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In the midst of the pandemic, Stilian Laufer, who among other things runs the Lützow Bar, has quietly opened the MQ restaurant on Kurfürstendamm. The restaurant with young Californian cuisine is doing well, which is not least due to the good network of the owner Laufer. The restaurant offers 80 seats in the hotel Louisa’s Place and the chef is also no stranger.
The Kudamm seems to be a difficult place. The excellent Savu never caught on and closed for good in the pandemic. Alas. Except for the pizza at Francucci’s, there was no remarkable food left on Ku’damm. You can get that in the side streets, like Brikz.
Berlin Dalí Museum says “Tschüss” and thanks its fans
Almost 500 fans of Salvador Dalí’s art visited the museum “Dalí – The Exhibition at Potsdamer Platz” last weekend, despite the special times imposed by Corona. Since the evening of the 4th Advent, the museum is permanently closed at this location. Museum director Carsten Kollmeier and his team thanked the more than two million visitors who have visited the house in the past 13 years some of them several times: “It has been both a pleasure and an honor for us to be able to present Salvador Dalí as a virtuoso master in almost all techniques of art to an international audience. ‘Come into my brain,’ Dalí himself once invited, and more than two million visitors have enthusiastically accepted this invitation in Berlin’s pulsating Mitte.”
On two floors and around 1,500 square meters, the museum’s extensive permanent exhibition showed more than 450 original exhibits by the Spanish surrealist from February 4, 2009 to December 19, 2021, 364 days a year. In addition, there were special exhibitions, such as “Moses and Monotheism” (Sigmund Freud) until the end.
On the future of the collection, founder and museum developer Carsten Kollmeier says, “We are following the creative spirit of Salvador Dalí and reinventing ourselves. We are transforming the museum to present the surreal worlds of the exceptional artist at a new location in the future – larger, more colorful, more modern and more sustainable than before. We’re looking forward to it!”
At the moment, Carsten Kollmeier’s team is already examining the first promising offers: “We already have a large number of exciting national and international offers from the real estate world on the table and are sounding them out. The whole team is excited to see where the journey will take us.”
The museum “Dalí – Die Ausstellung am Potsdamer Platz” is the first and to date probably the only purely privately run art museum in Germany. From the outset, it ranked among the top ten percent of all museums in Germany in terms of visitor response, making it one of the most visited art museums. When the Dalí Museum opened in the center of Berlin in 2009, Leipziger Platz was still almost a wasteland. Carsten Kollmeier: “It’s hard to imagine that today, as the last object connecting Leipziger Platz to Potsdamer Platz was finally completed this year after now more than 30 years of the fall of the Wall.”
With these Corona rules, politicians want to bring the pandemic under control. The most important measures in Berlin at a glance
The Christmas season with Italian flair starts on December 11 and 12 in Berlin with the first Italian Christmas Market: chestnuts, cotechino with lentils, bombardino, torrone, baccalà balls, panettone, hot chocolate, arrosticini, lasagna, freshly prepared ravioli, panzerotti, pizza and many other traditional Italian delicacies from different regions.
Corona incidence in Berlin drops slightly today to 370.3 – but 203 Covid 19 patients in Berlin intensive care units. The occupancy rate of intensive care beds with Covid-19 patients was 19.1 percent on Wednesday, according to the situation report.
The Berlin Senate has reacted to the rapidly increasing Corona numbers. These Corona rules have been adopted:
The gourmet magazine Falstaff has asked its typically quite capable readers to vote for the best pizzerias. In Berlin, “60 seconds to Napoli” was determined as the winner by a huge margin.
It’s a done deal: People who have not yet been vaccinated against Corona or recovered from the disease will be largely excluded from public life in Berlin.
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