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blah i miss my phone, and all the notes i wrote myself in it, my periodic alarms reminding me not to spazz out on one project too long, the camera. i thought to myself the telephonics i could live without, but the camera i find really hard not to have on hand. i saw at least 3 good patterns to photograph today as i was walking my borrowed broken down bike to my borrowed (but nice) room. the phone was in the first place found in the park abandoned in vienna. easy come, easy go.
Ive posted another iTunes mix of my monthly DJ selections, favorite tracks and subliminal lyrical messages. Its been about a year since my last one but I have caught up with posting them, although if there is one thing I have managed to accomplish consistently every month is to compile my monthly compilation, hence i bring you, edition 61, dating back to January this year. Ive resolved also to bring you up to July’s edition, 67 over the next few days.
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One of the staples of the Berlin diet, found on any street corner is the classic Halbes Hänchen. Cheap, delicious, and the possibility to be quite healthy. If you are living on a shoestring budget, this is your best bet. Its nowhere near as salty and dubious as a Döner kebap, and with bread, salad or fries its really a full meal. There are several places that specialize in this particular dish although most Kebap stands also have chickens on the menu.
At the foot of Görlitzer park on Skalitzer straße you can find one of Kreuzberg’s best, ‘Hühner Haus’. This place is absolutely packed on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon, and the queue can be long, with very few seats available. Here the chicken is light meat, well cooked and soft, and the sides of fries or salad are the perfect size. If you can’t wait, theres another one just further west on Skalitzer straße on the corner of Oranien straße. Theres a little more room and a public seating area often occupated by earthy street punk/rockers for that special x-berg atmosphere. Here I found the meat not quite as quality as Hühner Haus, but of negligible difference. More towards Neukölln direction on Sonnenallee somewhere around the corner of Pannierstraße, you’ll reach City Chicken, which also has a reputation as one of the best in Berlin. I’ll write about them another time. In the area of Mitte, directly on Rosenthaler Platz is my all time favorite, Rosenthaler Schlemmerbuffet (Schlemmer (noun): glutton / schlemmen (verb): to feast). This is a full size Imbiss (Restaurant) with a large menu including pizzas, kebaps, gulasch and Börek. But their chicken (and chicken Döner) have been some of the best I;ve ever had, especially since this is often directly on the way home after a long night out in Mitte, and they are open 24 hours. If you’re eating in, their portions of salad and fries are huge, and youll get sauce and bread on the side (maybe you have to ask). The staff is energetic and friendly especially to return customers, speak adorably broken english, excellent german and fluent turkish. although that goes for pretty much every shop of this kind Berlin. I would warn against the pizzas here though as they are expensive and not very good. You want pizza, theres plenty of better options.
Hühnerhaus
Görlitzer Straße 1
10997 Berlin, Deutschland
City Chicken
Sonnenallee 59, 12045 Berlin
Rosenthaler Schlemmerbuffet
Rosenthaler Str. 1, 10119 Berlin