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Review: White Trash Fast Food 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. It was through the recommendation of local blogger Jacinta Lodge that I ended up at WhiteTrashFastFood in Berlin.

White Trash Fast Food in berlin
White Trash Fast Food in Berlin

On our trip to Berlin,  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 emails and arranged to meet for a drink at our hotel one evening. ‘I’ll be the one with the fuchsia and lime green glasses’ she told me in her e-mail and ‘I’ll be the tall blond twenty something’ I quipped back, thinking she was joking.

I was hoping that Jacinta would 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 twenty something.

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.

Heather with Jacinta Lodge
Heather with Jacinta Lodge

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 9 pm but we didn’t stay for it all once we’d finished with our homemade 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 buried 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!

White Trash Fast Food
Schönhauser Allee 6-7
10119 Berlin

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Saturday 19th of February 2011

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Liliya Goranova

Tuesday 21st of December 2010

Hi! I found your blog while I was looking for some info on hotels in Berlin ! I am really impressed, very interesting, stylish, useful! Compliments!

INGAAS

Wednesday 1st of December 2010

of course when you dont have time to cook, fastfoods would always be the best option ;'.

Edmund

Monday 12th of July 2010

Wow, I went all over Berlin and never found a place quite as unique as "WhiteTrashFastFood." The American in me is immediately intrigued.

Even if you're not in the mood for burgers, though, I find that Berlin has a great fast food scene. I'd just pick up a currywurst at the local street stand and be good for another couple hours. And almost all the taverns and pubs have cheap local eats.

Now that I know that there are some great burger bars, though, I'll deifnitely be on the lookout.

Mark H

Wednesday 7th of April 2010

Aaahhh, great looking cocktails at such a fantastically named hotel.