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Restaurants
Berlin offers a wide range of different cuisines. Visitors may be surprised to find more international restaurants as typical dishes from Germany. Very popular are the Steak-Houses, Italian and Arabian dishes. However, in Berlin you can find nearly every kind of international food.
German people like to have their food on the buffet style: sausage, cooked eggs, sauerkraut, potatoes, ham, much sorts of cheeses, yoghurt, müsli and an extensive list of juices - everything what you desire. Some cafes and bars offer a huge brunch on Sundays. This small weekend-event could take a long time, sometime until the late-afternoon.
Berlin’s Cuisine
Formed by early influences of other regions of the country as well as France the traditional cuisine of Berlin is very simple and native. Normally the food is prepared without a lot of flavoring. Typical ingredients are: goose, pork and fish like zander and eel. Furthermore there are nice combinations with a lot of vegetables like cabbage and pulses as well as potatoes which came in the country to the 17th century.
Traditional dishes are knuckle of pork (Eisbein), brisket of beef (Rinderbrust) and roast goose (Gänsebraten) combined with vegetables like sauerkraut, kale and dumplings. Berlin is famous for its potato-salad, fried or raw hash, black pudding and latke (Kartoffelpuffer). There is a lot of meat in the food, but also vegetarians do not get a raw deal.
Because of the traditional breweries in Berlin you can find a lot of different kinds of beer – Engelhardt, Schultheiss und Kindl. A speciality in summer is the ‚Berliner Weisse’ which is a special wheat beer flavored with rasperry or woodruff. When it comes to desserts and sweets Berlin people like Spritzkuchen, puffs (filled with whipped cream) and the tradional pancakes (filled with marmelade or plum-jam).
In addition to all these traditional food including sausages-booths you can find a lot of snack-bars and Fast-Food-Franchiser there. Furthermore, the Döner-Kebab very is famous in Berlin and can be found at nearly every corner. Most of these shops are the only ones opened 24 hours.
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