Berlin advice

Donner Dach (lovely felafel wraps) on Simon Dach Straße is cheap street food if you're passing by, seats out from allow you to sit and watch the thousands of wandering leute

Senabel is just around the corner from Simon-Dach-Straße and has great Arabic food, in a city which generally does it really well.

The chain of Nil Sudanese takeaways is really good too for something a bit different.

I didn't really rate Vego.

In Dolores, the burrito bowl meals are amazing, you get just as much filling and wrap, but the wrap is in crispy pieces.

I didn't really rate Vego.

I think this 'vegan junk food' fad will eat itself fairly soon. It's just one of those reactions by some people in the know to 'ah, but veganism is so virtuous and therefore not for me'. Don't get me wrong, there will still be vegan junk food, but I don't think people will put it on quite such a pedestal as at the moment. It'll just become normal and rated in the same way that junk food always is. People will just realise it's not that good.

I've had two good vegan hot dogs so far. One was in 2011 at the London Open when the catering was done by Pogo Café. That was a lovely hot dog. The other was a few weeks ago at VegFest at the Olympia, when I went back for a second Vegusto hot dog even though I was already stuffed. The others I've had were mostly not very memorable.

I may just have contradicted my own point, but hey. :)

There's a classic Berliner Currywurst stand outside Schönhauser Allee S- and U-Bahn stations called Alain Snack, which does vegetarian (probably vegan) Bratwurst, as Currywurst or just mit Pommes.

It's great to feel like an echter Berliner and still get something vegetarian, even if they guy serving does tend to make a jokey comment about you going for the 'weird sausage'.

vegetarian (probably vegan) Bratwurst, as Currywurst or just mit Pommes.

In my experience, the vast majority of veg*n sausages that you can get in Germany contain egg, so that would need checking.

It's great to feel like an echter Bahliner

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Hello all berliners,
Im trying to get a complete bike from berlin to londons london but could do with some help getting it here.

Only issue is the seller wants to be paid in cash/bank transfer. I think this is common within germany though right? The photos are decent and seller has a decent rating 96% of 163 transactions, a few as a seller but nothing of considerable value. Does anyone have time to go and have a look for me? like tomorrow/day after maybe?

Will discuss payment via pm if anyone can volunteer to help me out.

Does anyone have time to go and have a look for me? like tomorrow/day after maybe?

I have asked rodolfo but he might be too busy with deadlines and dont want to miss out on the wheels. The frame and parts are surplus and can sell anything for cheap to whoever collect the bike.

I dont have much to offer in return but will buy you a few pints/food/cinema etc. when you come to london.

Any help would be much appreciated

Where abouts is this bike in Berlin?

• The relevant information missing from that post is that I live in Kreuzberg...
  

Hey Rodolfo, I've only just read this thread in more detail than a glance. I'm here currently, and have been for the last 8 months, I imagine I'll stay for at least a year or two... are you guys riding regularly? I'd be up for meeting anyone cycling here. Currently I've found the cycling community in Berlin is pretty much split between people those riding mountain bikes converted to transport dogs and ultra fast racing cyclists... I'm somewhere in the middle...

I've always enjoyed Cafe Oberholz for a coffee when in Berlin.
http://www.sanktoberholz.de/?page_id=2957&lang=en

If you want a slightly more off the beaten path sight, check out the Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park, and while you are out east, have a coffee in Cafe Sibylle on Karl-Marx-Allee (which is also a tiny museum).
http://www.cafe-sibylle-berlin.de/

Veganz is a good place to start but avoid the posh restaurant they've put in upstairs, the cafe and supermarket on the ground floor has a selection of bagels, wraps and snacks and a whole lot of cake (avocado blueberry and lime cheesecake mmmmm...), smoothies and fancy coffee stuff

tanneb.de/ does vegan waffles (amazing!), around the corner(ish) there's a place called Rootz which also does cake and other cafe stuff.

Voner does excellent seitan doner/kebab type stuff, they had like a garlic tahini sauce, get that on everything...

Delores had some nice veggie/vegan burrito options, apparently it's "like Chipotle but European and better", either way you get a lot of guac and the burritos were the size of my head. Yellow Sunshine does junk food stuff (wheat burgers and things) if you're into that, I wasn't blown away but figured I should probably try a vegan currywurst and then sat in the park opposite drinking beers all afternoon. There was a great Sudanese takeaway nearby too but I can't remember what it was called. Huge portions of idon'tknowwhatbutitwasnice and a load of the Sudanese version of falafel was thrown in by the owner just for having a chat with him it seemed!

Dada falafel was great for falafel, their website isn't that helpful though!

There were a bunch of other good places, I'll ask Lucy this evening as she'll remember what they were called while I can only remember what I ate

I second all of these places, theres loads of Vegan food in Berlin, head in to Kreuzberg and have a look around, almost every other place does at least a vegan option

Does anyone know of any interior design, architectural companies in Berlin that would help design a bar/restaurant? Something not too stark kinda like Katz Orange or something along those lines, I'm just not really sure where to start firms like Drewes and Strenge seem too serious for my drunken rants, thanks for any advice, Jay

firms like Drewes and Strenge seem too serious for my drunken rants

The clue's in the name. :)

tell me about it, my boss sent me to meet them, I turned to the bottle for solace within the hour

Bauhaus?

I wish, but the idea of doing it myself it too much for me to deal with (:
From the permits, buying the property, to forming a German company its been hectic, I've only ever been a bike messenger and at 42 have to try and get serious?!? So the idea of coming through with a design that folk will like feels like to much responsibility for me if that makes any sense

We'll be in Berlin for a few days in mid June: other than welcome advice on what to see (we're interested in art, food, architecture, cycling, walking and history et cetera) we'd also be interested in clean but cheap places to bed down at. Anyone here stay at Hotel OTTO or know someone who has?

Hello,

Out of interest, what made you consider Hotel Otto? I have never stayed there, but see that it's the other side of the Tiergarten, which would put me off as being too far away from Kruezberg, Neukoln, Prenzlauer Berg etc... there might be good reason for that area, but I'd look nearer the East... particularly, East 7 (http://www.eastseven.de/) or my sister Stayed in Plus Berlin on Warschauer Platz and would recommend....

Have you looked at Airbnb?

I'd also recommend AirBnB, especially in Berlin where it seems every other person has their flat on there so there's loads of choice.

A fair few of the flats on AirBnB and VRBO have been taken off the last few months because of the new law against short term holiday rentals, but its true every other person here has a spare flat. Hotel Otto gets packed and pricey if there's a conf on at Messe. I'd agree with Yossarin and go east!
Diner en Blanc will be on around mid June (really friendly), Fete De La Musique is on June 21 (really worth roaming around for), also the CSD parade in in June and worth a look. Try the Kantine on Joachimstrasse 11 for a cheapish good lunch and architecture.

Great suggestions all, thank you.
Otto just appealed to me on some bland=cool level, though I'm definitely checking out AirBnB, we've had good results through them.
Jay75, excellent ideas, I'll investigate them too.

Jay75. any progress on the bar design? i'm a young architect and could possibly be of service. good luck on your ventures anyway, let us know where its at to drink a couple of support beers..

btw youre not the danish guy i met through the forum 'ere in berlin? i checked my pms but you dont seem to be in them..

^that's Nikolas aka ArthurFrayn ,rides a Fondriest track, I've got his number somewhere if you need it but I haven't seen him in a few years
^^Going pretty good, its up in P'berg, been here the last 3 weeks, got the permits for the bar/restaurant/40sqm street seating sorted. Decided on a firm called Novono for the design. Biggest problem is the ventilation, but hopefull open 1st week of June.