ooh la la crepes in berlin
photo by ankor2
The guestbook at Creperie Bretonne has comments like: Finally, real crepes from Brittany here in Berlin! Maybe I’m not alone in this but I wasn’t particularly ever saddened by not finding real crepes from Brittany in Berlin. In fact, I’d never looked. During the past few weeks of checking out what’s new (or at least new to me), I did take note of Manouche, another crepe place near the Landwehrkanal. Filed away for future non-use. Apparently, I did not know what I’d been missing.
Rare night out (thanks to Oma and Opa). Dinner at Kantina von Hugo (a Kreuzkoelln fave?). Dessert at the Creperie.
The amusing part of the whole crepe experience was that German was not the language of choice. The older I get, the more problems I have with speed in language recognition with the languages I know. So when we were greeted, I couldn’t figure out what language it was. But then it just kept going and going. Service is French immersion style. It’s like a little neo-colonized swatch of Frenchiness as soon as you walk in the door. I don’t know how that works in practice. In our group, 3 out of 4 people actually spoke French. In theory, it’s awesome.
I tried to imagine the same dining philosophy with pick-an-ethnicity-without-an-accent-which-average-Germans-find-adorable-and-an-enduring-tradition-of-a-language-academy cuisine. It probably wouldn’t work greeting guests with Merhaba and expecting the guests to play along. People would protest. Integrationspolitik would be criticized. The downfall of Western society would be evoked and rights of cartoonists stridently defended. And no one would get to the food.
Crepes! That’s what this post was about. They were good. Very good. 5 stars. Would go back again, if only to try the creme de marron crepe. And the service is lovely if you can understand what they are saying. The person making the crepes was actually from Bretagne (Rennes). We chatted about Transmusicales. So go check them out. If Reichenberger Strasse finally gets its isht together and finishes the ridiculous construction, I’d go any and every time I ever wanted a crepe made by someone else.
Kantina von Hugo Friedelstr. 31
Creperie Bretonne Reichenberger Strasse 30
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