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 food and eating where the locals eat, in this video we're
showing you some of the city's best artisanal food including delicious
cinnamon buns, gourmet sausages and mouth-watering gelato
before hunting down a traditional meal of fried chicken from a restaurant
that's been around since 1888 you don't want to miss this video get ready for
some incredible food
I'm Thomas and I'm Sheena and we're Chasing a Plate we hope
you're hungry let's eat!
in this video we wanted to show you two different sides to Berlin's food scene
so we've been eating our way around Berlin over the past few days and
filming a ton of videos and we've come across a lot of local artisans producing
really great food so in this video we're going to show you some of this more
modern local artisan food and then we thought it'd be really interesting to
finish with the traditional so really hearty German food
so starting with the modern and ending with the trad, we're standing right outside our
first spot, it's a bakery called Zeit Für Brot which means time for
bread and they do a really really delicious cinnamon bun let's go and get
one
this first stop is a very modern bakery and this place is really famous for its
artisanal sticky buns, on the weekends you will see lines out the door and up
the street waiting to get these buns so we've ordered two versions of the buns
this one here is their absolute classic the classic sticky cinnamon bun so
that's just plain cinnamon flavor and then we also got peanut butter and jelly
so you can see the peanuts on top and a huge scoop of jelly or jam on top of
that one and we've got some coffees to go with them so I am going to get into this
cinnamon one so their classic cinnamon bun so it's quite a bready
cakey texture, let's just get a bit right off the side there oh yeah
look at that so packed with that sticky cinnamon mixture oh yeah I'm gonna go for the
whole thing
ohhh it's so sweet, so good
the texture of that bun is incredible
like I said it's sort of a bready, cakey mixture sort of like a firm cake
mixture and then the cinnamon flavor is so strong nothing worse than having a
bun like this where they skimp on the cinnamon and this is packed with
cinnamon it is delicious it's got a little bit of a crunch from some sugariness
it's in that sticky sauce and then that very strong hit of cinnamon and I
love that bready texture and it's nice and moist as well so not dry at all just
moist, sticky and packed with cinnamon flavor
we also ordered the peanut butter
and jelly bun so there's a huge glob of strawberry jelly on top and then some
raw peanuts and then I think there's peanut butter swirled throughout the bun
let's just crack this baby in half and see what it's made up of
all right so as Thomas said it's quite a cakey texture ohhhh I can see swirls of
peanut butter in there okay let's just get a
get a big mouthful, big glob of jam, some of those peanuts
strawberry jam and peanut butter is the most amazing combination it's one of my
favorites and this totally hits the spot it's got a really really strong peanut
butter presence and then the jam is really soft and gooey and sticky and sweet and
then the texture of the bun is just beautiful it's really, it's cakey but it's
still very light yeah that is good
we've come to a different part of town to visit Markthalle
Neun which translates to Market Hall number nine and this place has
been here since 1891 so it's a real representation of Berlin's modern food
scene so inside the market hall you've got a number of permanent vendors
local artisans like cheesemongers, wine merchants, bakers and then they're all
standing alongside food businesses which are selling Asian food, African food, pasta
all sorts we're here to eat sausages from a local butcher, let's go
we've ordered our sausages from the butcher Kumpel & Keule they're really
well known for good quality meat and being really transparent about it so
it's owned by a young group of guys the shop's made up of big windows and you can
watch them actually breaking down the animal and what's really neat is that
you can choose anything from the cabinet and they'll cook it up for you so we
went with the sausages because you can't come to Germany and not eat sausages so
we got the salsiccia so this one is made up of veal and pork there's some
fennel in there sage and lemon rind and then we went for the bacon bratwurst
which is made up of bacon, pork, roasted onion and also some Worcestershire sauce
and it comes with a huge splodge of mustard and also some bread and some
micro-greens and some tomato on the side
I'm going to start with the salsiccia
so the one with the lemon rind and the sage so the butcher was telling me that
they make their sausages fresh every morning okay
Wow so much flavor, so quite chunky in its texture there's a really good
amount of meat and fat in there it's a really good balance and you can really taste
that fennel and that sage really strong herb flavor hmm that's really good
I'm gonna
grab this other sausage so this is the one with bacon, pork, Worcestershire
sauce and some roasted onion so this sounds like my sort of heaven I love
bacon, I absolutely love roasted onions when they get all caramelized and sweet
let's dunk this into this mustard so I want to coat it in the mustard let's go for it
Ohhhh
oh that is a good sausage, ohhh that's incredible, the bacon flavor so the
smokiness of the bacon and the onions the sweet flavor of the roasted onions they
both just scream in that sausage that is really good really strong flavor oh that
is nice these were really expensive sausages but they taste incredible I
find with sausages you pay not much you don't get much for your money but when
you pay a lot you get incredible quality meat and incredible quality fresh
ingredients these are really good and like Sheena said you can not come to
Germany and not have sausages they have over 1000 varieties of sausages
just in their cuisine so sausages are a huge part of eating here and these are
some really tasty, really fancy sausages
sausies at the butcher done that was really good and we have actually eaten
at a butcher here in another video in Germany I really like that
the butcher also doing the cooking it's really neat so we'll link the video up
there the one that we did with at the other butcher now we're gonna have
another artisanal thing here and that is some ice cream and this looks
really good
we picked up an ice cream cone from Rosa Canina
who do the most beautiful organic ice cream I went for butter caramel with
stone salt and cinnamon
oh my god holy moly the favours are really pure so that has
just got the most beautiful rich buttery flavor and then a really strong
hit of stone salt and then the cinnamon
I had this the other day and I just had to order it again it's got such a
beautiful sweet earthy cinnamon flavor and both of the ice creams are really
creamy
and I got apple and cinnamon so apple puree
oh wow so the Apple is really really sour the ice cream is not too sweet and
that cinnamon flavor comes through really really strong it's reminding me
of the cinnamon bun that we had this morning the cinnamon flavor is so strong
they have not held back on the cinnamon it's a beautiful texture it's a little
bit like a sorbet texture this ice cream not super creamy but really really tasty
this is very good
that's it for the artisanal part of this video we're now gonna head for the
traditional foods and we're gonna head to a tavern that's been around since the
1880s so very, very traditional and we're walking through some of the most
beautiful parts of Berlin to get there
it's time for some hearty traditional German food and this place that we're
visiting has been around since 1888 and they're really well known for their
crispy chicken and I am totally ready for a beer let's go
we've been sitting in the beer garden at this restaurant and we've started in on
our beers because they cook the chickens to order so we waited about half an hour for
our crispy chicken and holy moly it looks really good and they're really
keeping it simple here it's literally half a crispy chook, a couple of slices of
brown bread and then we ordered some sauerkraut on the side so sauerkraut
is fermented cabbage now if you have watched our videos in the past you will
know that I am a fried chicken fiend so I am super excited about this meal
all right so what I'm gonna do is just cut into it, holy moly it is super tender it just
ripped apart really easily all right this chicken is so moist but
the skin is super crispy so I've cut into the drumstick let's taste this thing
whoa that is really good fried chicken the skin, it almost shatters as you
bite into it it's so crispy and then the meat is really really moist I can
see why this place is famous, I'm gonna get into this sauerkraut because I
reckon that the sort of pickled flavor is gonna really balance out the fried chicken
pretty well all right so I've got a piece of this um crispy chicken skin and then a mouthful
of that sauerkraut
the sauerkraut is really really soft, juicy so it's been
cooked right down there's no crunchiness whatsoever so sauerkraut is the fermented
cabbage and it's got a beautiful sourness, vinegar-iness it works perfectly
with that fried chook
all right let's get one more mouthful of this fried chook
the chicken has a lot of flavor and I just love the contrasting
textures so you've got the soft meat and then the crispy skin and I love the simplicity of
the dish, they're good at fried chicken and that's what they serve
so half a fried chook, couple of slices of bread and then sides if you want it and
pretty much everyone in the place has got just an order of half fried chook
I'm loving this
we're gonna get into our beers and enjoy our fried chicken, prost
that was a great day of fooding, haha fooding, eating...