We also stopped by a wonderful Syrian bakery in the (predominantly) Turkish neighborhood. I swear if you just went by all the shops lined up on Sonnenallee — halal butchers, over-the-top bridal gown stores, döner, shwarma, falafel, grilled chicken places… you’d think you’re in Istanbul 
Picked up a few treats for our afternoon coffees 
VERY syrupy and enticing!
Love baklawa!!
Actually not syrupy at all. Mostly nutty and on the drier side. I love that it isn’t too sweet 
I withdraw my comment- it was the light in the photography and my bleary eyes!
We have a place the next town over (Sevan, in Watertown, MA) that offers a pistachio baklava that I love! This is now making me think about picking some up!
So much English in European restaurants–their names and their dishes–these days!
Are you referring to any specific menus I posted? Most of them are bilingual online, and usually in print form on site as well. That’s not a very new development, however.
Lotsa Anglos / ex-pats in Berlin (the Williamsburg hipsters long ago discovered us a while ago).
I was referring to the signage at Goldie’s Smashburger, “Best bad food in town”, but I’ve seen English in unexpected places like menu boards in France. Not quite bilingual, since the native language versions aren’t there.
To be fair, they’re selling smashburgers & fries, which I guess was the point of your second sentence. No feasible German translation as marketable or recognizable. Most of the planet has been Americanized at this point 
lot of english on billboards in turkey, greece…
I’ve not been to Turkey or Greece in … 30 years.
A spectacular meal at November Brasserie, a fantastic & ritzy resto in our hood, where the haute volée likes to hang out… but we were here solely for the quality of the fish & the rest of the menu. How nice to be a nepo baby and go here on the regular — but for us it’s def a rare splurge.
We shared a bunch of nigiri & a few other plates, then finished our meal with… MOAR NIGIRI 
(torched salmon & toro nigiri)
(sea bream, toro & hamachi nigiri)
Instead of dessert we shared another plate of nigiri 
Highly recommend, reservations absolutely required.
If we ever get back to Berlin …
Aren’t you in Switzerland? Hop on over
Our first meal (!) this summer at our favorite French bistro, Les Valseuses. It’s THE place to get steak frites in the city, but everything here is usually very good. I was bummed to see that they’d taken the duck rillettes off the menu, however, but we made do with the equally fantastic terrine, served with Armagnac plums and very tart cornichons.
We also shared a trio of deviled eggs that were decidedly underwhelming, especially at 9€ 
The steak frites OTOH was as excellent as ever. Two filets, one with blue cheese sauce, one with au poivre (mine), and an entrecôte with tarragon butter. The frites are fried in beef tallow and are the best fries in the universe. The accompanying salad was a bit of a disappointment. It is usually dressed with a zesty, mustardy dressing that plays nicely against the richness of the fries & meatz, but this time it was lacking zip.
Maybe bc the chef was off that night, as I didn’t see him around. Sunday crew 
We shared a couple of lovely rosés from the Provence, had digestifs of William’s pear & Armagnac, and 3 calvados on the house. It was a good evening
It’s not that simple.
Sorry 
Here’s hoping you can make it back some time!
Happened to be in the Turkish hood around lunch time, so naturally we stopped in at Mardin again & shared 20 of those scrumptious midye & a plate of lamb ribs.
How I love sucking and nibbling on those riblets to get all that delicious crunchy fat & skin.
A lavish brunch at a Russian place that’s been around forever, yet I’d not once been in 25 years (!) despite walking by it many times. It’s on a lively corner near a beautiful old water tower, with many large old trees providing shade from a rather warm day. Both my PIC and I got the eggs benny — his with (very good) bacon,
mine with smoked salmon,
both served on brioche with a basil hollandaise, both fantastic. My bestie had the No. 2 vegetarian breakfast, which was a STOFood: blini stuffed with arugula & cream cheese, organic scrambled eggs, avocado, hash browns with eggplant ragout, hummus, quark pancakes, bread basket.
Fab.
