White Trash Fast Food and meeting the Bloggers in Berlin

If I’m in a new city I always like to seek out fun and authentic neighbourhood places to eat. Guidebooks have their place but there may just be too many recommendations, or they’re on the other side of town, or they just don’t match your mood or the time of day. So my answer is always – ask a local. This might mean the person at the desk of your hotel, but better still ask a resident who shares your interests, and especially one that enjoys eating out.

Heather with Jacinta Lodge

That’s one reason on our trip to Berlin last spring, that I took the opportunity to meet up with Jacinta Lodge, an Aussie, travel blogger, embroiderer and writer who’s settled in Berlin. Before we arrived we exchanged a few e-mails and arranged to meet for a drink at our hotel one evening. ‘I’ll be the one with the fuschia and lime green glasses’ she told me in her e-mail and ‘I’ll be the tall blond twentysomething’ I quipped back, thinking she was joking.

I’d seen that Jacinta had been a fellow blogger at Europe a la Carte and that she was also one of the Berlin experts writing on Planet Eye, so I thought she’d be good for a tip or two on Berlin. We nearly missed each other, as she was waiting for us in the bar of Circus Hostel across the road from the sister Circus Hotel where we were staying. Luckily she realised the mistake and rushed in to the hotel just as I was off to find the mobile number and call her. She was indeed the girl with the lime green and pink specs, but sadly I wasn’t the tall blonde twentysomething.

We chatted for an hour or two over those delicious cocktails that they do so well at Circus Hotel - mine was a Mojito, Jacinta’s a Caipirinha and they were slipping down very nicely. But we moved on to the local recommendations and this was my brief to Jacinta. We wanted somewhere that we could take our gaggle of gorgeous 14 year old girls to give them a taste of the famous Berlin nightlife and music scene, but which wouldn’t subject them to over-18 pick up lines and would be relaxed and teenage friendly. WhiteTrashFastFood was Jacinta’s recommendation and it proved to be a great choice.

White Trash Fast Food in Berlin

It’s a burger bar with live music every night, housed in an old bank with an atmosphere of pub meets Chinese brothel. There’s a tattoo parlour downstairs, where most of the waiting staff looked as if they had been spending their tips and a congenial atmosphere with groups of 20-somethings enjoying their beer, burger and fries. Think Hard Rock cafe with a bit more quirky Berlin originality. It was absolutely packed and we were relegated to a booth towards the back, but luckily we had a word with our nice English waiter from Essex and bagged a table much nearer the front and the music as soon as it became available. The music started at around 9pm but we didn’t stay for it all once we’d finished with our home-made apple pie and ice cream. Street cred all round I’d say – but not the place for your tiddlers who’ll want to pay a visit to the tattoo parlour or ask you to explain some of the ‘Ooh shocking!’ names on the menu.

Along the same lines was the second recommendation for teenagers of Kunsthaus Tacheles that Jacinta thought we’d enjoy for that authentic, grungy Berlin experience, what with the graffiti murals, and the half burried plane in the waste-ground sculpture park at the back. Take a look at my article on Kunsthaus Tacheles here.

Perfect recommendations for teenagers I’d say – if in doubt ask a local!

This article is posted as part of Wanderfood Wednesday, posted at Wanderlust and Lipstick – head over for some comfort Nachos and other foodie delights

White Trash Fast Food
Schönhauser Allee 6-7
10119 Berlin
Telefon:               (030) 5034 8668         (030) 5034 8668
Telefax: (030) 5034 8669

Email: info [at] whitetrashfastfood [dot] com

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