Yes, I know I keep blogging about food, but - who cares?!! I do. I care about food and here is another tasty source! Prinz, Tip and Zitty are unified in laudations, but also the Food & Wine magazine found this little place amongst 40 cities around the world.

Leo Bettini is specialised on dumplings and pasta in all different variations (and colours!). This beautiful dumpling picture is picked from their website www.leobettini.de.

Leo Bettini, Mulackstrasse 33, 10119 Berlin, Tel. (030) 60 50 74 49, mail@leobettini.de. Opening Hours Mo - Thurs 9:30 - 18:00, Fr 9:30 - 20:00, Sa 12:00 - 20:00.

Of course Greece is not known for pearls, so forget about the headline. But this is a very tiny place (a little bigger than a pearl, though) with very good greek food - to go and to have there. The restaurant in the back part of the location looks just like you were on a greek island with the fisherboats bobbing up and down along the waterside. Well, there is no water, but there are the little chairs and all the stuff on the walls and in the shelves that spread this relaxing taverna atmosphere.

I went there with Holger Volland (one of the other authors of this blog) and he took the picture, that’s why I am ON the picture paying my lunch - and Holger’s, too, because it was his birthday!

Kaliva, Wielandstrasse 37, 10629 Berlin (Charlottenburg), Tel. 3100 4550.

Open Mon - Fr (I believe!).

It seems to me that I am always blogging about food locations. No, I am not 90 kilos heavy, but yes, I like eating, so there’s another one. At lunchtime on Wednesdays in Friedrichshain you see nearly all of our staff wandering to the Spreebar where they have their Schnitzel Day. A schnitzel with french fries and salad for 5,70 EUR is fair enough, and if the weather is not like today (rain, rain, rain) you can even sit outside at the Spree and watch the boats go by. The atmosphere is fast and canteen like, and don’t expect too much quality concerning the food, but the staff is friendly and served Korbinian a second schnitzel today after he had complained (for no particular reason!). Spreebar is located at Stralauer Allee 2c, next to the Universal building (which includes another canteen right on the Spree).

Schnitzel - before and after!

Just newly opened up end of July this year, the oliv café is often packed (although not at the time I took this photo). It is a beautiful New York style place with some food such as muesli, cake and sandwiches and a really good coffee with a perfect ‘crema’. It has no “oliv” sign up at the outside yet, but never mind, you find it at Münzstrasse (corner Almstadtstrasse), not far from the adidas flagship store and Alte and Neue Schönhauser Strasse, the place to shop in Mitte. oliv is open on Sundays also. Aus Liebe!

Go for a lunch row in a red boat in spring and summer! Next to the Cafe am Neuen See these oldschool vessels can be hired. Punt along the meandering lakes in the central park after you got yourself a picnic at the packed out cafe/biegarten to take with you on your most relaxing lunch break. In late Autumn the hiring place shuts down, but the lakes are quite quickly safe to ice-skate on when the winter is harsh enough. With a flask of mould wine and some friends its a good start into a fun weekend.