brgr

A few weeks ago, I had checked into Pita Grill on Foursquare, which was where I was grabbing dinner before class ($3 for a falafel pita sandwich? Can't really beat it when you're in the mood for something quick and cheap - not to mention pretty healthy too). While searching for the location, I saw that the nearby burger place, brgr  had a special for checking in. I have often passed it and wondered what the food was like. The special was that you can get a seasonal, off-the-menu, white truffle burger if you showed that you had checked in. Um, first of all, as per my last post, I love anything truffle (as in the mushroom, I am not as obsessed about chocolate truffles), and the chance to feel uber cool and exclusive? I've been craving it ever since - even though I've never even stepped foot in brgr before.

I mentioned it to my manager, and she promised to take me there and indulge my food cravings - she calls me a big baby because of all the foods I eat and want to eat. And I'm totally ok with that...especially when it gets me delicious foods :-)

So last Thursday after work, and before my class, she indulged my baby needs, and we went with a few other coworkers for a quick dinner. All I have to say is - SO WORTH IT!!! We also got 2 sides of trio fries to share - fried onions, sweet potato fries and regular fries. And since everything tastes better with hot sauce, I also finished (in my defense, there wasn't much left), their bottle of Chipotle flavored Tabasco sauce. However, I only added the hot sauce after having tasted it in its original form first. If you're into milkshakes (I personally am not really), apparently theirs are pretty good too.

Best part of it all - they deliver! And my workplace falls within their range of delivery too :-D

Next burger I want to try is their morning burger with the fried egg!

White Truffle Burger!!!!!

Trio Fries

Half Eaten burger w/ Chipotle Tabasco

Doner in Berlin

The morning of my first full day in Berlin, my cousin asks me if I like Doner Kebabs and if I even knew what that was. I mean, who did he think he was talking to?! Of course I did! First of all, they're all over NYC, and second of all, there was a place right across the street from where I lived in Firenze - unfortunately, I did not take advantage of it as much as I should/could have (shoulda woulda coulda!). But for some reason, there are Doner places everywhere in Europe? Can someone please explain that one to me?

Moving on. 

So he takes us to what he has deemed the best Doner stand around Berlin, which was a tad bit out of the way from where we were going to join the Starbucks tour - I forget what the actual tour was called, but it started at Starbucks and must have been sponsored by them because their maps had all Starbucks locations - best part was, the tour was free! But again, I'm getting sidetracked (story of my life). 

Focus! Doner stand. So we get there, and there is a rather long line, as all good things tend to have, but luckily, my cousin has a plan. He tells us to wait in line, and runs off to pick up some sausage and fries. What he comes back with, is some sausage and fries drowned in ketchup with a generous dollop of mayonnaise. One might be concerned that this excess of condiments might cause the fries to be soggy, but we ate them so quickly, this was not a problem at all. 

It is finally our turn to order. And by our turn, I mean, my cousin ordered for us in German. For all I know, he ordered us cow gut or something. What I do know, is that it was delicious, and super filling. I couldn't even finish my entire sandwich! The leftovers did come in handy later though after the exhausting 4 hour tour.

Doner Stand

The sandwich

Munching on the sidewalk like hobos

Pwnd by the sandwich -
came in handy later when I was hungry again

Man in overalls passing by
I was amused.

And now just because, below are some of the pictures from the actual tour that was fueled by my doner sandwich above. And at the end of the day, after the tour, and after some rock climbing (a most interesting experience as I have a slight fear of heights and am not very flexible at all), we ended our evening with some more fries and burgers! All in all, a super long, but pretty awesome day.

**For all groups of 2-3 photos, the captions after each group follow the pictures in clockwise order

                        Traffic Light from the War                              Inside of a bank?!?!                   Infamous hotel where MJ dangled his baby

                             Sunlight                                   Brandenburg Gate (to all my music nerds - Bach?)       Segway tour?!?! Willing to bet they're American...

Holocaust Memorial

 
                     This poster amused me...                                             Berlin Bear!                                              PF commercial anyone?

View of part of the Berlin Wall

 

Checkpoint Charlie 

Found a heart! (I think) So I hugged it...though I really would have liked to hug the overalls man...or maybe the giant chocolate bear in the window...

  Most lame beer bike ever (we made more noise than them)                   Humboldt University Gate                                  Found on the bridge below

                                                        Outside of the rock climbing place                       Inside...this took A LOT of effort

Acorn beer? And German soda (pop?)

Mmmmm, burgerrrrr

Love love love fries!