german foods to try out while there

[Anonymous No.17609655]

I'm currently staying just outside of Berlin for at least a fair while and am wondering if you folks can recommend anything to try out while here beyond mediocre kebabs made by the same three meatpacking plants?

[Anonymous No.17609669]

>>17609655
mett, doner kebab, and anything bavarian

[Anonymous No.17609704]

>>17609655
Berlin is the worst part of Germany. Bavaria is the only worthwhile part of the country, especially for food.

Try to get some rouladen, schweinshaxe, or sauerbraten. Leberkäse on a bread roll with ketchup is also a nice quick meal. Also try as many of the sausages as you can (no homo).

[Anonymous No.17609710]

mars bar nope it sucks and kipnugget

[Anonymous No.17609846]

>>17609655
Berlin is not the best place to go for german food. They have some decent ethnic food and a lot of hipster food, less so good german food.
The only thing I can think of is maybe currywurst, where you can have some east and west german currywurst depending on where in the city you get it.
It's been a while since I've been to berlin but I don't remember specifically what I ate there or where, which is usually a bad sign.
Maybe some other anons there have some good tips, I'm normally from southern germany so I know a lot more about the food there.

Here's just some good german foods copy pasted from another thread I posted in, though none of these are from berlin maybe you get lucky and find a decent place that sells them for a reasonable price:
Knödel
Spätzle
Flammkuchen
Schweinshaxe
Spießbraten
Sauerbraten
Sauerkraut and Rotkraut
Sausages in more varieties than you can count
Maultaschen
Spaghettieis
Rouladen

[Anonymous No.17609861]

>>17609846
A bunch of those things are best had in the south, so your original statement holds true.

[Anonymous No.17610381]

don't misch the fisch semmel

[Anonymous No.17611583]

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[Anonymous No.17611587]

>>17609704
>Berlin is the worst part of Germany.
>>17609846
>Berlin is not the best place to go for german food.

You can find anything in Berlin that you can find anywhere else. Probably not in the generic tourist places, but it's all there, especially on the outskirts.

[Anonymous No.17611608]

Crispy Pork Knuckle – known in Germany and Austria as Schweinehaxe

[Anonymous No.17611775]

>>17609655
Some other foods that are more "northern germany", since the ones I thought of in >>17609846 are mostly southern german foods (since that's what I know):
Rote Grütze
Rollmops
Various forms of fish, especially "fischbrötchen" as a to go snack.
In general northern german foods tend to be either centered around fish or very "heavy". Subtlety isn't their strength. A traditional northern german food for example is "grünkohl mit Pinkel", which is kale with a type of sausage. Very greasy, very intense, a winter dish and usually only something you'd eat while getting shitfaced. Not sure I can recommend it.

One good thing comes to mind though that you absolutely should try: Compared to other countries germany is obsessed with asparagus. It's a whole thing here, when asparagus season starts. We have a shitton of methods to prepare it and it's a truly great dish. Since asparagus season is starting soon (I saw the first asparagus in stores a few days ago, the ones raised with plastic covers as a makeshift greenhouse), make sure to try some asparagus dishes while you are here.

>>17609861
>A bunch of those things are best had in the south, so your original statement holds true.
Yeah, as I said I am from the south and I know the food of the south more.
>>17611587
You can find everything, the question is can you find it in decent quality and for a fair price. I can find döner in istanbul and I can find Schnitzel in france, but they won't be as good as in the right cities in germany.

[Anonymous No.17612130]

Can anybody recommend some good or interesting restaurants either in Berlin or Potsdam by chance?

[Anonymous No.17612157]

>Räucheraal
>Backfischbrötchen
>Schweinshaxe
>Flammkuchen
>Apfeltasche
>Kasslerbraten
>Knipp/Grütze (on a dark bread with butter)
>Kohl und Pinkel

[Anonymous No.17612176]

>>17611608
Schweinehaxe is great but the way the sauce is over the rim on that plate gives me anxiety.

Also seconding Grünkohl. German/Scandinavian kale dishes are excellent.

[Anonymous No.17612192]

Look up dishes made by Veronica Moser on Google images. She makes some great food.

[Anonymous No.17612305]

>>17612192
Curse you, Mr. funnyman

[Anonymous No.17612345]

>>17609704
Nonsense. Schwarzwald, Eifel, Sauerland are European top tier too.

German white wines are world class but not cheap. The food along the Mosel/Rhein/Donau rivers where those wines are grown is as good and perfectly affordable.

Berlin is like any big city/harbour. You go there for Michelin tier restaurants or precisely because it's so international.

I can't name a single town in Germany that has bad bread or poor breakfast. Not even a hellhole like Leipzig, 6 years after the wall fell.

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bumping

[Anonymous No.17615078]

bümp

[Anonymous No.17615135]

>>17611608
Mexicans have a similar dish, interesting

[Anonymous No.17616690]

blamp

[Anonymous No.17617125]

find a proper bakery and enjoy some really good shit

also, i have had the best crepes of my life in germany

[Anonymous No.17617133]

>>17609846
I would also add just a simple Leberkäse Semmel and Bosner... both are below everything on that list and very simple kinda cheap fast food things but ohhhh sooo tasty.

[Anonymous No.17617195]

speaking of kraut food, what's everyones opinion on east german (ddr) cuisine?

[Anonymous No.17617298]

>>17617195
I would unironically eat that

[Anonymous No.17617469]

>>17617195
Most of it was born out of necessity and has become obsolete now that the circumstances have gotten better. Sure if you grew up with it the nostalgia carries the dish, but in absence of that nostalgia it's not that great.
I made it once because I believe you should give most things a try before judging them and honestly DDR jägerschnitzel tastes better than it looks (Fried sausage with ketchup sauce and pasta sounds disgusting on paper in my opinion). That being said it's not something I would add to my normal dishes and make again.
Similar things apply to other DDR ingredients, like their weird DDR worcestershire sauce. But they also have some great ingredients, I like salty DDR salmiak liquorice for example.

[Anonymous No.17617475]

>>17609655
Izmir koftecisi @ kotti. Mettbrötchen from a real butcher.

[Anonymous No.17617514]

>>17609655
You can try Berliner Leber, it's amazing but I don't recall whether it is actually something local from Berlin.

[Anonymous No.17617691]

>>17609704
>Leberkäse with Ketchup
Fucking gross, you eat that stuff pure.

[Anonymous No.17619262]

blimp