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Favorite Berlin Restaurants

Friday, February 5th, 2010

Here are some of our favorites. Please leave a comment below and share yours. Cheers!

Maria Peligro (Mexican)

Dolores Burrito

Cafe do Brasil (the have the best buffet I’ve ever had…in my life! Tues-Thurs?)

Bar-Celona (Spanish Tapas & Paellas–I’m not sure that this is amazing food, but it takes me back to BCN, so…)

SUMO (Japanese)

3 MOMS (Vietnamese)

Ixthy’s (Amazing Korean Imbiss in overwhelmingly religious environment)

Ron Telesky’s Canadian Pizza

Bejte Ethiopia

Casalot (“Arabian”)

Le Cochon Bourgeois (Though prohibitively expensive French fare, the best food I’ve had in Berlin)

Weinstein (best German cuisine I’ve had?)

Italian Resaturants:

Bar Centrale

Knofi (Italian – and has a cute market across the street)

Malatesta (Best Italian in Berlin?)

Osteria No. 1 (nice garden in rear that backs up to Viktoria Park)


Some Berlin Music I Like

Monday, February 1st, 2010

This is far from an exhaustive list, but after a couple of years here, I figure that I should at least begin to compile a list [for Andrea]. These are some of the MySpace pages of some Berlin-based artists that I’ve seen and liked:

If you’ve found a Berlin-based artist that you recommend, please post a comment below.

17 Hippies (mostly acoustic French-American-German neo-folk something or other)

King Khan and the BBQ (surfer, punk soul review. AMAZING live performances!)

Pescadores de Ventanas (all over the place)

Eb Davis Band (blues and soul. Bobby Bland style)

Terrence Bowery Band (soul)

Reggie Moore (jazz piano)

Mike Russell (hollow-body, G. Benson guitar jazz-soul)

Tom Blacksmith & The Soulminers (poppy, playful blues)

Ryan Jacobs (US-Paris-Berlin singer-songwriter)

DJ Mark Hype (spins old soul records)

7th international literature festival berlin 14-16 September

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

At over 200 events in 13 days, audiences will have the chance to get to know internationally renowned authors, in addition to discovering new voices from contemporary literature.

Pulitzer Prize-winners Paul Muldoon (GB) and Jorie Graham (USA), celebrated French novelist Jean Rouaud and best-selling Canadian writer Jane Urquhart are among the 22 authors nominated by the Literatures of the World jury.

Writers who will read from their works in the Kaleidoscope section of the festival include Nobel Prize laureate Wole Soyinka (Nigeria/USA), the winner of the 2007 Büchner-Prize, Martin Mosebach (Germany), the author of the best-selling Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk (USA), along with Roberto Saviano (Italy), Antonio Lobo Antunes (Portugal), Isabel Allende (Chile/USA), Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru), Aharon Appelfeld (Israel), Wladimir Kaminer (Germany), Elif Shafak (Turkey), Julia Franck (Germany), A.L. Kennedy (GB), Michael Ondaatje (Canada) and Nicholas Shakespeare (GB).

Read more here

General Info on Berlin

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

New Berlin Magazine

A guide to Berlin’s Districts

Time Out Guide Online

Exberliner.com

Berlininfo.com

Berlin.de

The Berlin Paper

Find out what’s happening at Zitty

What’s to do in a weekend in Berlin? This blog offers options

Sign and Sight

howtogermany.com

NPR Berlin

German News…In English

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

Here is a list of German periodicals, some of which are available in English

Speigel International in English

Official news from Die Bundesregierung

Selected stories concerning Germany from MyExpatica

Deutschland Online

The American Institute for Contemporary German Studies from The Johns Hopkins University

Gastronomy

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

Soon enough I will be able to make recommendations based on my dining experiences. Until then, here are some guides to dining in Berlin:

Fodor Picks

Frommer Picks

Yahoo! has a decent guide where you can sort by cuisine, neighborhood or atmosphere

New Berlin Magazine

Time Out highly recommends Malatesta for (and here are “The Ten Best” Italian Restaurants)

Where to brunch

Seven exotic restaurants

Sumo is highly recommended Japanese food (and affordable)

Get your California Burritos here

I don’t know if the Bangkok Restaurant is good. However, I do know that it is in my hood and cheap.

Here are some more dining establishments in my hood. These are in Freidrichshain and these are in Kreuzberg. Any recommendations for me?

I know that my grandma would recommend these kosher places.

Got Soul?

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

I can’t say that I am a club kid at all. But new city, new ways.

I am looking for clubs that play Soul Music & Funk. Bear in mind that Soulful Funk does not mean Electronica nor House in my world.

So help a brother out, where can I groove to P-Funk and the Greyboy All-Stars and lounge with The Delfonics and Al Green?

Perhaps Pavillon?

Help Please!

I’ll be looking in the Zitty Music Listings for something to dig on

Get Hep

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

The jazz scene in Berlin is rumored to be hot. Here are a few club listings.

Take the A-Trane

B-Flat

Be-Bop Bar

Quasimodo

JazzKeller 69

A list of 20 Jazz Clubs (please tell me which ones I should visit)

Berlin Jazz Fest 2007!!!

Again, PLEASE leave a post if you recommend a particular club or artist.

Low Cost Airlines in Germany

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

Synopsis of alternatives from howtogermany.com

Third Part Search Engines:

edreams

Kayak

German Companies

German Wings

Air Berlin

TUIfly

Condor

British Companies

Clickair

Ryan Air

Easy Jet

Of course you can always take the train

The Great Escape

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

If you need a simple escape (which you might use as an excuse to foster your German language acquisition) lose yourself in original version films:

A list of original version theatres

Show times are listed here

Enjoy open air cinema while it lasts

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