52 Weeks of Burgers

This is how we came up with the 52 Weeks of Burgers challenge, and our goal was to go to a different burger place every week in 2019. At the end of 2018, while most people are trying to come up with New Year’s resolutions to be healthier and get into shape, we decided to go in the opposite direction.

Here you will keep in touch with the places we visited, how much we like them and everything else you might need. And, if you have any suggestion, don’t forget to get in touch with us!

For another week of the #52weeksofburgers challenge, Fotostrasse visits the fancy Kumpel & Keule Speisewirtschaft in Kreuzberg. We visited the Kumpel & Keule stand in Markethalle Neun in September, and since then, we have been curious about their proper restaurant near Gorlitzer Park. Since this was the week of my birthday and I wanted a beautiful place to eat, we decided to pamper ourselves and try this place out.

Vincent Burger is this lovely cozy venue in Charlottenburg, quite similar in look and idea to what I believe is their brother restaurant; Rembrandt Burger that we previously enjoyed a bit. Close to it, you can find the supermarket where some of the key scenes in the movie Run Lola Run happened. If you like the movie, get the burger and take pictures of the location, one block away.

This is a lovely place. Everything was super well done and good quality. It’s a shame it is in a place we don’t have many reasons to go to, but if you are around, this is worth it! They also make all of their burgers with Beyond Meat patties!

Loveburger is a decently sized and recently opened 100% vegan burger place in Neukölln, so we decided to give it a go. We got there on a Thursday evening, the place is beautifully decorated. And the staff is lovely, it seems inviting both for a quick bite or a more extended, chatty meal.

Overall this is a lovely comfy place to eat an excellent vegan burger that makes the best out of their fresh ingredients. 

Peter Pane is a large burger chain around Germany, with beautifully decorated restaurants. We thought this would be an excellent way to check for once what is the German take on burgers. Overall, it is not a bad place, but it seems a bit pretentious for the quality of what we ate that day. The price is a bit high, the location is not that comfy, and the food is average. But they have a ton of vegan and vegetarian options.

This week Fotostrasse left Berlin for the challenge and explored Poland in the lovely city of Poznań. Since we cannot miss the chance to taste a different view on burgers, we looked for one that seemed kind enough and found Fat Bob Burger.

The place is big and nicely decorated, but I think we wronged ourselves by going there on a Friday evening. The place was busy, and since we were six people, it was a bit annoying to find a nice table. They offer menus in English if you are not a Polish speaker.

It’s time for another Asian inspired burger; Son Kitchen. This little window on the wall at Kantstrasse caught our eyes a few times before for its simplicity in the street crowded with restaurants.

Son Kitchen sells a few Korean dishes like Bibimbap, but today we are here for the burgers! This is just a window with the menu around it, and if you want to eat there, you can munch standing up on the two “tables” available or lean on the little counters.

BrewDog is a Scottish craft beer brand that has venues all over the world, and since we are beer drinkers (and official burger eaters), we had to give it a try.

There is a reason why this place is not so central; it is simply massive, easily one of the biggest venues I’ve been to here in Berlin. It is amazingly decorated, you can see the brewery in the back, a beer museum, many arcade machines and a shop with some merch.

The place is heavily used for larger events, so even though it is massive, don’t forget to make reservations. The staff is very lovely, and this is an excellent place for the non-German speaker.

This week of our peculiar #52weeksofburgers challenge, we go to Reichenberger Straße and munch at Reichen Burger. We were, once again, not wanting to go so far, so we found this place that we never heard before, and it was a big “why not?”.

This one would also make a lot of points in the Berliner burger shop bingo. Loud hip hop playing, the menu is on a blackboard behind the counter, everything kind of street style, order and get it by the counter, you know the deal… The people were super friendly to us, and the place is a bit bigger than usual, with a couple of tables inside and outside.

This week we ventured to Markethalle Neun in Kreuzberg to eat (almost) straight from the cow at Kumpel & Keule, a butcher shop dedicated to bringing back the art of butchery. There you will find beautifully dry-aged meat and homemade sausages, this sounds kind of pretentious and very hipster-like, but as we found out, they do it pretty fucking well.

After nine months of burger-eating madness, I thought I was starting to hate them… But after the first bite, I remembered that burgers could be so goddamn awesome! This is the classic case of a simple burger with fantastic ingredients, and that shouldn’t be so hard to find.

Burgermeister is definitely not your everyday one, on most times you will wait in line for at least half an hour, order what you want and maybe wait for your burger for more 20 minutes or more. There are no seats, just funky tubes with a bit of padding, and not so many so you might need to fight for them, we were lucky to get a corner in a standing table with other people.

Marienburgerie is a small place in the homonymous street Marienburger Straße, with a few seats inside and some tables outside to enjoy the weather. You order by the counter, and they bring the food to your table, no big secrets. We were meeting some friends nearby and why not to explore what seemed like some good looking burgers.

We got lazy around Neukölln and go to Burgerzimmer IV. Very close to the Boddinstraße U-Bahn station is one of many Burgerzimmers around the city, the place is bigger than most and looks a lot like your regular donner shop. As usual, you order your food, and you grab it when it’s done.

Fotostrasse visited a place called Burger Vision for the #52weeksofburgers challenge and discovers a very different “burger.” We were going to meet a few friends and watch a movie at Babylon and wanted to try something close by, ended up finding this place and their peculiar treat; deep-fried calzone burgers!

The 8 Burger is relatively big and has different decor from the usual, very colorful, with neons and lights. You go order in the counter, and they bring it for you, no fuzz.

Overall, this is a fundamental place that has reasonable prices and will kill your hunger, we would go back if we were super hungry in the area, but we would definitely not move our butts to visit again. We rate it a 6/10.

This week we enjoy a warm afternoon of our #52weeksofburger challenge in the surprising Hamburger Heaven. We decided to try this little hidden gem since Felipe had been there a long time ago and thought it was above average, and oh boy he was right!

Hamburger Heaven is just a window to the street, with the menu printed out in the glass, many seats on the outside and supposedly a few on the inside now as well, these were closed this time. But I bet they can be useful when it’s cold and rainy.

We were in the neighboorhood to run some errands and since this whole thing is about exploring we decided to go to a place that we never heard of Beef Fabrik.

Getting there this is a venue we could feel is focused mainly on the delivery, the shop is not small, but the direct white light and darker walls give you quite an unwelcoming feeling, luckily for us, there are a few tables on the outside that were quite pleasant.

Since this 52 Weeks of Burgers thing started, we checked with our friends what would be the best places to eat around Berlin, and the amazing couple that runs Canal Alemanizando told us about this place we have never heard before called Rebel Room.

This is a small outdoor burger shop in Seestraße, order by the window, they call your order number, and you eat happily ever after in one of the seats in front of the shop.

The Butcher seemed to have one of the most beautiful burgers we saw while researching online, with a very surprising thick patty that we have been missing for a while, so we had to check it out. We made reservations and got there on a sunny Sunday evening.The place surprised us by being way bigger and fancier than we expected, it looks like the house of that wealthy and artsy friend that you don’t want to ruin any furniture when you get drunk around.

Schiller burger is quite popular in Berlin, and it has excellent ratings all around, so we could not escape doing this place a visit. This hits most of the Berliner burger venue bingo; small, full of stickers on the walls, menu on a blackboard over the counter, paper towels for the messy eaters, etc… Schiller is also super well located very close to the entrance of the Tempelhofer Feld, one of my favourite spots to cycle around on a beautiful day.

This week in Fotostrasse’s 52 weeks of burgers challenge, we visit an old friend: BBI. Berlin Burger International, aka BBI, has been Fotostrasse’s favorite burger for a long time, so it was inevitable for us to visit in this crazy quest of ours.

This being the first Berliner burger place I’ve been, it defines that concept for me; a small place, full of stickers and bizarre decor and the menu is on a blackboard on top of the counter. This is the classic eat and go place, you order, pay and wait for them to yell your name so you can sit outside in wobbly tables and eat your humongous meal.

After a long and delicious Easter holiday, Fotostrasse conquers one more place for the #52weeksofburger challenge: Rembrandt Burger. Hidden in a quiet street in Friedrichshain, Rembrandt is known for their exceptionally creative burgers and Dutch treats, so we had to check it out!

We arrived there around 7 pm aka the classic German dinner time, and as expected the venue was crowded, but there were a few seats available inside and even more outside, quite a big and beautiful place. The staff was friendly, and for a change, they come to you and get your order. All of our food arrived super fast and everything at once.

Continuing our adventure with vegetarian places, this week we visit Ryong, a beautiful Asian inspired restaurant in Prenzlauer Berg. Fotostrasse never heard about Ryong before, but since we are doing the 52 Weeks Of Burgers to try new things, we couldn’t resist the peculiarity of this place that not only has vegetarian burgers, and not only bao bun burgers but deep-fried bao bun vegetarian burgers!

The restaurant is charming, the decor is quite unusual but well thought of, and the lights set a very cozy mood. We arrived there at a gloomy and rainy Sunday afternoon, and this was all we needed. No waiting or anything and the staff was quite lovely, something perfect for this 52 Weeks of Burgers.

The last place we visited on this particular vegan/vegetarian month of the #52weeksofburgers challenge was Attila Hildmann Vegan Snackbar. We have always passed in front of this place, and a few people told us the food was lovely, so it was quite fitting for us to try it.

The Snackbar has two locations in Berlin; one on Charlottenburg and the one we went that is in Kreuzberg, near Kottbusser Tor. The place itself is not the most inviting one on the outside, and the bright lights and loud music make it very clear that this is a place to eat and leave. We also found it very funny that the area is scattered with the owner’s vegan recipe books, gives it quite a narcissistic feel to the place.

This week of 52 weeks of burgers Fotostraße went to Prenzlauer Berg to try the second burger of February; meet Burgers Burgers. We chose Burgers Burgers because we have heard very nice things about it, and it had some very nice reviews, but as you will see, it was nothing special.

We got there on a Sunday afternoon, and the venue is very cool looking, they have a beautiful ceiling and again, your typical Berlin burger joint; small, a few seats, you order, and you grab it later, the menu is on the walls, you know the drill.

On the last week of February, we went to Budapest and ate some burgers for our delightful #52weeksofburger challenge. 

When we started to look for burgers there, we decided it would be nice to go to a less touristic venue, so as my research showed, Pesti Burger was the perfect spot for our weekly munchies.

Pesti Burger is hidden in the middle of a block, close to some high schools and unis, and that is mainly their target audience. We got there on a Tuesday around noon; the place looks very nice and clean, not as fast food like as google pictures show. We could choose a place to sit comfortably and the staff is super friendly (and speak English, in case you are worried about your Hungarian skills).

In the corner of Motzstraße, surrounded by fetish stores in Schoneberg you will find the burger of the week; Zsa Zsa Burger. We decided to visit this place since it was one of Felipe’s favorites, it seemed cozy enough for the stormy winter we are having in Berlin, and well, what a fantastic choice.

Zsa Zsa Burger is what I would describe as a grown-up burger place, it is beautifully decorated without overdoing it, the menu is focused on the high-quality ingredients and the service is very very good. Music was nice, and the place is very inviting to stay for a while, chat and have a few drinks.

They have a lot of burger options here, they all sound delicious and come with a 200gr patty, and you can choose between whole wheat bread or sourdough. With the help of the staff, I decided the Bronx Burger (€13,10); sourdough bun, Swiss raclette cheese, and sautéed mushrooms.

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