Lost in Intermezzo

honestly i think you just caught them on a bad night, this place can be hit or miss with the vibe depending on the shift. the lunch crowd is way more chill if you go around 2pm, way less frantic and the staff actually have time to chat about the wine list. also fyi the cacio e pepe is great but try the gnocchi next time, it's a sleeper hit and they make it fresh daily.

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huh that's interesting, i've been a regular there for like two years and never really noticed the staff being that stressed. maybe it's a timing thing? i always go for the late seating around 8:30 on weekdays and they're super chill, even joking around with each other. the head chef is a real character, you can sometimes hear him cracking jokes from the kitchen. also the amatriciana is criminally underrated, way better than the cacio e pepe imo, and the panna cotta is legit the best in the city

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fwiw i think it's a known thing in the neighborhood, the place has been running on a skeleton crew since last summer when their sous chef left for that new spot on auguststraße. the food is still top tier but you can feel the tension in the air, especially near the open kitchen. if you want the same quality without the stress, try roma e roma on oberbaumstraße, it's family run and the staff actually seem happy to be there. their cacio e pepe is just as good and the owner will prob pour you a free limoncello

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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.

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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the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated.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

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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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