Luise Restaurant
Luise Restaurant - Königin-Luise-Str. 40-42, Dahlem Dorf (Sunday brunch 9.90 euros) http://www.luise-dahlem.de/
Today we went to Luise in twee Dahlem Dorf, where we met with friends and sat in their enormous beer garden and spent our morning on their delightful dishes. As Roisin estimates - this ain't the Berlin we're used to, but the food was damned good. - Heidi
Finding your way - just a few steps from the U-Bahn station.
For any foreigner the term ‘another country’ has particular importance. No just because it is a well-known English language bookshop, but because living in Berlin can be, at times, like living in a different civilisation, outside of civilisation almost.
The start to every good brunch is with one of these...
In Kreuzberg, where I live, one is at the heart of such a civilisation. Visitors from outside keep referring to the fact that I live in Germany. ‘No!’ others argue, ‘you do not live in Germany, you live in another civilisation entirely….’
Yes. Those are chantrelles. Wow.
Brunching in Kreuzberg, or in many of the other cafés in Berlin, is like brunching in a foreign land; for other Germans as well as for ausländers* it feels like the multi-cultural mix of home, for anyone else it feels like visiting a deeply foreign land. The contrary applies to me; brunching in Kreuzberg, in all of those Mediterranean/Turkish-inspired brunches is truly home… brunching where they do not exist is truly foreign.
Berliner Schrippe
And so to the Luise brunch. Brunching in Dahlem felt truly like we had left Berlin. No obvious Mediterranean/Turkish influence; but some quality pasta and mushroom salad. Surrounded by the typical residents of Dahlem I felt that I had left Berlin, and had entered Germany. Or perhaps I had just entered a different type of Germany, one that, as a Berliner I am entirely unfamiliar with… - Roisin
And for the finale - dessert!
*foreigners
Today we went to Luise in twee Dahlem Dorf, where we met with friends and sat in their enormous beer garden and spent our morning on their delightful dishes. As Roisin estimates - this ain't the Berlin we're used to, but the food was damned good. - Heidi
Finding your way - just a few steps from the U-Bahn station.
For any foreigner the term ‘another country’ has particular importance. No just because it is a well-known English language bookshop, but because living in Berlin can be, at times, like living in a different civilisation, outside of civilisation almost.
The start to every good brunch is with one of these...
In Kreuzberg, where I live, one is at the heart of such a civilisation. Visitors from outside keep referring to the fact that I live in Germany. ‘No!’ others argue, ‘you do not live in Germany, you live in another civilisation entirely….’
Yes. Those are chantrelles. Wow.
Brunching in Kreuzberg, or in many of the other cafés in Berlin, is like brunching in a foreign land; for other Germans as well as for ausländers* it feels like the multi-cultural mix of home, for anyone else it feels like visiting a deeply foreign land. The contrary applies to me; brunching in Kreuzberg, in all of those Mediterranean/Turkish-inspired brunches is truly home… brunching where they do not exist is truly foreign.
Berliner Schrippe
And so to the Luise brunch. Brunching in Dahlem felt truly like we had left Berlin. No obvious Mediterranean/Turkish influence; but some quality pasta and mushroom salad. Surrounded by the typical residents of Dahlem I felt that I had left Berlin, and had entered Germany. Or perhaps I had just entered a different type of Germany, one that, as a Berliner I am entirely unfamiliar with… - Roisin
And for the finale - dessert!
*foreigners
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