Brunch O'Clock
What’s the time Mr Wolf?
Recently we have been taking part in a very “Berlin” thing: Brunch! It seems all the cool young people and also families will pop out on a Sunday morning to a restaurant and indulge themselves on a buffet of delicious food.
We normally have Sunday morning breakfast eggs at our house with all the delicious trimmings of German bread and toppings. Occasionally we will go all out and have an English breakfast. However, we have recently discovered how lovely it is to have brunch out and today I’m going to tell you where our favourite place is.
Hoppegarten is in Steglitz, in the south-west of Berlin. A friend told us about it and we eagerly went along to try. I think the main reason was hearing about the 7-page menu for breakfast. Yes, that’s right: SEVEN pages. It’s difficult to decide what to get. Whether you want something sweet, savoury, meaty, healthy… they have absolutely everything. I go for the sweet breakfast and Jason goes for the Steglitz breakfast – named after the local area. It’s overflowing with meat and you even get a pancake on the side.
The place is very welcoming, the staff actually polite and the food is amazing. We saw a man order a pork shoulder and OMG it’s the biggest slab of meat I have ever seen, so I’m sure we will be going there for something other than brunch one day too, but for now, go try it for yourselves 🙂 You will probably find us in there…
8 Comments
bevchen
Seven pages of breakfast? That’s amazing!
Vanessa Abel
Haha – come and join us – it would be lovely to meet you 🙂
Emma
That sounds incredible! They like Brunch down here too, although I would say it’s bigger where we lived before in Copenhagen. They LOVED it there! 7 pages of breakfast menu, I would be there all day! 😀
Vanessa Abel
Brunch-ing isn’t really big in London yet, but I’m sure it could get there there too. Haha about being there all day, seriously once you have finished your meal you won’t be needing any more food for the rest of the day. I would say a massive walk followed by a nap is about all we can usually manage 😉
Christie Dietz (Eating Wiesbaden)
B point blank refuses to have a go at doing brunch. I think having lived so long in Berlin in the days before all the amazing food came about, he just remembers buffets of cold cuts that looked like they’d been sitting out for days, (and probably tasted like it, too). So he just doesn’t want to eat brunch ever again, and nothing will convince him otherwise! But this looks really, really good – is that a whole pork steak next to those eggs?! That’d set you up for the day!!
p.s. what is the pink stuff on the pancake?
p.p.s. “the cool young people” ? – you’re showing your age 😉 hahaha
Vanessa Abel
Brunch is now absolutely amazing and if the food is bad people just don’t go – so most places are heaving and delicious! It’s practically impossible to even get a table most weekends now – you MUST try it – we will go with you next time you are in Berlin 🙂
Jason had the meaty brunch and didn’t eat again until the evening – there was pork steak, pigs-in-blanket AND meatballs – crazy amount of food. The pink stuff on the pancake was raspberry yogurt (YUM!!). Seeing as we are still “cool young people” let’s go for lunch 🙂
Charlotte
Awwww I miss German brunch!
And double Awwwww my best friend always called me Steglitz every since we went on a school trip to Berlin in upper school!
Vanessa Abel
Hahaha – I never noticed how close your name is to my hometown 🙂