CHICHA – Ceviche Heaven

This amazing little Peruvian street food pearl has grown to become one of our absolute favourite restaurants in Berlin. Always friendly, always fun and always impeccably tasty. Except from the permanent menu where the flagship courses can be found (like the various types of ceviche, yuca and plantain) they also present special daily dishes – which in our opinion, is where the real tasting experience happens – simply delicious! Favourites among these have been broiled tuna and different variations of oysters just to mention a few. Not that we need to convince you any further, but this place also serves the best Pisco Sour in town.

Area: Neukölln
Friedelstraße 34, 12047 Berlin
U-bahn: Schönleinstraße (U8)
http://www.chicha-berlin.de/

East & Eden – Favourite Café

This place has since it opened about half a year ago turned into one of our absolute favourite spots in Mitte. We first heard about the place as “The new Danish café on Torstrasse” and we were more than intrigued to try it out. When visiting the first time and talking to the owner, we got to know that she was rather surprised to hear the rumours as she never promoted the café as being Scandinavian. However, you can clearly feel the nordic vibes going and the menu is a huge giveaway; “kanelbullar” and tuna sallads with dill…. just saying!

The atmosphere at East & Eden is always calm, friendly and easy going – perfect for a relaxed lunch in the middle of the week. A delicious coffee and carrot cake to round it all off is a must. 

Address: Torstrasse 141
D-10119 Berlin
(U-bahn: Rosenthaler Platz)
Open: mon-fri 8-18

THAI & TECHNO – Summer edition

Hi Guys. Remember our post from last spring about Thai & Techno? The time has come for another fantastic night with amazing food and tunes. The event will take place this Friday the 24th and will be at FluxBau. And this time we are sure the weather will be hot enough to hang out at the terrace. You can also check out the event on Facebook for more details.

Where: FluxBau ­ Pfuelstr. 5 10997

When: Friday, 24 July 2015

Time: 18 -­ late

Cost: Entry 3€.  5€ after 11pm

Gipfeltreffen

Here’s another coffee house tip in Berlin Kreuzberg. Gipfeltreffen is a great place to go to when you are hungry for a yummy brunch. Gipfeltreffen is situated in Görlitzer Str 68 and we do recommend a fantastic walk down the “Spree” or “Landwehrkanal” after you enjoy eating.

 

Berlin in the heat! – Where to cool down

The weather is Berlin has been crazy hot and the only thing you can do is walk between places with cool drinks and hope to find a free spots and if you are lucky enough you can find a swimming pool. Haubentaucher is a relatively new place in Berlin where you can enjoy a nice beach bar mood with a beautiful swimming pool in the middle. Haubentaucher is situated on Revaler Str. 99 and we recommend you go there early on hot days if you want to get a free spot.

 

Pros: beautiful and clean location, good vibes and good music. Fantastic swimming pool

Cons: gets really full on Weekends. You can not bring your own drinks or food

3 € Entry

Another great thing you can do and this is our all time favourite. Rent a boat. You can rent a boat in many places around the lakes in Berlin and one of the places we went this last Weekend was Müggelspree/Müggelsee. If you don’t have a boat licence you can still rent a boat for up to 4 people and prices are not too high. It’s so much fun on a hot day to go sailing and last Saturday was perfect as the temperature in Berlin was 37 degrees!! GOSH!!

Other places around Berlin which are fun to visit on a hot summer day;

-Schlachtensee

-kleine badewiese

-Müggelsee

-Badeschiff

-Prinzenbad

 

Prague – A Weekend Guide

Prague is one of our new favorite cities for a weekend trip – not only is it close and easy to access from Berlin – it’s also one of the most beautiful and well preserved cities in Europe. A couple of weeks ago we took the chance to go over a long weekend and had an amazing time strolling around, eating great food and drinking liters of tasty Czech beer. And the best of all, this city is one of the cheapest capitals in Europe.

Here is our top 5 for an awesome experience in Prague;

1) Best areas to stay
On our last trip we stayed in district 5. It’s a fantastic area because you can walk quickly to the city center and other nice sightseeing places. District 5 is one the other side of the river from the city center but it’s actually a beautiful walk between district 1 and 5 so we definitely recommend staying there. Other areas which are nice to stay in are district 1 and 7.

2) Sightseeing
We don’t really consider ourselves big tourist geeks, but we still always try to see interesting historical things about each city we visit. Prague is one of those cities where you can just feel the history. It’s unbelievable. So if you want to check out some sightseeing then check out these places.

St. Vitus Cathedral
Charles Bridge – psst… search for a golden statue with 5 stars and make a wish.
T Aker – A great rooftop bar with an amazing view!!
Prague astronomical clock – An amazing 600 year old astronomical clock in the city center.
Žižkov Television Tower – A great place to watch over the city. Also, there are weird baby statues crawling up the tower.

3) Restaurants
Restaurace Na Rozhrani – This Czech restaurant is just amazing, go there GO!
Dish – Delicious burgers

– BRUXX – Belgian seafood restaurant

4) Café and a bar
– mamacoffee – Get a seat on the top floor by the window.
– Bugsy’s bar – Great cocktails if you want to treat yourself one night.
– Bistro 8 – beautiful cefé in district 7
– Café Lounge – Fantastic brunch

5) Street smart
– Every time you take a Taxi, say where you want to go and ask how much it will be. ALWAYS say no to the first price they offer you and say that you only pay half of that amount. They will pretend to be mad and walk aways. Then something amazing happens. Another Taxi driver will come to you ask what price you are willing to pay. they will pretend to be very offended by that price but still drive you. Trust us, it happens every time. At lest for us.

– If you are one of those people who likes to eat slowly, hold on to your plate!! Czechs are crazy about taking everything of the table that is not in use and they try any excuse to take your plate away if they think you have finished your meal. Maybe it’s only that we have gotten used to the relaxing service that Berlin has to offer but this was actually one of the funniest moments in our trip when we repeatedly had to hold on tight to our plates.

For more tips about nice places to eat and hang out, check out Taste of Prague‘s website. They helped us a lot!

GÄRSNÄS – Iconic Swedish Design

All time Scandinavian favourite furniture brand GÄRSNÄS is broadening their horizons and is finally also available in Germany! This is definitely worth checking out.. you can find them on MONOQI.com for a few more hours..
I’ll just let the images do the talking..

THAI & TECHNO – Spring Edition

Hello darlings. The time has come for the great team of Opal Collective to have another Thai & Techno event. Prepare yourself to transform your Friday night into a food and music affair of modern Thai street food, Thai­-inspired cocktails and deep techno. We had the privilege of being invited to a pre-dinner and had the opportunity to taste all the delicious food Thai & Techno will have to offer. Everything tasted divine and we just can’t wait to go and try it all again. Now if that’s not enough, you will be happy to know that The Thai & Techno­ Spring Edition Cocktail Bar will be lead by a team of mixologists who will be making fantastic Thai flavoured cocktails.

So if you are free next Friday night I suggest you skip down to FluxBau and enjoy some fantastic food and deep techno music.

 THE DETAILS:
Where: FluxBau ­ Pfuelstr. 5 10997
When: Friday, 27 March 2015
Time: 18 ­ late
Cost: Entry 2€ before 11pm, 6€ there on after

PRINCE

Hello all, welcome to our new updated version of Flamingos & Foxes! We have been making many changes to the blog recently and decided we wanted to make it easier for all of you to search in a more categorized way. The prefect travel guide blog for the most vibrant cities of Europe right now, Berlin – Stockholm – Reykjavík! We will also share our favourite spots and places in other cities and countries when we travel – all to make it easier and more fun for you experience the world with us. We hope you all like the new look and concept!

Today we want to show you a restaurant we visited the other day. The place is called Prince and is situated in Berlin, Mitte and is a Asian tapas restaurant. We truly recommend this place if you are a group of friends looking for a fun place to go to. The cocktails are fantastic to say the least. For Berlin the price is bit higher but you get what you pay for and more.

We also wanted to tell you about this cool app we booked the restaurant with. It’s called Quandoo and you can book a restaurant directly through the app on your phone. It’s so much easier to have that option of booking through your phone instead of calling each restaurant when you are looking for a table.

 

 

A Day’s March – New Swedish Men’s Wear

A new favourite of ours is this Swedish Men’s fashion brand called A Day’s March. Available online (unfortunately only shipping within Sweden so far) and in their own store on Kungsgatan 3 in Stockholm. Their design is refreshingly simple and clean, with great quality and good prices. Definitely the tip of the month for new great fashion!