Good things come to those who eat

Good things come to those who eat

Let’s face it folks, the gastronomic delights around the Simon-Dach-Straße and Sonntagstraße are rather scarce – the Schwarze Hahn, good old Schneeweiß and vegan deli Laauma being superb exceptions, of course. But mostly it’s a blur of Berlin „fusion food” along the lines of simple burger and pizza joints and Happy-Hour-Texmex-Thai restaurants with ever changing management. We were in the area the other day – we were starving and made a great discovery. About a year ago, a new restaurant opened right next to the Ostkreuz train station, across from Hähnchen Hütte and the 1stFloor hostel. With its wooden panelling, handwritten menu boards and earthy Scandinavian chic it was nothing like any of the other places close-by. When we entered Milja & Schäfa, we had absolutely no expectations – a perfect start to the culinary surprise of the week. We took our time reading the menu over and over because everything just sounded so delicious and rather special. We went for beetroot, parsnip and sweet potato wedges with a lime-basil-garlic dip, a beetroot Carpaccio with smoked salmon and five different dips with lovely fresh bread – each one better than the next. All dishes were perfectly balanced, boldly flavoured and anything but random. Our current breakfast favourite is the avocado sandwich with tomato, lemon-basil-aioli, pine nuts and a fried egg. Pictured here to your right. There’s no doubt about it: Milja & Schäfa know what they’re doing. A relaxed, down to earth atmosphere and signature food – that’s just how we like it. Oh, and everybody is really nice! We’ll be back again soon.
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Milja & Schäfa, Café und Soul Food Restaurant | Sonntagstr. 1, 10245 Berlin | Facebook

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Kategorien: Places | Autor: | Datum: 22. April 2015 | Tags: , , , , |  Keine Kommentare

Nikias Hofmann

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Nikias Hofmann

The 2 Minute Interview

Nikias Hofmann is a DJ and knows the Munich party scene like no one else. Together with his comrades, he runs the HEART, one of the most dashing spots in the Bavarian capital. As a child he wanted to be a bass player but settled for turntables instead. Thank God – we would be missing out on so much otherwise! Apparently, he has no secrets to keep, so we just asked him everything. He told us about his cure for a killer hangover (coke and chocolate – really?!), his superhero powers and his favourite four-letter words. Conclusion: cool name, cool kid.

 

Name: Nikias Claudio Enrique Hofmann
Age: 37
Location: München
Occupation: Amusement
Shoe size: 43
Favourite Drink: Espressotini
Contact: www.h-e-a-r-t.me

 

Red or blue? Definitly blue! Must be because of my job.

 

Where do you go out clubbing? To our pivate club, the Circle Of Trust.

 

What does Munich have to offer exclusively? Well, the Oktoberfest and the football club FC Bayern are quite dominant, but if you can block that out there is quite a lot: the Eisbach (part of the river Isar) and the Privatklub, for example.

 

You have friends visiting for 24 hours, where do you take them? To places where you really have time for each other – parks, the mountains, lakes. Always enjoying great food and even better drinks. And then we’d go dancing.

 

What did you want to become as a child? I thought bass players were awesome. I wanted to be one, too.

 

What have you been trying to accomplish for a while but just can`t seem to finish? My second mix tape. Since 2004! But it will be out really soon, I keep telling myself everyday. ;-)

 

If you could go back in time to change something, what would it be? I think it’s important to be at peace with one’s own faults and personal failures. Life doesn’t work without the mistakes we make. Therefore, I never regret and try to make every day a little better. So I’d really prefer time to pass more slowly, to get more out of it…

 

What are your three favourite curse words? They’re very ordinary. Shit – fuck – shit etc.

  

How do get over a hangover? You should really get to like it and and as the years go by, it will become like a good friend that simply is a part of you. Coke and chocolate always helps though, too.

 

Another word for synonym? One word? Meaningsibling?

 

Which celebrity would you like to go out for a drink with?
 Oscar Wilde

 

If we came to visit you, what would you cook for us? Tournedos Rossini – great dish, great cook, great person.

 

What are you afraid of? I only worry about my family and friends.

 

Which superpower would you like to have? The power to fly!

 

What would you change, if you had the power to do so? Oh, there is so much to be done. Nowadays, there are far too many rules and regulations for my liking. Our rights of freedom are limited on the pretext of reason. That’s the first thing I would change. But as I said, there is so much to be done…

 

What should no one know about you? I think it’s too late for secrets for me.

 

Which question should we have asked?

 Why everything that causes attention doesn’t nessecesarily have to be respected.

 

Last words: There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in!

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Kategorien: People | Autor: | Datum: 25. März 2015 | Tags: , , , |  Keine Kommentare

The real meal.

The real meal.

What would it be like to open up a restaurant that used only regional, nay, local products? Withdrawing from a world of plenty and returning to the pace of life, where Nuremburg is as far away as Darussalam or Ulan Bator, and the season´s harvest dictates the menu and not the other way around? Sure, there is loads of regional cuisine out there, but what about a restaurant kitchen that strictly processes local produce and avoids using ingredients that have been shipped across the world altogether? No lemons, chocolate, tuna or even pepper – for example. Nobelhart & Schmutzig is the new restaurant where sommelier superstar Billy Wagner and chef Micha Schäfer do just that. Muscovy duck from the Prignitzer Landhof near Perleberg, or wild beet from the Wilde Gärtnerei, an agricultural collective in Rüdnitz – the Nobelhart & Schmutzig uses traditional techniques like fermentation, brining, pickling, acidification, salting and marinating to prepare food made only from seasonal products from around Berlin. Creativity through self-restraint is the recipe for success here. Exactly one menu is served at the rustic oak bar per evening. No à la carte or can-I-have-that-with-different-sides-please-rubbish here. Nope, no can do. The set menu has 10 – yes, TEN – courses, costs 80 Euros and is worth every single penny. Tap water included, too. Finally, someone has read the signs of the times and banished bottled water from the menu. Ever since we’ve had our Leogant system, we know just how good tap water can taste and what good it can do, once it has the same quality as spring water. Apart from that, you can of course indulge yourself in fantastic wines selected by the maestro himself, as well as brandies, local beer, teas or Kreuzberg coffee. Go on, live a little and treat yourself to a culinary self-experience and savour the origin of taste gone rock ’n’ roll. By the way, guess where our next muxmäuschenwild FAMILY STYLE is going to happen…?
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Speiselokal Nobelhart & Schmutzig | Friedrichstraße 218, 10969 Berlin – Kreuzberg | Tue–Sat from 6.30 pm | nobelhartundschmutzig.com | Reservierung | Photo: Caroline Prange

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Family Style

Family Style

More scrumptious news! We’d like to have dinner with you. And not just anything or anywhere. We want to discover the best restaurants, foodie temples and all those culinary gems tucked away in Berlin and find out which ones pass the muxmäuschenwild taste test. Once a month we’ll be heading to an up-and-coming and very yummy restaurant with a group of maximum 12 participants. Moving “Stammtisch” so to say. We will enjoy wonderful food served with a smile, cooked with the best things the kitchen has to offer and a whole lotta love. But there’s always the same problem: Our tummies just aren’t big enough to feast ourselves through the entire menu, right? So there’ll be one big table, 12 people, lots of little portions, good wine and tons of fun – that sounds like an evening meant to last forever. The very first muxmäuschenwild Stammtisch will be held on March 3rd at the wonderful CHAN on Paul-Lincke-Ufer. The first time we stopped by here, it seemed we were in a typical Thai-style eatery, but on second thought we weren’t so sure. Everything fit together so well here, but in a strikingly unobtrusive way. The restaurants interior is just as spot on as is the menu, the service and the dishes, which are all inspired by Thai street vendor and market cuisine – fresh street food made with the very best ingredients and naturally without monosodium glutamate or any other flavour enhancers. Along with great wines and drinks, this tastes a lot more like Brooklyn rather than “just around the corner from Kotti”. Be at CHAN’s at 19.30 and enjoy dinner and drinks for 29€. To reserve your seat, be quick and email to familystyle@muxmaeuschenwild.de. See you there!

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muxmäuschenwild FAMILY STYLE | monthly in changing restaurants | 1st edition: Tue 03.03.2015, 19.30h | Chan, Paul-Lincke-Ufer 42, 10969 Berlin | reservations: familystyle@muxmaeuschenwild.de

 

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Kategorien: Own Stuff | Autor: | Datum: 25. Februar 2015 | Tags: , , , , , |  Keine Kommentare