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).
Nasty shades of the 1930s
Reminds of that one time where the Mrs’ Scottish cousin took us to his favourite Indian restaurant in Glasgow and ordered the spiciest dish they had with a request to make it extra spicy. The waitress looked at him with a sort of are you sure look on her face, but he insisted, bit showing off… He looked like a sweaty red balloon after about a minute of eating and the Mrs and I ended up finishing his dish.
I’m fairly ungerman when it comes to spicy food. Very difficult to get anything that qualifies as really spicy around here.
That is so interesting, reading the different trends of of cuisines around the world in Germany. I guess, the Turkish-German population are the main group so naturally their foods would be more readily available and they probably have the street food shops as well. We have our exotic Indian, Grills, Persian, Turkish, Bangladeshi and Chinese over here in abundance in most towns.
In my local town centre of Ealing Broadway, I have seen Carribean restaurant and the chain restaurant Iguanas which is South American food, Vietnamese street food which is a first. We never had these before Covid except Turtle Bay (Carribean) which was before Covid).
Funnily enough, i have never seen a German or Austrian restaurants in central London even. I am sure there are a few hidden away for the German speaking expats in London.
I was taken here by some friends once:
I can’t speak for the authenticity, but it was pretty good.
I’d take that as an invitation @Maria. Let Cynical choose the wine.
Generous of him.
Kipferl in Camden, and Fischer’s in Marylebone (even though it’s not strictly speaking authentic). There used to be another place in Notting Hill as well although it might have just been a second Kipferl.
All Austrian places so sorry Germans.
No offence taken. It’s not like there’s a massive choice of English restaurants in Germany either, so I guess it’s a mutual thing.
There’s Stein’s Berlin in Kensington (next to or at least near to Goethe Institut), but then I don’t know if it’s good or authentic.
Looked at the menu… They’ve currently got the Spargel thing going, which already makes it somewhat authentic. Most Germans will eat Spargel with anything, in any form, as long as it’s Spargel. Half the country goes Spargel mad when the fricking Spargel season starts.
Our local restaurant are doing a whole Spargelfest.
I mean basically they just seem to add “fest” to an event to mean “and beer”:
Spargelfest - asparagus and beer
Sommerfest - sunshine and beer
Schützenfest - firearms and beer
Oktoberfest - beer and beer
Asparagus! Why it's Germany's favourite vegetable and how to cook it | Euronews.
Great alternative to other side dishes. What’s not to love about white asparagus
pee smelling like it afterwards
It doesn’t taste of anything
I remember going into a restaurant with a few lads once, not sure where they found the waitress they had, or maybe it was her first night taking orders… but when looking through the menu as she was taking the order, one guy asked if they had any asparagus tips -She replied no - but they had Embassy or Benson & Hedges… would they do…?? :0)
Nothing in Germany tastes of anything. My son works in a restaurant kitchen and, if he so much approaches the spice rack, they look at him as if he is a war criminal.
Total nonsense, of course we eat curry in Germany, but we put it on sausage.
The curry in a currywurst is an insult to the name.
There was a German chain called Herman Ze German in London a few years ago; their hotdogs were delicious but the addition of curry was not good. Pity that they shut down as a result of covid.
No it’s not, in England everything just tastes terrible, nothing to be proud of. And currywurst is just typically German. Invented 1949 in Germany.
