‘Food & Drink’ Archives
Memory Vintage (Shop & Café)
Carlijn Potma delves deep into Berlin's Memory Vintage shop & cafe... Everytime I cycle down Schwedter Strasse there is one special place I can’t bear to ride past. Located nearby the busy Schönhauser Allee, Memory Vintage - a curious shop brimmed with things we deem call ‘retro’ - just keeps on luring me in with its nostalgic atmosphere that transports me into the past. Memory is not only a store - the eponymous café next door is part of the business, run by [...]
Yellow Sunshine
Kreuzberg's Yellow Sunshine leaves vegans and carnivores unsatisfied reckon Ruth Michaelson and Itay Lotem... The vegan perspective (Ruth) Let’s be clear about this: I’m a vegan that loves food. I make a point of not wearing anything made with hemp; in fact after a teenage obsession with the colour purple I wouldn’t even wear that any more for fear of looking a bit too Linda McCartney. I also love dining out, especially as in Berlin this can often be cheaper than cooking at [...]
The Way Of Tea
Marian Ryan visits Runge & Graf and explains why tea could - or should - be the new coffee... Beat icon Jack Kerouac once described the memory-soaked Proust as “an old teahead of time”—given the seminal role of a pot of tea and some bits of madeleine in the opening of Swann’s Way—and encouraged aspiring writers to be the same. Though the hard-drinking Beat may have been speaking in metaphor, the link between tea and creative inspiration is an article of faith for Berlin tea [...]
Gardening in Berlin
Spring inspiring you to get green fingered? Sanna Akehurst shows us how to get our garden on... Ahh the sun is shining and it's time for me to plan my garden for this year. I scrounge seeds from anyone, and even keep seeds from fruit and herbs that I grew the year before. I've been saving loo roll centers all winter: cut them in half, stand them next to each other in a cat litter tray; fill them with potting compost and sow seeds according to desired effect. Set them on the [...]
Boxhagener Platz Fleamarket
Carlijn Potma takes a stroll around Friedrichshain's Boxhagener Platz... When mentioning the words "fleamarket", "Berlin" and "Sunday", most people instantly think about the weekly happenings down at the Mauerpark or nearby Arkonaplatz. But these are not Berlin's only places for bargain hunters - nor are they the only places with a pleasant Sunday-style atmosphere. Friedrichshain, the Eastern borough known for its rugged atmosphere, squats and underground clubscene, also has a [...]
BIER – Berlin’s no-brand beer
Despite a deliberate lack of branding and/or marketing, Berlin's BIER has created a buzz... Honesty and good taste - figuratively and literally - are what distinguish BIER from other local breweries, according to company founders Johannes Schwaderer and Stephan Alutis. The Berlin duo founded their beer concept as a counter-movement to over-promoted, more commercial brands. According to their manifesto, great taste doesn't need a name - and certainly doesn't need a logo, TV spots, useless [...]
Potatoes Mutatoes
Photographer Uli Westphal has been documenting (and eating) Berlin's mutatoes, "the last survivors of agricultural diversity"... Since 2006, artist Uli Westphal has been collecting, documenting, and eating Berlin’s Mutatoes—the non-standard fruits, roots, and vegetables that can be found at the city’s farmers’ markets. His photographs form an archive of “these last survivors of agricultural diversity,” revealing an incredible variety of colours, curves, and contours. For [...]
Cafe Schönhausen
Pankow's first kindercafe is a colourful and welcoming place... There are many reasons to visit Pankow, one of Berlin's several under-represented boroughs. There’s the pretty Bürgerpark, with its lovely rose pavilions and great cafe ( Rosenstein); the elliptical Majakowskiring, a string of glamorous residences formerly occupied by senior members of the GDR government; the elegant Schloss Schönhausen… Pankow is a good place for families too, visiting or local. Aside from the park [...]
St. Gaudy Café
Carlijn Potma checks out the tasty snacks and convivial vibe at Pberg's St. Gaudy Café... "Human and animal, warm and cool, spacious and cosy" is how St. Gaudy Café, a lively coffee shop on the corner of Schoenhauser Allee and Gaudystrasse, describes itself. As the statement suggests it’s an open, breezy kind of place - something of a neighbourhood favourite in an area of Berlin not especially renowned for its funky caffeine hangouts. A steady stream of people saunter in for [...]
Cookies Cream
Paul Sullivan tries out some innovative vegetarian cuisine at 'underground' restaurant Cookies Cream... The first challenge for any visit to Berlin’s hippest vegetarian restaurant Cookies Cream is finding it. Run by Cookies, veteran party promoter and founder of the popular club located below it, the restaurant adheres to the ‘underground/anonymous’ ethic so popular in Berlin’s house and techno scene. “But it’s located directly above the club”, I hear you cry, “surely it [...]
