places worth eating @ Berlin

Restaurant Sarah Wiener
Invalidenstraße 50-51
10557 Berlin
Fon: (030) 70 71 36 50

Restaurant in the building of the also great-to-visit modern art museum "Hamburger Bahnhof"
good food by one of Germany's well known chefs, a bit pricy but worth the treat. 
when it is warm outside you can sit alongside the river Spree and watch the tourist boats go by while the sparrows steal some breadcrumbs from your table.
Have to have: Warm Apple Strudel with vanilla sauce and some home made ice cream 

european earth worms invade america

Did you know that the famous and loved earth worms of Europe were not present in north-east America before they were recently introduced as fishing baits?
There were earth worms in America quite some time ago, before the ice age came and killed them all. Now, the introduced earth worms disrupt some ecosystem relationships altering the species composition.
Read more about this here.

places worth eating @ Berlin

Latino
Uhlandstraße 4
10623 Berlin

030 3124046

Mo - Fr 11.00 - 01.00 Uhr

Sa und So 15.30 - 01.00 Uhr

italien restaurant

fresh fish can be ordered off the menu when available

friendly service, decent table wine

I had the double sauced gnocci and the veal liver. both very good. the starters are also a treat. 
don't miss to have a piece of tiramisu for dessert! (can be shared though as it is quite big and very rich)

places worth eating @ Berlin

Confiserie Dubenkropp
German Chocolate Master
Paradies Nebenstelle

Mo-Fr 10-19, Sa 10-16
Grolmannstr. 20
030/3138330
10623 Berlin-Charlottenburg
use the metropolitan station "Savignyplatz"

fine hand-made chocolates
i had a hot chocolate and you get two cookies with it (also with coffee). choose: "florentiner" and "dutchess". they also have rich looking cakes.
homemade chocolates: macha, crème brulée, blueberry, eggnog...
a good present to bring for a whisky lover: the hand-made laphroig pralines
also a good treat: chocolate coated coffee beans

places worth eating @ Münster, Germany

Art e Bio
Gelateria Biologica
Hörsterstr. 38
48143 Münster
lovely, home made organic icecream. the owner is sicilian and very nice. sit in a homy cute interiour and enjoy fair trade coffee and great icecream. a place for a dreamy afternoon.

nice coffee places @ berlin

Barini
address: Böhmischer Platz 46
12055 Berlin
030.25059718
what: a cool place to have self-made lemonade and an outstandingly good carrot cake.
sit ouside and watch normal berlin street life happening around you. relaxing atmosphere, nice people.

favourite coffee place @ berlin

Blumencafe
address: Schoenhauser Allee 127a
10437 Berlin
030.447 34 226. mo-so 10:00-18:00
what is it? a lovely old school coffee place combined with a flower shop. two parrots are living there too giving the place a true jungle feeling. try the chocolate tart.and the old cat is very very cute. old mirrors and interior make you feel like in another century. brilliant place for a relaxed stop over or long talks with a good friend.

places to eat @ Leipzig, Germany

Café Cantona
Windmühlenstraße 29, 04107 Leipzig
0341 2254302
unusual menu, freshly made food
easy going atmosphere
the nice crew serves meaty and a few vegetarian dishes with an international touch.
you can also sit outside in the summer and the decoration is hip but not intimidating. I shared two dishes with my friend, the kimchi omlette burger ("egg foo young burger" really good) and the wok tofu (also good but I liked the other one better). we also had kimchi and hommos for starters. Strawberry juice spritzer and ginger ale for drinks. another friend had the malfatti and they smelled and looked nice too. you can check out their menu online, it is on their website. the yellow button.. but only in german..
its a place for a first date, meeting some friends or just hanging out on your own after a stressy work day.

Make Everything OK

The magic button — Make Everything OK

places worth eating @ Cologne, Germany

"Bali"
Brüsseler Platz 2, 50672 Köln

Phone:0221 522914

really nice fine, delicious food

OMG

a restaurant for every day. little decoration, dimmed lights, simple chairs and tables, superb food. full house but still good atmosphere (reserve if you can) and then the food. oh my. I want to go there again. try the dish house style with the cooking banana (can't remeber the name). 

i had: pot of tea, chef's special dish with cooking banana (you will find it in about the centre of the menu page) and one other dish (my friend and I ordered two and shared). it was both very nice.

great music video worth watching

die goldenen zitronen - der investor

places worth eating @ Paris, France

"Chez Hanna"

54 rue des Rosiers, 75004 Paris
Israeli restaurant 
original, simple food 
both healthy and tasty and a perfect light city food (also offers take away)
i had: the "le fallafel spécial" and the"Assiette dégustation", a mixed platter.
recommended for: an affordable lunchtime that does not make you sleepy as a break from walking around in this beautiful city

places worth eating @ Madrid, Spain

"Korea Restaurant"

Calle de Cristóbal Bordiú, 59, 28003, Spain ‎ +34 915 54 20 34
korean restaurant 
wow. just wow. 
delicious food, real korean style. perfect.
i had: algea salad with tofu, dried algea, fermented cabbage, sushi, 
diverse noodle and rice dishes with seafood, beef, veggies
recommended for: anytime really

places worth eating @ Madrid, Spain

"Bichobola"
small innovative restaurant
offers lunch specials
mix of traditional spanish and extraordinarily combined food of other cultures
i had: forgot the name but it was raw fish with lime juice, onion and avocado, a traditional dish interpreted in a mexican way (avocado). it was delicate. 
recommended for: lunch or evening food after running around in the city and needing a rest

places worth eating @ Berlin, Germany

"Baba Angora"
nice turkish resaurant
family business, the name of the owner is Angora
real turkish food and polite and good service
i had: shared the vegetarian and non-vegetarian cold and warm starters plate with two friends. ordered some extra bread which is freshly baked in the oven. wow. sooooo nice. drank the house-red wine.
recommended for: going to a turkish restaurant instead of an imbiss. having a nice evening out with friends. taking business partners.

places worth eating @ Leipzig, Germany

"Zest"
small vegan restaurant
spartan furniture
extraordinary menu which changes often
i had: hot apple juice with apple liquor (twice!)
recommended for: having your parents visit and want to take them somewhere special which is also a bit pricy and you do not normally treat yourself to it. 

Art is art is not necessarily appreciated

Article about people not paying attention to what they might consider amazing when in another surrounding..
Music! (The kids knew though!)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html

time to spare

yes yes and yes. my saying for a long time.. many people are working too much and this has serious consequences. well, someone did put this into a nice article.
but read yourself

asterisms (or how human stuff clutters a whales' graveyeard)

wow. saw this exhibition. it is great. if you have the chance to see it, go see it.

Gabriel Orozco: Asterisms

music for the soul 3

i know, i know, it is stuff from the charts.. but beautiful stuff!
dido - life for rent
arcade fire - sprawl II
travis - side
pixies - where is my mind
pixies - hey
owl city - ten thousand fireflies (the text is so sweet! would not trap any in a jar myself though)
aha - foot of the mountain
travis - flowers in the window
schnulzi: muse - can't take my eyes of you..
cool video too violent femmes - gone daddy gone
violent femmes - kiss off