It’s Sunday morning, we have spent three days (and, more importantly, three nights) laughing, chatting, dancing, drinking, we are all very, very tired… 

There is only one thing for it, Frühstück and lots of it. The Germans may have seriously solid food of their own - and the fried salad I was served on my first day (to accompany potato pancakes and thick slabs of smoked salmon) will stand as witness to this fact - but no one does hangover food quite like the Russians. So it is East to Gorki Park that we head, the Russian cafe you understand, not the motherland.

Now, I have mentioned my slavophilia before so it will come as no surprise that I was in heaven from the moment I picked up the menu in this utterly charming cafe. The place is stylishly decorated with vintage modernist wallpaper and furniture and cool as it is, feels warm and welcoming, like so much of Berlin. In fact having to narrow my selection down to what I could actually manage to eat was the only painful moment, I wanted it all.

In the end I plumped for a small borsch followed by a mixed platter of baked cheese blinis, eggs, pancakes with soured cream, aubergine in tomatoes, various fruits, more soured cream and some jam with a glass of black tea on the side - I told you I was hungry.

Really I should have had a little glass of vodka for pudding but I couldn’t quite face it after all that. So, fat and happy we waddled out into the cold Sunday afternoon in search of some art to further inspire our souls.

6/5

Gorki Park
25 Weinbergsweg
10119 Berlin
Tel  +49 30 448 72 86

www.gorki-park.de

Tags: Berlin cafe, blinis, russian cafe

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