Sometimes you sleep in on the first day of your holiday, especially after getting up at 5.30am the…read moremorning prior. It's nothing to be ashamed of, but often we berate ourselves for doing so. 'We're missing bits of the day! There's so much to see! We can't justify breakfast at this hour!' Perhaps not, but 1pm is a perfectly feasible time for brunch... and in this case, as opposed to it equalling a meal between breakfast and lunch, it served as a combination of the two.
Hotly tipped Kültürzeit was the choice we opted for, and boy is this place great value. Not only is it decorated quirkily (you know how I dig this) and set up with a great selection of fun group tables and romantic little mini ones for two (to which they add candles... candles during the day! I love this decadence), you can choose wherever you want to be. Any apprehension we felt at being cheesy tourists at a local place was soon quashed by a) a friendly waitress who spoke to us in English and told us just what to do and b) a loud group of Aussies. We weren't alone in our rubbishness at German.
So basically the deal is thus: you pay 8 euros but not until you're done, and you can attack the brunch buffet as many times as you like. Drinks are on top but this doesn't hurt in the slightest. I've always had a strange relationship with buffets - I love them at parties and in select restaurants, but sometimes they've proved godawful. This one was so far from godawful I can't even begin to heap the hyperbole upon it that it deserves. It had me at this conversation:
Boyfriend (after nipping up to the buffet for the first round whilst I held the table): Could you test this out and tell me if it's onion ring or calamari?
Me (munched): It's calamari.
Boyfriend (calamari-hater): *Various expletives*
Me: And it just happens to be the best calamari I've ever tasted.
Seriously. I think it's ruined all other calamari for me. Every bit of it. In the world. Never have I not had to chew squid at least a little - this stuff just melted in your mouth. So that was there, piping hot, alongside cous cous, various fish and seafood, scrambled eggs, tuna salad, bean salad, pasta, bread, cheese, cold cuts, chicken, cereals, nutella, jam, piles more... just a brilliantly eclectic range of food that yelled, yeah, this is brunch. Deal with it.
My first experience of German coffee knocked my socks clean off and the OJ was fresh and refreshing, and goodness me were we set up for the day after that meal. This is the fuel you need for sightseeing, and at less than 10 euros a pop you simply cannot complain!
