and Whisky Bar
Aarti Mehta Kroll uncovers Berlin's most Scottish pub and finds a hair-raising selection of whiskies... Anyone who has spent any time in Scotland will be aware of its lively pub culture. In cities like Edinburgh and Glasgow, there's a pub on every corner where locals gather in the evening for a pint and chat friends and neighbours. “That is what it was like in Germany in the 1970s,” says Christian Mirus, the German owner of Loch Ness, a Scottish-themed whisky bar in Lichterfelde. While [...]
Pantry
Kelly Miller is impressed by a new restaurant that's slick yet homey and has a commitment to local produce... Situated just off the busy tourist intersection of Friedrichstraße and Oranienburger Straße, where Indian food comes with a heat lamp and a cocktail umbrella, Pantry immediately feels like a neighborhood anomaly. Having opened its doors to the public just a couple of months ago, the space is at once capacious and inviting, reflecting the combined vision of the socialite owners [...]
Hudson’s
Sahar Lone profiles Kreuzberg’s best-loved British-themed café, Hudson’s… Katie and Jim Hudson had no professional kitchen training when they opened their café in 2011. Back then, the buzzer on the kitchen oven in their apartment would go off at hourly intervals because it could only fit one cake at a time. It was only when the building Katie’s yoga classes were held at became available for rent, that the couple could finally install a kitchen and change the fit-outs. As with [...]
Chipps
Natalie Holmes discovers a great balance of healthy and stylish dining at Mitte's Chipps... “This is a place where everyone can be happy”, laughs Cookie over dinner, during a sampling evening to introduce his restaurant CHIPPS’ new summer menu. He’s referring to a selection that keeps both vegetarians and meat-eaters content, but as anyone who’s patronised other venues owned by this charismatic entrepreneur will confirm, it’s an ethos that pervades the Cookies [...]
Da Baffi
Molly Hannon tracks down divine Italian food in Wedding... Eating Italian food in Berlin can be about as thrilling as devouring a Döner Kebab. The ubiquity of both national cuisines can discourage diners from seeking out the authentic flavors that define them, or even from being able to discover exactly what those are. The year-old Da Baffi in Wedding is a shining exception. This unassuming newcomer embodies all the right elements of traditional Italian cooking. Owned by two Italians, [...]
Rollin’ Restaurant: Destination Unknown
Giulia Pines bags a table at one of Berlin's most exclusive supper clubs... It reads like the beginning of a mystery novel, or at least some kind of demented eating contest: The Challenge? Eight courses paired with eight cocktails consumed in a matter of hours. The Location? Old-timey Schöneberg cocktail bar Stagger Lee, whose name on a normal night might seem merely clever, but on one special night, seemed like a veritable foreshadowing of hangovers to come. (It's actually a folk [...]
