Where are you? Asking for a friend…
I’ve never come across the chain so I couldn’t comment.
It’s not my favourite thing but I do find the Turkish takeaways in Germany to be pretty good.
They can’t do Indian food to save their lives.
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There are decent Indian restaurants, at least in the major cities, but you have to go through A LOT of rubbish ones until you find them.
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I actually found a half decent Indian restaurant near Jever in Friesland, but it’s about a two hour drive for us which seems a bit excessive for a curry.
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I think the food in the chain is really salty and rather one-dimensional compared to the richness that you can get in some places. But then again, it’s based on a sample size of one because once I tried it once, I didn’t really fancy going back.
A random kebab stand in the middle of Unter den Linden was so much richer in flavour.
Don’t get the whole Döner thing to be honest, personally I prefer a Felafel Teller from the Lebanese on Kastanienallee.
As for Indian, I’ve never had anything decent in Germany and the Missus has a lot to say on the subject.
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Don’r get the whole Falafel thing to be honest
Lebanese, not Turkish!
Yes, I can read. Haven’t been to the one in Kastanienallee though.
No, I mean a lot of people only try the Turkish felafels and form a negative opinion from their experience.
Unfortunately, Kastanienallee in Köln doesn’t have a Lebanese 
This looks good though…
It’s strange that German people are often resistant to eating lamb, in my experience at least, but make an exception in the case of Döner.
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Ha, yes I realised you were talking about Berlin. It might shock you, but I’ve been to Berlin… 
even lived there for a year, although that was in the late 90s.
Habibi is mediocre at best. No sane person should eat anything on Zülpicher Strasse except for when totally drunk/drugged.
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No one can say that you don’t get top info on here 
So, the Indian restaurants over there are not great. Which city does decent indian food?
What about Tandoori grills, are they popular?
Also, what about Chinese, Thai, Caribbean, Mexican, North African, i.e Morrocco cuisine?
As for kebabs, I do homemade ones myself.
I have to say, in the UK, ethnic restaurants are great from Carribean, Asian to middle eastern varieties.
Mexican and other South American are getting popular too.
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I’d say nothing Asian apart from one famous Chinese place in Berlin called Good Friends and Vietnamese. A lot of Vietnamese people came to East Berlin during the cold war.
Middle Eastern and Turkish pretty good, but a lot of bad ones too of course.
Otherwise, Italian and Greek. Plenty of immigration from those countries in the post war period.
London is far superior in terms of international cuisine in my opinion.
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I thought Frankfurt would be pretty good for a variety of diffetent cuisine due to it be being the international banking centre.
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Maybe, but no one goes there for the same reason.
In 2003 there were three Döner Shops close to my school ‚fighting’ for clients so they sold their Döner in flatbread between €1,75 and €2,50. Happy days.
The shop with the €1,75 Döner was my favorite. Flatbread freshly made in the wood stove right in front of your eyes. Quality meat. Most of the Döner meat today comes from Poland or other low cost countries. Who knows what’s in there.
Anything above €5,50 is a crime. Hope they do something about it. Fucking Lukas Podolski.
Weird to be honest.
No, and we are struggling to find a good one. One of my colleagues has invited me to this one at the end of the month:
It’s not cheap, though, 21€ for a fairly basic curry. In Germany, Indian cuisine is seen as being highly exotic rather than being the more low-cost working class dining option. Also, Germans don’t like spicy food so you get some of the blandest things imaginable.
I suppose the other thing is that I do tend to compare them to what you get in Britain, or specifically Scotland with us. India is a big country and they have lots of regional variations. What I think of as Indian cooking is basically Punjabi cuisine which has been changed for Scottish tastes (think of chicken tikka masala which originated in Indian restaurants in Glasgow).
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