Lovely readers. I am back from the loveliest and my new favorite city, Berlin!
I was there for a program related to my work and loved every second of it. My eyes teared a little when the plane landed in Kuwait. I was in denial. I did not want to leave!
The streets, the museums, the parks, the canals, the lakes, the shops, the bakeries and Oh My! Oh My! the best and most perfect bread I have ever had in my entire life! I overdosed on every kind of bread with every meal!
crumbles and strudels
bread and bread and bread
And now let me show you a couple of pictures from the streets of Berlin
holocaust memorial
And now to the museums…
Altes Museum
Inside the Jewish Museum
The Pergamon
Inside the Pergamon
Display at the cafeteria of the Ethnology Museum
Since I was part of an official delegation, we didn’t really get to experience fine dining, except for the one time at the German Foreign Office (Foreign Ministry) where we were invited to the restaurant of the foreign ministry itself! I tried for the first time venison and I quite liked it! And finished off our meal with an excellent creme brulee topped with fresh, plumb berries.
Up until the last few days in Berlin, I had yet to try German food so my sister and I asked the concierge for an authentic German “rustic” restaurant. We were recommended to the one below, Leibniz-Klause. We arrived and it was packed and filled with the elderly! So it had to be good. We were sadly turned away as there were no tables available.
Leibniz-Klause
We walked around that beautiful street tired and hungry and saw this!
Nubaumerin Restaurant
It had a lovely atmosphere and the Chef himself came to serve our main dishes! And the food was even lovelier!
bread with bean spread
Goat cheese encrusted with chopped chives on top of sweet tomato relish and accompanied with lightly dressed lambs lettuce
My sister's dish - goulash with a large potato dumpling
My dish - pike perch
And then of course we had to have an apple strudel! And it was yummy!
Apple strudel
And this my lovely readers, concludes my Berlin post.
I want to go back….
The Oven Experiments 
el 7amdilla 3la el salama…now I want to visit Berlin!
Yallla ana wiyach!
Abi goulaaash 😦
maybe that’s what your next cooking post should be on :p
That’s an idea! Although I have so many ideas piling up in my head!
I never liked German people but, year after year, i realised that i only never liked them because i never really understood them, never understood their dry sense of humour and their attitude .. once someone is welling to do that, they are a very easy going bunch of folks
German and Bread.. simple answer, things are just fresh..just like the rest of Europe!
i was stuck for an opinion from the sales lady at designer’s shop at a duty free shop in Frankfurt, she urged me to get the bigger bag for my mother because, its large enough for the LOAF of bread if she wants to go grocery shoppin! It was an easy choice then, i got the smaller bag!
hahaha my bag was big enough to grab a loaf of bread and 5 pretzels! But with the bread, I don’t know it’s just different. It’s perfect! I have tried bread in other countries in Europe and it’s not the same.
And regarding the people, they are dry!