we're in Berlin, Germany we are so excited to be filming a bunch of food
videos here let's get food hunting for this one
Berlin the capital of
Germany has a vibrant food culture in this three-part series we're hunting
down the best local German food and eating where the locals eat
in this video
we're eating traditional German food at a butcher's shop and finishing the day at
a beer garden you don't want to miss this video get ready for some
mouth-watering food
I'm Thomas and I'm Sheena and we're Chasing a Plate we hope
you're hungry, let's eat!
today is all about traditional food here in Berlin and we've heard that butcher
shops here often have a restaurant attached so you can go and buy your
fresh cuts of meat but you can also buy a meal and they serve some of the most
traditional foods you'll find so we're gonna go to this one right behind me
here so you can sit out on the footpath they've got seats inside as well and
we're gonna get some really traditional German food today
there's about 10 or 15 dishes on the menu at this butcher's shop and so we chose
some real classics so I have got a humungous portion of eisbein so
eisbein is pickled ham hock and it's served with some sauerkraut and also
some I think just boiled potatoes there's a some sort of sauce on top of
that and a huge splodge of mustard and then we also ordered the boulette so
the boulette is like a meatball and then it's come, it comes with braised red
cabbage some potatoes and then a really thick brown gravy these dishes weigh a
ton we couldn't help laughing when the lady was dishing up both of these
mains because they were just ginormous or they are just ginormous and they weigh a ton
they're so heavy these plates are just piled up with food
all right let's crack into this eisbein so this is the pickled ham hock and whoa
whoa look at that I'm barely touching the meat and it is just falling away it is so
tender, holy moly, all right let's get a bite of that meat I'm just gonna swipe
it through that mustard ohhh it's covered in that mustard
let's just give it a taste
Wow whoa it is so so tender, it's not dry at all, the ham hock has been brined so
when you brine meat you it tenderises it and that is tender as anything the mustard
is quite mild very creamy but has a little bit of a tanginess that is beautiful
with the meat, let's just go again I'm gonna get a, look at this, gosh it just
honestly it just falls away from the bone so easily alright so more of that
meat and then I'm going to grab some sauerkraut so sauerkraut is fermented
cabbage and I can see some fennel seeds in there
I think the sauerkraut has been warmed through
whoa oh it's really really good the sauerkraut has a beautiful tanginess
it's really soft, really sort of melt in your mouth and it works perfectly with
the meat which is quite rich so the pork is quite rich, a little bit fatty
that is beautiful
I've got this boulette or this meatball to dive into so as Sheena said
got this meatball it is swimming in a whole lot of very thick brown gravy
we've got the red cabbage which is pickled and that's slightly warmed I'd
say and then we've got a big pile of boiled potatoes so just straight up boiled
potatoes I see no butter or anything just they
are what they are and this sort of food is what I wanted to
be eating when we came to Germany really traditional, really classic food it's
really neat to be at this butcher shop as well I've never seen a restaurant
attached to a butcher shop like this so this is just a real local everyday butcher's
shop nothing special nothing is different but then has the restaurant
attached it's a really neat idea, let's cut into this meatball and look how big
it is, it's absolutely huge oh look at that thick gravy pushing out the sides
all right look at that so it's a really fine mince meat in there I think this is
a combination of meats I can't be sure but I think it's probably some beef
maybe some veal and it could even be more different meats in there so let's
get some meatball
on and the red, it looks like there's some chilies in there
as well to give it a little bit of a kick so we'll get some red cabbage some
meatball and that's covered in that thick brown gravy
Oh yum, oh that is good the meatball's not too strong in its flavour but it's got a little bit
of a smokiness where it's been grilled and the tanginess, the vinegar from that
pickled cabbage really comes through strong and that works perfectly with the
gravy the really thick gravy which i think is a beef gravy has a real beef
flavour but it's really mixed with the sauce from the cabbage so it's meaty but it's really
tangy from that, from that vinegar, it's
really good
let's get a bit a bit more of this meatball so you can see it's got
like a really hard crust where it's been cooked and it's like it's been cooked in
a lot of oil so almost shallow fried because the outside is quite crispy and the
inside is really soft you can see that there let's get ohhhh that potato look at
that covered in the gravy and then the meatball soaked in that gravy too
hmm oh that is good this is comfort food this is home cooking and what it feels
like it feels like real homestyle food and the flavour is incredible it's not
too full on, a little bit salty, a little bit sweet from the from the pickled
cabbage, this is delicious
we couldn't not get a beer to go with these meals so
beer is huge in Germany I mean you see beer shops and beer being sold and
consumed everywhere so to go with this meal we've got a Radler which will be
sort of a lager-y type beer and it should have a citrus flavour
hmm oh yeah really citrusy oh that's really good
that's actually perfect to go with these meals because the citrus flavor will cut
through the heaviness of the meal so that fatty element especially Sheena's
I'd say with that that fatty heavy pork that is a very nice beer
all right so I
admit that this is not the most beautiful-looking dish but holy moly it
is really tasty so I have got a piece of that eisbein, the sauerkraut and then
also some potato in this mouthful
oh it's delicious you've got the really rich meat
the tanginess from the sauerkraut and then that
floury potato
all the elements on the plate work really well together it's a really balanced meal
you can really get a good sign of what I'm talking about
with the mixing of the liquids there so you can see all the vinegary red gooeyness
from the from the cabbage mixing with that brown gravy and the flavour that's
creating is so so good now something we haven't covered so far with these is the
affordability these are incredibly cheap these meals so they're, mine is 5 Euro
and I think Sheena's is 6 so that's only 6 or 7 US dollars for this
huge plate of food this absolutely massive plate piled high
I mean Sheena has an entire pork hock on her plate
so incredible value these places as well and we hear that this one is even
phenomenal is beyond incredible value it's even cheaper than you will normally
find and the crowds are really starting to build now as we get closer to
lunchtime and I know why because the food is great, the atmosphere is great
and the value cannot be beaten, it's incredible
we sure are full after that, that was really good and it wasn't easy to find
that sort of place so a lot of the traditional food is actually being
served at touristy restaurants and we didn't want that we wanted a real local's
restaurant and that was about as local as it gets that was a really really neat
place to eat food like that we're gonna carry on the traditional food thing now
we're gonna go to a beer garden so German beer garden and sample some of
the local brews, woo hoo!
after that humongous meal lounging in a beer garden seemed like the perfect idea
so we've come to Berlin's oldest beer garden I think it's been around since
the 1800s and it's apparently really massive, it seats 600 people
but if you
come at 130 on a Wednesday you don't really need to fight for a seat so seats
600 there's about 8 people here so it's definitely not going to be the best
atmosphere but it should be incredible beer
it's a really nice hot sunny day here in Berlin so it's perfect to be sitting in
this beer garden and drinking beer so I ordered something which I've been really
curious about and that is a Berliner Weisse so it's a cloudy sour beer
that's served with either raspberry syrup or woodruff syrup, woodruff is a plant it
sort of has an earthy sweet flavour but I went with raspberry and this is like a
real Berlin drink I think it's normally something that's
drunken more by tourists than by locals but I'm still curious to try it so when I
saw it on the menu I had to order it all right it's served in
like this giant jar like glass
hmm, whoa yeah it's quite sweet because of the
raspberry cordial but then the sourness of the beer comes through so it's sort
of quite balanced it's really refreshing
I have a Prater Pilsner so this is a pilsner beer Prater is the name of this
beer garden so I assume this is their home brewed Pilsner it's very good just
very easygoing, great to drink on a hot day, prost, porst, porst? Prost? Prost.
so that's cheers in German
delicious on a hot day I really like this garden quiet like we said because
it's 1:30pm on a Wednesday but this would be raging when it's packed with people
but it's just a really nice place to sit even when it's quiet like this because
it's very peaceful surrounded by trees just a really nice place for a beer
and that was such a good lunch as well that we had, it was just really hearty, satisfying, it was
seriously hearty, I don't think we'll need to eat for the like, day
it was a lot of food, really good, remember to
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