Berlin evening food tour by bike | Review with prices
A Berlin evening food tour by bike is a good way of exploring the German capital while tasting some of its best food. Prices start at EUR89.
Berlin evening food tour by bike prices
At the time of writing, the Berlin evening food tour by bike, run by Fat Tire, costs EUR89. To skip the review and just book, head this way.
Otherwise, read on…
4 best things to do in Berlin
The best things to do in Berlin include…
- Berlin walking tours – pick the ones on specific topics to get the best experience.
- Sachsenhausen concentration camp tours – led by an expert historian.
- See the city highlights on a three hour bike tour.
- Learn about life in the former East Germany at the DDR Museum.
Berlin evening food tour by bike review
The Fat Tire evening food tour around Berlin by bike satisfies several traveller needs. It brings healthy exercise and it explores the Mitte and Prenzlauerberg districts. But it also gives an overview of the city’s history, and explores Berlin’s food scene.
Essentially, it’s a three course meal, but spread over different restaurants and a few hours.
Berlin bike tour along the Berlin Wall
After the first face-stuffing stop at the Dada Falafel Bar – a rather tasty insight into how influences from the Middle East have shaped Berlin – we find ourselves going along the path of the Berlin Wall. The symbolic barrier between east and west was pulled down 25 years ago, but Bernauerstrasse has been preserved as an open-air museum.
Pulling over by one of the few remaining stretches of wall, our guide details the grimness of the situation in the divided city. “There was an inner wall, an outer wall and a death strip between with beds of nails, deranged dogs ready to rip you to pieces and automatic machine guns in the watchtowers,” says out guide.
“They went to extraordinary lengths to ensure the guards wouldn’t escape either. No-one would ever do two shifts with the same person, and they were not allowed to talk to each other.”
German tapas on a Berlin food tour by bike
Our main course comes in Restaurant Die Schule, which as the name would suggest, is part of a language school. The twist here is that it serves up what can only be described as German tapas. There’s flamkuchen – a Teutonic take on pizza – a rolled beef steak on a bed of red cabbage and an utterly tremendous “eisbein”, a small pork knuckle on a bed of peas. The sole uniting theme seems to be that it’s excellent food to wash down with a beer.
Bike tour through Prenzlauerberg, Berlin
Continuing on through Prenzlauerberg, there’s a handsomeness that much of the city lacks. “This is what Berlin should look like,” says our guide. “Only 20% of the area was affected by bombings in World War II.”
Anna Blume cakes in Prenzlauerberg
One of the dreamy art nouveau-tinged buildings belongs to Anna Blume, which is part flower shop and part café. It’s a fine way to round off the evening with that most Germanic of experiences, coffee and cake. The cakes – Sacher tortes, raspberry cream behemoths, chocolate gateaux, the works – fight for attention and are greedily wolfed amidst borderline erotic-looking red banquettes.
The ride home is wobblier – amarettos tend to slip into coffees at this stage in the evening – and more calorie-laden. But, mercifully, Berlin is flat geographically, if completely the opposite in personality.
To reserve your spot on the Berlin food tour by bike, book here.
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