Food and Drink, Berlin

Some local inexepensive beers had quite funny labels and names lake this one bottle on my picture: "Kyritzer Mord und Totschlag". It was dunkel beer brewed by Brauerei Dessow (Oettinger).
It was reddish black, mild and rather sweet (chocolate flavour) beer.

When staying in Berlin it's not necessary to have a breakfast possibility included in your accommodation. There are a huge amount of restaurants offering breakfast for reasonable prices and, what's best in my opinion, the breakfast (or brunch if you like) is served until 16pm, in some places even till 17 pm, so you don't have to get up early in the morning just to make it to the hotel breakfast, which usually ends at 10.

On weekends there are big breakfast/brunch buffets served in many restaurants in Berlin, especially in Prenzlauer Berg area. The buffet usually includes a variety of bread, cheeses, cold cuts, fresh fruit, pancakes, to mention but a few. But most importantly, you'll be sure to get your stomach full! You can eat as much as you like for under 10 euros in most places, only drinks are usually not included in the price.

If you happen to be in Berlin on a weekend, your visit won't be complete without trying out a breakfast buffet!

It can only be criminal negligence not to try currywurst, when in Berlin! that is, hot sausage with ketch-up sauce and curry -fries on the side are optional- or the lighter versions of bratwrust, backwurst, etc...
enjoy the crime in full, at the oldest place in town, Konnopke's Imbiss.

Located just under the U-bahn rails of "Eberswalderstrasse" station, on Schönhauser Allee 44a, at Prenzlauer Berg and is open Mon - Fri 06:00 - 20:00, Sat 12:00 - 19:00

Beer is tasty and cheap in Germany. There's a wide selection of Schwarzbier available in supermarkets (Kaiser's and Edeka, for example) just for 70-80 cents. Pretty much all Schwarzbiers are a good go. Dark cherry beer is worth tasting, too. If you want light lager, Berliner Kindl is one of the most popular choices. I also hoped to meet my good Belgian friend Stella in Berlin, but she wasn't there. Fortunately, there are many black replacements to miss Artois in Berlin :)
It's absolutely OK to have a beer on an S- or U-Bahn train in the evening, so enjoy it on the way back wherever you sleep!

Described to me as "fruity & deoicious" - yeah - they saw me coming!!!

It is a light, newly fermented wheat beer that continues to ferment in the bottle. It comes two ways - red or green. I had the red which is mixed with raspberry to give it it's "fruity & delicious" flavour. I found it more like drinking liquid sherbet. It was neither fruity nor delicious and I was certainly not going to give the green version a whirl! - Apparently it is sweet woodruff syrup that gives it the vivid green colour and makes it taste "slightly medicinal" (hmmm, sounds like a corker!!!)

Berliner Weisse Mit Schuss comes in a whopping big glass with a straw and is a Berlin speciality.

In one restaurant I ordered a special kind of drink I had never tasted before. It was called 'Diesel' and was a mix of lager and coca-cola. I must say I didn't have very high expectations on it at first, but when I had a taste of it I found that it was really good! I can't tell for sure where this drink was invented but I haven't come across it anywhere else than in Berlin so far.

No house party is complete without a bottle of bubbly Rotkäppchen sekt. At the entrances to clubs you will find emty bottles of this stuff and seeing a stack of Rotkäppchen bottles together strikes warm feelings in your heart. (Rotkäppchen = little red riding hood) Since France for some reason is the only place with the right to make champagne because of weird copyright laws, Germany makes the fizzy sekt which is basically the same thing except better. ;) It is also known as a really big East German product, so that makes it even better going down!

At every second corner in Berlin you can find these little stands where you can buy a typical german dish, a typical Berlin dish, the Currywurst & Pommes. It is a fried sausage with a tomatoe curry sauce and french fries with it. It is a must do to try one when in the city.