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Berlin Flavors
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Berlin Flavors There are many restaurants and cafés in Berlin, serving every imaginable kind of food. The most popular restaurant areas are around Savignyplatz and Hardenbergstrasse and on the Ku'damm, and all buzz late into the night. Berlin has a larger Turkish community than any other city outside Turkey, and many live in the old quarter of Kreuzberg, where inexpensive Turkish meals are served in dozens of restaurants, especially in the neighborhood of Kottbusser Tor. Kaffee und Kuchen (coffee and cakes) is an institution, usually indulged at about 4 p.m., but it doesn't come cheap. The café that started it all - Café Kranzler, which opened in 1835 - still operates on the Ku'damm. Heavy, hearty German food can be sampled all over the city, in restaurants or in a tavern (Kneipe). There are more than 4,000 taverns, many offering Hackepeter (meatloaf), Aal grün (eel in parsley sauce) and Solei (pickled eggs). If you find the traditional fare daunting, try the lighter new German cuisine (neue Deutsche Küche) at restaurants such as Trio, on Klausenerplatz. Beer is, of course, a favorite beverage. One custom is to have a Korn - a light beer with a Schnapps chaser; another, a summer choice, is Berliner Weisse mit Schuss, light beer turned pink with raspberry liqueur or green with extract of woodruff. |
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