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Cookies Cream

June 13, 2012

When I started doing my eating theater planning for Berlin, I got pretty excited yesteryear the thought of Cookies Cream - a slightly fancy vegetarian house tucked downwardly a Berlin alleyway amongst lots of positive reviews. It went instantly to the move yesteryear of the list. And in addition to thus it was that on our 3rd nighttime inward Berlin nosotros were picking our means through a deserted-looking hotel carpark in addition to trying to uncovering our means inward - it's non quite every bit difficult every bit nosotros feared (the giant chandeliers sort of give the game away), but it nevertheless adds a chip of mystique to the whole occasion. H5N1 fossil oil pictorial map of our trip in:





The eating theater entryway is upward those stairs inward the final photo, although yous nevertheless accept to figure out where to become ane time you're inward - the eating theater is at the move yesteryear of the stairs, inward a higher house a bar (that looks lovely but was empty when nosotros wandered yesteryear at 7:30pm).

Anyway, nosotros made it inward in addition to were ane of the root tables seated (dinner, similar all things inward Berlin, starts pretty late). The fit-out is lean - exposed concrete ceilings in addition to floors, express decoration, in addition to the major decorative slice is a slightly rude moving painting including an American Express logo that we're told is non to last photographed due to previous legal threats. Service is efficient but slightly cool - I larn the feeling that the peeps at Cookies Cream sort of immature lady the days when they actually were a secretive eating theater for insiders alone rather than somewhere that turns upward inward direct books in addition to on spider web resources similar Happy Cow (which was, every bit ever, invaluable inward planning this trip!).

Onto the food! The card has 3 courses, amongst v options each for starter in addition to primary in addition to 3 for dessert. You're encouraged to pick ane of each (36€ AU$45), although yous tin social club them ane at a fourth dimension (starters in addition to desserts 10€, mains 20€). We ponder our options over but about drinks - a garden tonic for me (gin, elderflower liqueur, lavander in addition to elderberry bloom tonic, 8€ AU$10) in addition to an apple tree sour for Cindy (cucumber, lemon, saccharide in addition to apple tree juice, 5.5€ AU$7).


We ane time again decided that we'd but carve upward everything nosotros ordered, in addition to negotiated 2 items from each card department that nosotros were keen on. To start, the poached organic egg amongst hop in addition to malt, puff pastry in addition to tabular array salt flakes along amongst the endive salad amongst apple tree vinaigrette, chicory rolls stuffed amongst celery in addition to apples in addition to a baked hazelnut stick.

The poached egg was soft in addition to runny, but similar they're supposed to be, in addition to the hollandaisey sauce had an interesting flavour - mayhap the hops in addition to malt at work. The greens were coarse in addition to quite chewy, but had a slightly bitter flavour that worked nicely against all the creaminess on the plate.

The instant appetiser was piled high amongst greens, which were nicely dressed inward a sweetish vinaigrette. They sat upon but about a couplet of fatty rolls made of chicory leaves, which had a cooked downwardly mix of apple tree in addition to celery inside. The hazelnut cigar provided a chip of savoury crunchiness to compliment the rest. This didn't function quite also every bit the egg for me - it was really heavy on the greens in addition to the chicory rolls themselves weren't that exciting.

Before our mains came out, the waitstaff snuck out but about breadstuff for us - I'd noticed it going to other tables in addition to requested a serve for us, if alone to sample the herby spread that came amongst it. Completely unnecessary, but completely delicious.

Onto the mains. First up, this peal barley strudel amongst chanterelle, parsley root, wild herbs in addition to jus.

The strudel was a pleasant plenty mix of crispy pastry in addition to lightly seasoned pearl barley filling, but the stars of this dish were the glorious picayune mushrooms dotted all over the plate - I could accept eaten them on their own.

Our other primary was a serve of parmesan dumplings, amongst artichokes, bbq tomato plant in addition to 'alloyed' sauce.


The dumplings weren't the won-ton manner parcels I was expecting, instead they were big floury globs of richness amongst a wonderful parmesan essence embedded inward them. The bbq tomato plant had a slightly smoky sense of savor on move yesteryear of its tomato-y sweetness, in addition to the artichokes were tender. I'm non certain what the 'alloyed' sauce was, but it was rich in addition to creamy in addition to soaked into the dumplings pretty damn well.

Our root dessert was a chocolate fondant amongst huckleberry sorbet, nougat sauce, bilberries in addition to a saccharide chip.


The fondant had an oozing chocolate middle that was super rich, in addition to really challenging to carve upward inward half. On its ain it was mayhap a chip much, but the huckleberry sorbet had but the correct score of acidity to cutting through it. Pretty great.

Last of all was a crunchy rhubarb tartlet amongst pistachio H2O ice cream, yoghurt H2O ice cream in addition to sorrel.

The sorrel added a slightly confusing flavour to this dessert, but I actually enjoyed the tart fresh rhubarb inward the pastry in addition to wafer sandwich in addition to the creamy yoghurt H2O ice cream. This was a prissy fresh counterpart to the heavy chocolate dessert, in addition to left us feeling pretty happy amongst our repast at Cookies Cream.

I'd definitely recommend checking out this house if you're a vegetarian inward Berlin amongst a chip of spare coin to dismiss - it's scandalously expensive yesteryear Berlin standards but actually pretty reasonable if yous mean value nearly eating at similarly flash places inward Melbourne. The card isn't loaded upward amongst vegan options but it seems that they offering at to the lowest degree ane appetiser, primary in addition to dessert each night, although I don't mean value they quite scale the same heights every bit the veg food. It's a fun house to eat, at to the lowest degree inward business office because of the endeavour they're going to to become far a chip hip. You'll definitely uncovering meliorate value veg nutrient inward Berlin, but you'll last difficult pressed to uncovering somewhere else that makes dinner seem every bit much of an occasion.
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Cookies Cream is a pretty mutual halt off for nutrient bloggers visiting Berlin. I Can Has Cook?, A Typique Gourmand (French), The Young Foodie, The Carnivorous Vegan, I Can Has Cook?, A Typique Gourmand (French), The Young Foodie, SMASH AND SNIFF, I Can Has Cook?, A Typique Gourmand (French), The Young Foodie, Nimmersatt inward Berlin (German), I Can Has Cook?, A Typique Gourmand (French), The Young Foodie, DUA (Swedish) in addition to I Can Has Cook?, A Typique Gourmand (French), The Young Foodie, What Do I Know didn't mean value it quite lived upward to the hype.
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Cookies Cream
Behrenstrasse 55, Berlin
030 27492940
3 course of didactics meal, 36€ AU$45
http://www.cookiescream.com (beware the ho-hum intro)

Accessibility: We had to trudge upward multiple flights of stairs to larn into the eating theater - I'm non certain if there's but about other means in, definitely telephone telephone ahead if stairs are an issue. Once you're within it's pretty spacious in addition to good lit, in addition to there's comprehensive tabular array service. We didn't see the bathrooms.

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