Advice for Berlin or Bruges

[Bill4728]

We'll be going to Berlin and Bruges for several days and looking for places to eat and drink. Any ideas?

TIA

 

[Passepartout]

Have you tried Rick Steves' guides? They are updated annually and the '23 version may be out. I know (as does @ScoopKona) that after a place is published, it gets mobbed by American tourists. But that's what you get here, too. Recco's from American tourists.

Jim

 

[Bill4728]

Thanks We have been doing that

 

[ScoopKona]

We'll be going to Berlin and Bruges for several days and looking for places to eat and drink. Any ideas?

TIA

I lived in Berlin for a summer before the wall fell. I haven't been back since. I wanted to take my wife there for our honeymoon. But on the way there, she wanted to take the Rhine train again and we ended up going south instead north; and visiting Austria and Italy instead of the Czech Republic (which remains the European country I haven't visited and want to visit most).

Have you been to Germany before? What they eat in Berlin is basically the same as what they eat in Hanover and Munich. I love German food because it's unfussy, not pretentious, solid, accessible and inexpensive. I'm an enormous fan of Berlin Currywurst. Which is sliced bratwursts and curry sauce over fries. A very strange riff on poutine, and once exclusively sold in the East. I waltzed through Checkpoint Charlie every day and got one. That left me with more money (because the East German Mark had all the value of Monopoly money) for Schultheiss in the clubs in the West.

They're also famous for sweet pastries. But I never once bothered. I'll take a pretzel over a sweet every time.

Schultheiss is the local beer. It's a German pilsner. So it is much like every other light lager in Germany. Non-craft drinkers should watch out for Kellerbier, which is flat (on purpose); and Weisse which is fruity and usually quite sour (and very low alcohol.)