Nudelbude – 10/10

Nudelbude is a small, cosy, candlelit restaurant off Sonnenallee serving utterly delicious homemade pasta. You can choose from any of their sauces and one of three pasta shapes to put together your own bowl of comforting, carby goodness, or go for one of the daily specials (käsespätzle on Wednesday, gnocchi on weekends…) For handmade pasta, …

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 …

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 …

Ya Me Num Num’s – 9/10

I’m really not sure about the name, but Ya Me Num Num’s – a newish brunch place fusing classics like French toast and eggs Benedict with Asian influences – is charming in every other way. It’s in a very unassuming area near Boddinstrasse which currently has a lot of construction work going on, but step …

Brammibal’s Donuts – 9/10

There can’t be many better places to spend a bizarrely, unseasonably sunny Saturday afternoon in February than Maybachufer, and since I have some life admin to catch up on, I took my laptop and a book to Brammibal’s. This vegan donut shop has become pretty iconic in Berlin, expanding successfully from its original Kreuzkölln location …

Burgers & Wings @ CBS Kitchen & Shop – 9/10

Crazy Bastard is a Berlin-based manufacturer of gourmet hot sauces, one of which once famously left me in tears for an hour at a house party after I thought it would be funny to eat a spoonful of it. They have a small shop on Weserstrasse which also hosts food pop-ups on weekends, and last …

The Future Breakfast – 8/10

First, sorry for the lack of posts recently! I’ve just started a new job and it’s been taking up most of my mental energy. Things are going well, I feel quite settled and I want to start posting more reviews again. It’s good timing, as my friend took me to a new brunch place this …

Dschungel – 9/10

There’s a certain look the bars in Berlin all seem to have. You know the one: candles and low lighting, dark wood walls,  distressed but comfortable furniture, and an assortment of quirky flea-market ornaments dotted around. If you don’t, I suggest checking out Luzia, Fitcher’s Vogel, Mano, Das Hotel…I could go on. I don’t mean …

Falafel Jakoub – 8/10

Hermannplatz isn’t an area that’s short of falafel; come out of any U-bahn exit and you're immediately surrounded by options for a quick, cheap on-the-go meal. However, it’s undoubtedly worth making the effort to venture slightly further away from the station, because Falafel Jakoub is a seven-minute walk away, five if you’re hungry, and their …

Gazzo – 8/10

Gazzo is a slick new pizza restaurant near Schönleinstrasse, and the first thing I have to say is that their social media game is impressive. In the six weeks since they opened it seems like every Instagram blogger in Berlin has visited; their own account is likeable and makes everything look unutterably delicious. Even though …