Berlin from a West-Berliner – in funny English
In order to support the sufferers of the conflict, Contipark will donate a sum equal to the daily takings generated in the underground car parks “Friedrichstadt-Passagen”, “Los-Angeles-Platz”, “Kranzler-Eck” and “Am KaDeWe” on the coming Sunday, March 06, 2022, to the alliance “Aktion Deutschland Hilft e.V.”.
On March 19, the new restaurant Balaustine will open in Berlin Mitte with Modern Middle Eastern Cuisine. Balaustine, the blossom of the pomegranate tree, symbolizes the culinary art of the Middle East. A kitchen with many spices and fresh ingredients.
The perfect pair at the Grand Hyatt Berlin: Japanese tradition meets Laurent-Perrier champagne on March 12 and August 20
On the first Sunday of each month, the Ritz-Carlton am Potsdamer Platz offers a luxury brunch with a variety of delicacies and Louis Roederer Champagne.
In a big city like Berlin, a break in a coffee shop with a cup of coffee is a good idea. Coffee shops are a dime a dozen here, but which are actually the most popular in the city? Smaller specialty coffee roasters that sell coffee with passion and a sustainable approach don’t miss out in Berlin.
My wife wanted to go to prison and to enjoy there. That’s going well now that the prison has moved out and a hotel has moved in instead. In the hotel restaurant Lovis cooks the former sous chef of three-star chef Marco Müller, Sophia Rudolph.
New opening in Friedrichshain: Contemporary Neapolitan pizza and deep-fried specialties at Spaccanapoli No. 12
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.”