Lars eats, cooks, and travels

And again, the star-of-the-week quest continued in week twenty-seven! This time at the reinstoff (Schlegelstraße 26, 10115 Berlin): I would dare say it belongs to the same extended family as many of the restaurants I have visited before - einsunternull , Rutz , Horváth, Nobelhart & Schmutzig , which seem to be all on superb speaking terms, if not linked through staff and talent migrating from one to the other and spawning the next one. Berlin is a lucky place to have them all! (Especially so conveniently close to each other.) And, since I have loved all the others, I absolutely needed to complete the club to experience Chef Daniel Achilles and his team myself. Arrival Arriving on this Thursday evening, we first took a seat on the outdoor patio and enjoyed an aperitif while presented with the menu. We took our amuse bouches outside, before heading inside. It was not a crowded evening during the week and in early summer - so again, I was lucky to get one of my favorites: a corn...

For my last dinner in my star of the week quest in June, I selected the Cinco by Paco Pérez in Drakestraße 1, Berlin-Tiergarten. With Apulia still on my mind, I was looking for a more southern european-influenced cuisine. Also, continuing my theme from the previous week (where I explored the einsunternull ), I was curious about a restaurant that achieves both high ratings and a Michelin star, but a pretty low rating by the actual guests (3.8 on Google, admittedly based on few ratings; and amusingly, #666 out of 6952 on TripAdvisor right now). How did my experience go? Well, this report will be a bit different from those I posted before. Arrival The arrival on this Thursday was quite an adventure. I am not usually late, and normally prefer to walk both directions, but in the Berlin monsoon, my gondola taxi drove me past flooded intersections where one particularly unhappy looking driver had water reaching the middle of his Porsche's door. I made it twenty-five minutes aft...