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How to find places that sell freshly made falafel?
Yesterday I stumbled upon a rather non descript shop near Schlesi where they guy made the falafel fresh in front of me and a… Usually you get frozen falafel deep fried again in the normal Döner shops.
Yesterday I stumbled upon a rather non descript shop near Schlesi where they guy made the falafel fresh in front of me and also warmed up the durum bread.
The difference in taste was very noticeable.
Are there any other such places you would recommend? I know there's Dada falafel but I'm not really a fan of that one.
honestly the one at Alibaba in Neukölln on Pannierstraße is solid, they roll the falafel dough right in front of you and fry it to order. it's a tiny shop, easy to walk past, but the owner's been doing it for years and you can taste it.
also check out Azzam in Kreuzberg if you haven't, they do a proper fresh batch too but it's more like a sit-down spot. their hummus is worth getting on the side.
i know exactly what you mean, once you have it fresh it's hard to go back. try the falafel at Al Waha in Moabit near the U-Bahn, it's a small bakery and they make the paste themselves every morning, not just for falafel but for their pastries too. their bread is baked in house so the whole sandwich is next level, plus it's way cheaper than the tourist spots.
The one at Alaturka on Urbanstrasse near Hermannplatz does theirs fresh, they press the chickpea mix and fry it while you wait. It's a small grocery with a counter in the back, easy to miss. Their bread is good too, they warm it on the dome grill right there.
What is the correct spelling for a street name that appears differently on multiple signs in Charlottenburg?
Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.
if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point
honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.
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