That is Berlin curry sausage at its best. Hi
, I'm Chef Tim, native of Berlin, and
today I show you 4 destinations where I think we
have the vibrant flavor of Berlin on the palette.
This is where the chefs eat. The most important
street food in Berlin, of course, is curry
sausage. There's nothing like that, not one day
in my life without a curry sausage. Kidding?
Yeah, a bit, but come on, I
show you saucer saucer. The curry sausage, first
of all, is something where you get a sausage
, which is pan-fried and then served normally with a
curry sauce, means it's a tomato sauce flavored with
curry powder. But here, even more special,
we have one layer up that means he has a
very fruity tomato sauce, and then all is topped
with the spicy. And add additional with onion cubes
, flavored sauce, and then the curry powder comes
on top, so it's like a perfume of curry
. Then you dig deeper in, you have the
sweetness of the tomatoes, the spiciness of the house
sauce, and it's just a dream of flavors.
That is Berlin curry sausage and it best. To
me it's part of my DNA, you know,
I've grown up with that. It always feels like
home. It's like 40 minutes driving through Berlin,
but I get that for myself like every 2 to
3 weeks. I need it. I'm a native
of Berlin, growing up in Kurtzberg, an area
which was at that time in the west part of
Berlin. The city is not divided anymore, but
it is different because if people are raised in a
communism area for more than 4 decades, they have
a different mindset than people. Who comes from the
free Western world. The funny thing is that we
have so many things in common, but in the
western part we are much more raised with food from
Turkish immigrants as well as Chinese and Thai. In
the eastern part, there is more influences of Vietnamese
people because they also came from a communist regime and
they were living in the east part. The Turkish
flavors, these are the ones which influenced me the
most. The next spot is Mustafa's Gu music kebab
. What is really special is the Berlin doughnut.
It is crispy chicken, it's fresh salad, it's
of course, two sauces, spicy sauce and garlic
sauce, and toasted bread, and you have crunchiness
, freshness, it's vibrant. That is Berlin,
100%. I I I thought I was. I
, I will never forget that classmates of mine brought
food in the school and that was, to be
honest, the best time I had in school because
I didn't like it. And always I had the
feeling that I have a roller coaster drive from my
palate. Every detail is made with a perfection like
your a Michelin star doughnut kebab. Everything is cut
by hand, the meat perfectly balanced, flavored and
crispy. The sauces with the spiciness really bites you
, the garlic one. All together. Of course
it's also the homemade bread. They bake like 1012
times per day that it's still crispy outside and fluffy
inside. This to me is by far the best
doughnu kebab Berlin inside you can get on the whole
planet. To get the news about the new open
restaurants popping up all the time all over Berlin.
I'm always watching Berlin food stories on Instagram, and
of course once per year with the Michelin is giving
stars to restaurants. You cannot say that there is
one particular area for the best food. In Berlin
that is spread around the city, but to me
, for Asian food, go forantra. If you're
looking for Turkish food, go to Kreuzberg and at
least if you want to come to the best restaurants
, it's always Kreuzberg maybe because my main restaurant is
there also. Next up, Madam No. The
restaurant Madam No belongs to Duc. Chef Duc is
an amazing uh guy with a Vietnamese heritage, and
here in the Madam No, he is chering his
mother. I cannot have only one this year.
I need to have 2. It's the bumbo Nambo
, which is a kind of a rice noodle salad
, and they have 3 kinds of pork belly,
and I'm totally addicted to it. Day, messy
. Ah, so you pull the gear. I
knew that. Hm. And it's like with every
bite you feel the heart which is in every dish
. It's so heartwarming. There's so much love,
it's the love. Mother know gave to look no
. To me it's always like being close to the
kitchen is the best seat, and especially here in
that place, you don't come for a date night
or something like that. You just drop in,
you eat 1520 minutes and then you go. And
now it's the last stop and we are coming to
the highest level of food to fine dining. The
Trek is a restaurant which is run by Ilona and
Max, chef and owner, and they have a
very own way how to handle people. Iluna is
doing a service one of a kind. She's so
heartful. You really feel that you're at her home
, and Max's cooking is amazing. It is elegant
but also spicy and intense. It. Jakovs mussel
like always ngeauch carrotten puru gearov mushes. To me
, Chef Max is one of a kind. His
dishes are always full of elegance, long lasting flavors
. He loves to add clarified butter in the dishes
, so it's a bit of Frenchy, but with
the lightness of Asian flavors, and he creates dishes
which are so good that you want to lick the
plates afterwards, lick them and lick them until no
drop of sauce or butter is there anymore, and
I adore it. Hm This also can be Berlin
. Normally Berlin is described as very, very rough
, but here at Toulouselorek, Ilona makes it very
special and you don't want to leave here. You
stay even longer than you expect. Yeah, and
now it's time for you to leave because I will
stay here. It is my Berlin, it was
my Berlin and you are really from all the bottom
of my heart, invited to enjoy the four spots
I show you what my culinary Berlin is.