Thursday 5 November 2009

Free dinner

I don't know about free lunches, but in Berlin there IS such a thing as free dinners! Our friend, who lives in Neukölln, invited us to her local for free food yesterday. B-Lage serves one meal a week for a mere "spende", aka donation, to it's customers every Wednesday. We were a little suspicious, us being vegetarians and also not knowing many nice places in Neukölln. This bar certainly is as cosy and hip as any place in Prenzlauer Berg. DJ's play electronic music, the walls have cute spray-art and it has that cool run-down look. We arrived something to eight and after that the place started to slowly get crowded. Food was served around 8.30pm, and by then the bar was full and the queue for food circled room. The dish of the day was "curryous"; mash with a grain in it, maybe rice, accompanied by a delicious Indian-style spicy spinach sauce with pineapple. The food is always vegetarian, and this week vegan as well. Still, maybe the best part of the night was that all of us who gathered are learning German, and so we spoke German the whole night!




4 comments:

  1. hey girl. sorry about the bunshop confusion. :) last sunday we went there quite late, so it got dark soon and the karaoke ended... yesterday i was just coming back from finland, so i had no time to go. next week if you would like to come, lemme kno by email, and i'll fill you in on the time. most likely around 12, cos it gets dark so fast...

    so how the F is it possible, that the dinner was free and good? were the drinks super douper expensive or something?

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  2. The drinks were a totally normal price. I think it's just a really good way of getting people to come early on a Wednesday, stay long and drink more :)

    Heh, I will never get my Finnish pulla, because next weekend we are in Warsaw... :P Impossible!

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  3. ... and by the way: the food is on a donation! not for free ... !!! but some people will never understand as long they are not forced to pay :-(
    best,
    b-lage

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  4. Good comment. I think it was introduced to me as "free food" - but we did pop some euros into the spende-jar!

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