Between the jetlag and the late night, we allowed ourselves to sleep in a bit on Friday morning. By the time we rolled out of the hotel it was already 1230. We wanted to check out a German restaurant and grab some food, so we asked our hotel clerk for a recommendation in the area and she pointed us in the right direction.
The restaurant itself was basically just a tavern and most of the lunch crowd appeared to just be locals who worked in the neighborhood. There was one guy at another table who was eating alone, and was also from New York...but we weren't particularly interested in talking to him and he got the point. The serving wenches were uniformly lovely and took great amusement at our mangled attempts to pronounce the names of their beers.
I had a very fine schnitzel with a side of fried potatoes and something they call bacon beans. Bacon beans are green beans cut into 1/2 inch long chunks and then cooked with an almost equal amount of bits of bacon. So essentially you are eating bacon with some green beans in it. It was damn fine, but considering I still had the UK in front of me, I could tell that I was going to start craving fresh green veggies at some point.
We also had two large steins of beer with our lunch, including Kostritzer Schwarzbier which is a black lager. It looks like a stout, but in flavor it is much lighter than you'd expect. I'd had it here a couple times in the states and it was really no different in Berlin, but it's still a damn fine drink.
After that we were ready to start our museum hop...
This is actually my friend Rance (who actually met us for the UK portion of this trip) and his musical side project. Rance is quite handy with incorporating laptop soundscapes and rhythms into his dreamy guitar pop and this instrumental is a good example of that.
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