tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-218087232009-02-21T14:16:00.434+01:00Roisin, Heidi and Kelly Ann are blasting through Berlin's brunching hot spots, Bezirk by Bezirk, and sharing the delightful and delicious places that make Sundays oh so much better without doing the dishes.Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16412098476165981922noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21808723.post-1138801924617492302007-01-31T11:30:00.000+01:002006-08-01T10:10:14.726+02:00

DK (Dachkammer) - Simon-Dach-Str. 41, Friedrichshain and Rex Café - 432 S. Burdick, Kalamazoo, Michiganhttp://www.vanishedkalamazoo.com/rex/rex.htm2001 – . I had just left home and had found myself living in Simon-Dach Strasse. Lost, innocent and unable to fend for myself properly at that stage, I relied on friendly pizza and falafel guys to feed me on weekdays. This café took over the honours

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Exx Bar-Cafe, Dieffenbachstr. 58a, Kreuzberg. Brunch €6.50.Falling round the corner to a great buffet brunch is what every true Berliner dreams of. I am no different, which is why I find this place fantastic. The food is decent, the service good, and it was packed with people. What more can you ask? – Roisin

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Lapis Lazuli, Benkertstr. 21, Potsdam, Breakfast from €2.Why Potsdam? Well, we know that Potsdam is actually the capital of Brandenburg, but Berlin’s famous city magazine, Zitty, found it in its hear to include it in a recent review of Berlin’s celebrities, and we followed suit. And what a genuinely good idea that was. We just wandered round the Dutch quarter and found this place. And hey, while

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Cafe Atlantic, Bergmannstr. 100, Kreuzberg. Breakfast from €5Our first brunch in a long time. Why, may you ask such a long an intervening period? Well, I was in Italy, visiting friends, then traveling with family and suffering the travesty that is the Italian breakfast (small coffee and stale croissant if you are asking). Anything would have been better than that crap, and I don’t care how

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Cafe-Restaurant-Miro, Niederbarnimstr. 25, Friedrichshain. Brunch €8. It is the season for goodbye's it would seem. Last week it was a very special lady, Heidi. This week it is no less than two special ladies, Mary and Helen. I went with them and a few of their friends to one of their favourites, Miro in Friedrichshain.OK, let me get the brunch criticism part of this out of the way first. As a

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Restaurant Josephine - Bergmann Str. 97, Kreuzberg (Brunch 8.90 euros)Please see our previous reviews of Josephine: Restaurant Josephine, from 26 Mar 2006 and the comments from 28 May 2006 Were it not for food, drink and celebration, I might never have met Heidi. It was in a forest near York over mouthfuls of mead that we first met. That evening, we were celebrating the Celtic festival Samhain by

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Milagro, Bergmannstr. 12, Kreuzberg, Breakfast from €3.80 to €19.50.Heidi was about to leave, so this was truly a time for departures. However, this really did constitute a departure. This was our first plate ‘brunch’. The unexpected brunch.Let me explain a few things. Perhaps the ‘unexpected’ should come first. For although it is usual for us to have brunch on Sunday it is also usual for us to

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Café November – Husemannstr. 15, Prenzlauer Berg (Sunday buffet 7.50 euros)http://www.cafe-november.de/Please see our previous post for Café November: 8 Jan 2006This Sunday we were wandering around (and trying to avoid a table or café directly on) Kollwitzplatz looking for brunch. It was, contrary to all of our good advice, unplanned, after 11am, and we had no reservations. Foolish.But people

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Frida Kahlo - Lychener Str. 37, Prenzlauerberg (Sunday brunch 8 euros)Today we visited restaurant named for famous Mexican artist Frida Kahlo on Helmholtzplatz. Amidst the roasting July temperatures we dragged ourselves to Frida Kahlo. Dragged you say? Well, God damn, it was hot! And now that I live all the way over in Kreuzberg, I have come to see Prenzlauer Berg as a very far away country.

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Gottlob - Akazienstr. 17, Schöneberg (Sunday Brunch 7.70 euros)Gottlob was an interesting experience punctuated by great company which is always what makes brunch the special time that it is. Heidi and her posse arrived early (10am) to secure us a table, as we were improvising and had made no reservations. Fortunately there were tables outside for the non-reserved crowd, and as the restaurant

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Rote Harfe - Oranienstr. 13, Heinrichplatz, Kreuzberg (Sunday brunch 8.50 euros) http://www.roteharfe.deOur very special guestsThis Sunday we were in Kreuzberg with friends sitting at a roomy table with a Blick* onto fascinating Heinrichplatz. These past four weeks of sticky, hot, unrelenting weather combined with Germany's Fußballfieber**, have tried to melt us all into blobs of ineffectual

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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. - HeidiFinding your way - just a few

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Freischwimmer - vor dem Schlesischen Tor 2, Kreuzberg (at border with Treptow) (Brunch 8.20 euros)While Roisin was whiling away her weekend in Dublin, Kelly Ann and I and a couple of our brunching companions cycled over to Freischwimmer at about 10.30. And it's a good thing we got there early, too, since we had to join the queue to await their 11am opening. Reservations aren't necessary if you

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Tomasa - Motzstr. 60, SchönebergSo we tried to have a brunch buffet at Tomasa. As Kelly Ann said, 'According to Lonely Planet's Berlin guide, it's the best brunch in Berlin, so we decided to put our best up against their best and see who comes out on top.' And Tomasa had no such 'brunch': they had Früstück sans buffet. We left and went to Potemkin where we didn't need a reservation and sat

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Restaurant Potemkin - Viktoria Luise-Platz 5, Schöneberg/Wilmersdorf (Brunch 10 euros)As you may have already read, we ended up at Potemkin by chance. After our enthusiasm was peaked by the reviews of Tomasa but sadly dashed as we searched without luck to find the buffet, we sent an agent (Roisin) to acquire seats at this lovely restaurant sitting on Viktoria Luise Platz. As luck would have it,

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Aretia, Kiefholzstr. 1, Treptow (Brunch 6.50 euros)You can't say we don't try to hit every district in the city! This week we pulled ourselves out of our respective slumbers and made it to Aretia and were again happy we left the house on a Sunday to be fed by someone else. This time we weren't only fed, we were HELPED. To my delight, the staff and the setting kept me at ease while I filled my

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Zitrone Restaurant - Graefestr. 20, Kreuzberg (Brunch 8 euros)Zitrone is a stylish restaurant with wonderful food in Roisin's lovely new neighborhood. A bit too hip for my blood (but then I say that about any place that attracts too much or too pretty of a crowd). While it wasn't even remotely the madhouse that many of our brunches have been, we did have to wait in line for about ten minutes

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Avril Café, Graefestr. 83, Kreuzberg (Sunday Brunch 8 euros)Roisin just moved into the Bezirk* so it's absolutely necessary that we make ourselves 'locals' in as many cafés and restaurants as possible. We love being recognised from our blog when we go out, but in this case, we're hoping that we're most recognisable from being out on the street coming and going. Avril is the kind of place to sit

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Cayetano, Simon-Dach Strasse 14, Friedrichshain (Brunch 8 euros) There's nothing to make you feel like the world is getting smaller everyday than running into a friend from another time, place, country right here in your own newly adopted city. It happened to me once in Monet's Garden in Giverny in 1991 where I ran into someone who had played American Football with my cousin Larry, Jr. So

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EM Bar, Gabriel-Max-Straße 17, FriedrichshainI love May Day. I'm one of those rare Americans who actually knows that May Day first started in Chicago after a labour strike turned riot resulted in the throwing of a bomb at a bunch of cops, killing many. Eight anarchists were found responsible for the bombing, not because they had any role in it but because they were anarchists. Four were hung a

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Maibach - Maaßen Str. 5 (corner of Nollendorf Str.), Schöneberg (Brunch 8 euros)Today we were delighted to spend our morning and a good chunk of the afternoon at a rainbow-bright table in Maibach, between Nollendorfplatz and Winterfeldplatz in Schöneberg. Here are some photos to tease you into giving it a try yourself. - Heidi The happy scene of comfortable seating and a big buffet at Maibach on

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Restaurant Josephine - Bergmann Str. 97, Kreuzberg (Brunch 8.90 euros) This is the brunch to beat. A brunch so good I could have cried. A brunch so good it has awoken within me an unexpected passion for food, has sent me wandering the streets of Prenzlauer Berg on a Monday afternoon, in search not of sustenance, but of culinary experience. A brunch so good Kelly Ann and I returned one week later

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100 Wasser - Simon-Dach Str. / Krossener Str., Friedrichshain (Brunch 8.50 euros, reservations require a 5 euro deposit per person)A small posse of brunching enthusiasts trucked down to Friedrichshain's Simon-Dach Straße once again and threw themselves into Hundertwasser's amazing buffet this Sunday. The Hundertwasser scene Es ist wieder so weit!* Well, spring may finally be on its way, but the

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Gorki Park - Weinbergsweg 25, Mitte (Sunday Brunch 10am-4pm 8 euros) It seems like it has been snowing here for an eternity (well, four months to be exact) and I think I speak for all of us* in Berlin at the moment when I beg God to finally make this all end. Thus far, my cries have been unsuccessful, and so, when I awoke on Sunday morning to yet another snow-filled sky, I contemplated crawling

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Café Morgenland - Skalitzerstr. 35, Kreuzberg (Brunch 9 euros)http://www.cafemorgenland.com/A bowl of fruity goodnessFirst let me moan: I agree with the opinions of Pollas who commented on Metroblogging Berlin's Sunday brunch post recommending this Café. At times I literally had to fight to sit upright in my seat at Morgenland (a seat we reserved 1 1/2 weeks ahead of time) and to beat off

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