Alaska Bar – 10/10

Alaska is a tapas bar in Reuterkiez, with – ambitiously – an all-vegan menu, recreating everything from tortilla de patatas to aïoli and various types of cheese. They also have a lot of nice drinks and cocktails, and it feels, in a very Spanish way, much more like a bar with some food than a …

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Futura Neapolitan Pizza – 8/10

Futura is a new pizza restaurant near Samariterstrasse, opened by a chef who used to work for Standard, widely considered one of the best pizza restaurants in Berlin. They are really trying to sell themselves on their artisan pizza and top quality ingredients - it’s the kind of place which appends DOP to every second …

Al Pasha – 8/10

I have very happy memories of the outrageous amounts of food I ate on a trip to Beirut in February, and luckily Berlin makes it quite easy to get a Lebanese food fix; Neukölln is the obvious place, but agreeably for me there are also plenty of options near my office in Moabit (Big Bascha …

Alverdes – 9/10

A two-course meal in a moderately fancy restaurant with huge windows and lovely views of the Kleiner Tiergarten park is quite a nice way to break up the day, so I’m lucky Alverdes is right next to my office. Even better, the weekday lunch menu is only €7.50, which given the quality and portion sizes …

Liu Chengdu Wei Dao – 7/10

Since opening late last year, Liu Chengdu Wei Dao has been all over Instagram, at least if you follow as many Berlin food bloggers as I do. To be honest, it made me not want to go there; there are a lot of interesting restaurants to try in Berlin and I think it’s quite boring …

Smokey Greens @ Daheim – 8/10

You wait ages for the Beyond Burger to come to Germany, then they all come at once: first Vincent Vegan, then the CBS Burgers & Wings pop-up, and now another pop-up in Daheim Manufaktur (the same venue that Burnin’ Noodles started out in before moving to Panda Noodle). Smokey Greens opened this week and will …

Vagabund Taproom – 9/10

When I think of craft beer in Berlin, I normally think of pretentious places in Mitte where you pay a lot for the beer and then a bit more for the faux-Scandi aesthetic (the honourable exception is Hops and Barley in Friedrichshain, which is superb and exceptionally good value). However, take the U6 up to …