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Best of 2010: What's new on Berliners' plates

Korean and Mexican were all the rage this year, meanwhile Berlin proves that even the our cold winters couldn't keep out the frozen yogurt wave.

Dec 28, 2010 by in Restaurants (1 Comments)

Turkish food: Ku'damm fiasco, Moabit gem!

Tuğra sounded intriguing: Turkish on Ku’damm. But how fragile the restaurant's facade of civility proved to be... Still, there are delights to be eaten elsewhere - at Balikci Ergün.

Aug 13, 2010 by in Reviews (4 Comments)

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Salamat: Iraqi couscous?

When you go to a restaurant that advertises couscous – in this case Iraqi-style – you just wish they’d cook the semolina right. But everything else at Salamat passed the mark.

Nov 21, 2011 by in Reviews (1 Comments)

Manouche: Crepe cavern

A cellar café-bar that indulges in bohemian excess, at least when it comes to the ambience, vaguely harking back to an imaginary past – Manouche is the third in our "French on a budget" series.

Oct 25, 2011 by in Reviews

Chez Ginette: Prenzl-French

The most expensive of our ‘cheap French’ trio but nonetheless surfing the nouvelle vague of down-to-earth Gaul-grub, Chez Ginette, is also one of the tiniest restaurants in town, but a satisfying meal.

Oct 11, 2011 by in Reviews

Chez Michel: A bistro like home

Ask Françoise what she misses about home: an unfussy French place like Chez Michel, a small restaurant where the food is well executed behind a simple Imbiss counter.

Oct 5, 2011 by in Reviews (2 Comments)