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So… I started a new company with my friend Ruth Bartlett - we’re making puzzles! Puzzles!??!! Yes, beautifully bold jigsaw puzzles. You can now get our first one, called Floreality.
Let's get back on Insta Live! I have some stuff I wanna talk about... So I invited three of the people I love to discuss things with to join me in a three day series.
Here's a list of local places looking for donations. Some of them will distribute them for free to people in need, while others will sell them in their shops for a little money, which they use to keep up their charity work.
Here's a list of what local restaurants and food businesses are doing during these trying times.
While supporting small local businesses is important, we need to keep an eye out for those, who are even more affected by the current pandemic and are too often ignored in the urge to help.
Hope you’re all holding up okay. This is a really, really hard time, and there are so many questions around. Here are my four encouragements specifically for gastronomy owners…
Sponsored in parts by Strandhotel Ahlbeck Spending time by a big body of water is the ideal restoration for me – a lake is fine, but the sea is even better – where only a sidewalk and the dune is separating you from the breaking waves.
Verzeihung, das hier ist kein Rant. Denn natürlich gibt es jede Menge gutes Essen in Berlin. Aber…
You donated double the amount from last year so we collected over 780 pieces of clothing as well as 113 pairs of shoes!
If you came here expecting a rant, I must disappoint you. I very much believe that there is a ton of great food in Berlin. But…
Is this a travel-in-Brandenburg blog now? Will we ever receive new tips for brunch? And the answer to all of these is Jein.
To be perfectly blunt, I did not expect a whole lot from going to South Sweden. … Oh my, was I wrong.
After breakfast in the lovely Forsthaus Strelitz, I continued my late-summer road trip north heading towards Rügen, the giant island with the stunning cliffs…
I love me an Ausflug. Especially to this exquisite destination: a family-run restaurant and farm business in Mecklenburg, close to Neustrelitz.
This post contains advertising I personally don't like to make a fuss about the act of photographing when I'm actually out eating, but I appreciate food presented in fine imagery, so I need to find a balance between these two poles.
Years ago, I entertained myself with the idea of opening my own bistro where everything would be served in bowls…
Ooooh, Paris! I have not spent enough time in Paris, a day here, a day there, mostly just as a stop-over when going some other place, really. This time, we were staying for almost 4 days, we were going to eat all the things!
When Breakfast in Grunewald feels like you went on a weekend trip (with the M29 bus), and dining in Charlottenburg feels like dining in another city.
Lucky me, I was invited to join the annual Terroir Symposium in Toronto, Canada! In my free time, I ate.
It was my very first time in Shanghai, China and it couldn't have been better: we did a ton of walks through the districts, marvelled at the many pink and white magnolia flowers that had just bloomed, and planned our days around where we would eat for lunch and dinner. We ate so much and we ate so well! Mostly at places serving various Chinese cuisines, so we could enjoy the many very seasonal vegetables and dishes only available in the weeks of early spring. We've also visited the Jing'An temple, the Yayoi Kusama exhibition, the Arts & Crafts museum (where I should've bought that glass statuette of my Chinese zodiac sign), wandered through gardens and roamed many, many, many malls. Mainly to walk off the last meal and create space for the next…
Are you frolicking in the sun while reading this? Reveling in the great expectation that is a long, free weekend with tons of sunshine and warm weather? Ohh, me too! Nothing quite like Berlin awakening from six months of depressing grey and remodeling itself into the green oasis we all love and need. After ten days in Shanghai, where I ate excellent food from morning till night (guide still to come), I'm readjusting to the local circumstances by being extra careful where to exchange money for food. So this one's mostly old faves (plus a new highlight all the way at the end of the post). Starting today, I'll be on the lookout for new food spots, and will let you know about the success of my discoveries asap, hopefully. Until then, enjoy the weekend!
Here's to spring! All the petals and blossoms really pitched the mood in the city, everybody is slowly getting rid of winter feels and into their sunny madness. What could be a better time to look at the renewal happening in the foodie scene? Admittedly, my willingness to keep up with the speed of current openings (and closings, for that matter) is very, very limited. So many people are opening so many restaurants right now – I'm often just overwhelmed by the sheer number of places calling for attention. Fret not, I invested the time to wade through the streams of opening announcements and filtered out the ones I deem most interesting, just by affiliation, description and / or plain, old foodie gossip. Let's see which ones will make it onto our regular radar, shall we?
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At its inception at the beginning of 2006, Stil in Berlin dealt with street style, a city finding its feet, fashionwise, but over the past few years, its scope has expanded, covering everything from food, style, art, and life in ever-changing Berlin. It’s a way to share favorites, to hopefully reflect a little of what life here is and looks like.
Stil in Berlin is run by its founder Mary Scherpe.
She co-founded Stil in Berlin with Benjamin Richter back in March 2006. From January 2009 till July 2012 Stil in Berlin benefited immensely from the contributions of Darryl Natale.
Unveiling The Berlin Puzzle: Piecing Together the Heart of the City, One Quirky Detail at a Time