So this Berlin blog has turned into a food blog. Which is fine because food is the best. Anyway, this blog post is going to be about breakfast in Germany. So, a basic German breakfast is a roll (usually square for some reason), with sliced cheese and cold cuts. Maybe some jam. You can also have müsli (cereal that has a base of raw oats, and usually some sort of nuts, fruit, or chocolate flakes mixed in) with plain yogurt or milk. However, on Sundays, you get a treat of hard-boiled eggs. I figured this out when we went on our IPD excursions to Weimar and Hamburg—breakfast was included at the hostel, and only on Sundays did they ever have hard-boiled eggs. Never any other kind of egg. Just hard-boiled.
A typical German breakfast spread. (I forgot to take my own picture, so photo cred to https://thediaryofsugarandspice.wordpress.com/2013/03/25/i-live-in-a-place-that-part-one/)
However, fancy breakfast in Germany is very fun—almost more fun than fancy breakfast in America, since you get more stuff. One morning, some of us went to this one famous, fancy restaurant called Café Einstein for breakfast (since that was the only meal we could afford there, and we wanted to go). It was incredible! For the big breakfast, they go all out! I was full for the next five hours. Germans are big on sitting and casually enjoying meals, and breakfast is no exception. If you pass by a street full of cafes on a Saturday morning, you’ll find people sitting outside with two-tiered trays filled with rolls and fruits and eggs and things. Very unlike American Saturday brunch, though—no pancakes, skillets, bacon, or sausage to be seen. None of that “breakfast waffle” nonsense in Germany—actually, waffles are eaten as a dessert here. They’ll look at you pretty funny if you ask for a waffle for breakfast.
Three of us got the “Vitalfrühstück,” which had all these different kinds of breads, avocado spread, honey that came in a cute little glass container, herb cream cheese spread, goat cheese spread, butter, a ginger-carrot muffin, carrots and celery, fruit, and a large glass of müsli and yogurt in the middle!