Viasko, Berlin: It Makes You Think of Fiasco But It's All Goodby Randi / September 19, 2014Kopps, Berlin: This Is How Brunch Professionals Do Brunch
When traveling, your best bet for finding good food is to listen to locals, letting them dictate which path your food tourism follows. In Berlin, we were lucky to have two friends there who planned an epic buffet brunch for us all at Kopps. Buffet brunch is like the big hip thing to do in Berlin, and I can’t imagine any other place’s offerings being as awesome as the all-vegan, never-ending spread at Kopps. The restaurant itself featured modern, Ikea-inspired decor (which I loved), and really great enormous picture windows (which let the sun bake my back and add a level of intrigue/sweat to the whole thing). It just seemed like such a chic place, you’d never guess it was an all-vegan establishment – there was no wicker furniture or patchouli smells (joking). Also, it was freaking packed! Reservations are required!
Early round plate
We quickly learned just why this place was so crowded. The food was ridiculous! There was very little labeling so I can’t say oh try this and try this. JUST EAT EVERYTHING. And then get four more plates. And then get dessert. Seriously, I don’t think anything was not delicious. (Except those little orange and green discs in the top picture. I don’t know what I thought they were going to be, but they were fancy pats of butter. Hahahahahahaha. Don’t just eat that plain. Oh man gross. Blechhh.)
Look at all this hot food and cold salads and stuff! It went on forever! There were pancakes and potato things and then all these amazing bean and grain salads. Oh now I remember something that was gross. See those little white cups of custard or something? I assumed (NEVER ASSUME) that it was going to be a sweet vanilla custard or cream of some sort – meaning, dessert. It was not. It was peppery and gross.
That is a tray of vegan cubed cheese surrounded by various salads, including an ‘egg’ salad that was amazing.
So many vegan lunch meats! Not my thing but dayum!
Lolol some wise person left their little cup of grossness at the buffet.
Yummy creamy potato something |
In the back were pancakes and this ridiculously amazing cherry sauce that people devoured |
Another savory plate. So freaking good. |
Those mini pancakes were the greasiest, oiliest, heart-attackiest most delicious things ever. |
I cannot wait to go back and continue to eat everything in sight! What a spectacular place! Why aren’t there fantastic brunch buffets in other cities? Does London even do brunch? I need to open a Kopps copy here. Have you been? Do you remember what any specific things were or is it all just a blur of deliciousness like it is for me?
KOPPS, BERLIN
Water speed: Decent, but the waiters were freaking super busy with that crowd.
Bathrooms: Very nice!
Food: Never-ending, delicious, just insane.
Bonus: They had fresh juices!
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We all know how much I adore Monica, yes? She gets angry in hilarious ways, she loves controlling everything, and she has really shiny hair. I aspire to be like her in most aspects. HOWEVER. Today we’re all about hating Monica. I KNOW!! Bitch needs a slap in the face for changing the food at Phoebe’s rehearsal dinner without the bride’s authorization. It’s worse than it sounds: In “The One With Phoebe’s Wedding”, Phoebe, the bride and a vegetarian, requests vegetarian potstickers be served so she has SOMETHING TO EAT AT HER OWN DINNER. But Monica in full-out bitchface mode commits an unforgivable sin:
Monica: (looking at Phoebe eating something) Pheebs, spit that out, that has pork in it.
Phoebe: Oh! I though the potstickers were supposed to be vegetarian!
Monica: Yeah, I changed them. I sent you a fax about it!
Phoebe: I don’t have a fax machine.
Monica: Ah, well then there are gonna be a few surprises!
F-ing A, Monica! I’m still livid on Phoebe’s behalf. EVERYTHING at a vegetarian’s wedding should be vegetarian! F*** the people who think otherwise. And DOUBLE F*** those people that we all know who don’t think they can go 4 hours without eating meat and think they are entitled to being fed meat at someone else’s wedding. F*** that noise. Obviously, I feel very strongly that if you have a certain way of eating, a party being thrown for you should cater 100% to your desires. It’s extra annoying because, for most restrictions, guests/relatives/strangers on the internet will agree with this…except for veganism. A person with celiac disease should have a gluten-free wedding cake, yes, they agree. A kosher couple should not be forced to wrap bacon around their cantaloupe or whatever people like to wrap bacon around, sure sure. Muslims should be able to have Halal-certified meat, of course (but don’t have meat, please). But when vegans try to have an all vegan wedding (or any event), cue the firestorm of negativity. It makes no sense. (But it is a very good way to weed out the people who you don’t want to waste your time playing with anymore.) Anyway, in honor of the 87 weddings I’ve gone to in the past 2 months, I am making Phoebe her vegetarian potstickers today. And they are going to kick Monica’s scrappy behind.
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VEGETARIAN POTSTICKERS
INGREDIENTS FOR DOUGH:
DIRECTIONS FOR DOUGH:
INGREDIENTS FOR FILLING:
DIRECTIONS FOR FILLING:
DIRECTIONS FOR ASSEMBLY:
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Mixing the dough with a chopstick like an Asian lady told me to 
This is the cabbage I used, obvs from Trader Joe’s 
Rolled out dough, ginger in background 
Cabbage filling 
Cooking in the oily water 
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These turned out really well! Yum! The bottoms did indeed stick to the pot, making the edges crispy but still chewy. With practice, I will hopefully be able to mold the dumplings into shapes that aren’t entirely awful. It’s hard! “I keep taking the test over and over again but I’m all, this is hard!”* So, make, enjoy, toast to Phoebe and her long-term vegetarianism (save while she was preggers), and flip Monica the bird! (But next time we’ll be back to worshiping her.)
*I know we have no current giveaway, but if anyone guesses the source of this, my favorite TV quote/scene ever, I’d be thrilled.
Mothers Day Feast: A Feast for Mothers
Holidays invented by the greeting card industry have annoying origin stories, true. But they are, with the exception of Valentines Day, great excuses to spend time with loved ones and eat good food. OK, Valentines Day is fine too. I love chocolate.
Mothers Day in particular is special for me, because I have the best mother in the world. Seriously, I know a lot of people say that, but it’s true in my case. (Actually, scratch that…I don’t know a lot of people who say that.) To celebrate my mother and the other mothers at our motherloving party, I cooked an epic vegan feast. One of my favorite things about family gatherings is that I can introduce free and delicious vegan food to my very suspicious relatives. There’s nothing more rewarding to a vegan cook than to have a staunchly carnivorous grandfather not only eat your food, but enjoy it.
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Mothers Day in particular is special for me, because I have the best mother in the world. Seriously, I know a lot of people say that, but it’s true in my case. (Actually, scratch that…I don’t know a lot of people who say that.) To celebrate my mother and the other mothers at our motherloving party, I cooked an epic vegan feast. One of my favorite things about family gatherings is that I can introduce free and delicious vegan food to my very suspicious relatives. There’s nothing more rewarding to a vegan cook than to have a staunchly carnivorous grandfather not only eat your food, but enjoy it.
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OMG I’m so excited. I’m in Berlin right now and made reservations for Kopps, so I was just trying to get the inside scoop… It all looks so amazing. I hope it’s still every bit as good now!
Omg jealous! I hope you have the best time in Berlin! Let me know what you think, it has been a while since I went to Kopps so I hope it is still amazing!