Eating fast food al fresco in Berlin
To start this trip around the world we stop at America. Mexico is at Wiener Strasse 15 in Kreuzberg thanks to the tacos and quesadillas at ** Chaparro **, where they even dare to sell horchata. But the new star of Berlin fast food is burritos . In Neukölln, Burrito Baby (Plfügerstrasse 11) offers them only for vegetarians and its cashew cream is very popular. The most "gourmet" option , so to speak, is that of the Californian style of pains , at Rosa-luxemburg-strasse 7 (Mitte district) . They have just opened a store on Wittenbergplatz in the Charlottenburg neighborhood.
Tacos al pastor
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A charming Lebanese couple wears the King of Falafel (Graefestrasse 9), a place that lives up to his name located on a street near Hermannplatz. Despite the small size of the premises, the variety and quality of a menu that, of course, is ' vegan-friendly' . The soups, sauces and hummus are to remember.
As international as it has become, pizza is an italian thing . The three trattorias where you can find the best and cheapest offer share an owner and ensure a noisy and chaotic atmosphere typical of the transalpine country throughout the city: Il Casolare (Grimmstrasse 30 in Kreuzberg), Il Ritrovo (Gabriel-Max-Strasse 2, in Friedrichshain) and I Due Forni (Schoenhauser Allee 12, in Prenzlauerberg).
Baguettes with minced meat ( kofte ) of Gel Gör Inegol Köfteci they are available 24 hours a day. They are especially popular and break with the hegemony of the kebab at number 80 of the Kottbusser Neukolln Damm . If we dare to include sushi in the category of fast food, that of Musashi , at number 102 on the same street, competes alone in the kingdom of turkish gastronomy . It has a very good value for money and the ideal is to order it to go, because it repeats the model of a tiny place always crowded in Japanese places.
curried forcefulness
But the classic of the city are the imbis , kiosks with easy-to-prepare food whose name refers to the word "nibble" . The same street has two of the most popular. The generous portions of currywurst at the curries 36 (Mehringdamm 36) try to satisfy the hundreds of visitors who visit the place every day, omnipresent in all travel guides. It has been a reference for more than 30 years of what is one of the most typical dishes of Berlin because it offers the best version of a recipe that is not exactly haute cuisine: cooked or grilled German sausage, ketchup and curry powder.
curries 36
On days of good weather, the queue to buy a Kebab from Mustaphas (Mehringdamm 32) goes as far as Curry 36. Its secret is to add fried potatoes, peppers and roasted aubergines to the (chicken) meat and salad. It tastes great and is not particularly greasy. The minimum wait in single file is usually about ten minutes, even if it rains, freezes or shines. And it is also one of the cheapest kebabs in a city with rock bottom prices (although less and less noticeable) .
the berlin kebab