Berlin Reified: Food, design and life in Berlin

Autumn on the lake (Grunewald)

At this time of year, there is no better place to enjoy autumn's elegaic atmosphere than the Grunewald. Around the lake, people appear newly bulky in their winter coats, while dogs frolic wildly along the water in packs of five. After a turn around the lake, you're hungry, and there's the somewhat grand, somewhat kitschy Forsthaus Paulsborn just waiting for you with its array of cakes and fall specials.

As you walk back to the bus stop, a few leaves falls from an oak. 

A perfect day in Berlin (I)

After a lazy morning, breakfasting on plum cake and mint tea, reading the Green, Blue and Indigo chapters of Color, walk down Stargarder Straße along Dunckerstraße to in't Veld and order a little dish of chocolate ginger ice cream, then nip at it while reading the SZ. After an hour, go to Goldhahn und Sampson to look at everything very carefully; be briefly tempted by a Gary Rhodes cookbook. Consider the luxury Malabar peppercorns but put off purchase for another day. Decide to have an early dinner at Sasaya. Head over to the piano salon and be bowled over Amit Friedmann's first concert.