Your Restaurant Guide - NYC

My Guide

My Friends

The Colony

Full Guide

Buzz

Tools

New York City

Restaurants

Browse Full Guide

Restaurants

All Restaurants

(3532)

Hallo Berlin

NYC Tastes 11 days ago

Hallo Berlin

For some reason I really seem to be hitting the German spots hard these days. We were meeting Mr. T's sister and brother-in-law for dinner Thursday night and she suggested hallo berlin. We got there right about 6:00 and took the last outdoor table. We were all having trouble deciding what to order so we went with the Sausage sampler platter.

Look at all those sausages!!! My arteries are clogging up just thinking about them!

I was surprised to see that they came all cut like this but it ended up being better for sharing.

We also got some herring which was actually really good. I grew up in a Polish household so my herring consumption was quite large, This was very good for herring., Much better than I could nave imagined.

The potato pancakes were kind of meh...No where near as good as Zum's and really a little mushy.

The fries were alright but nothing to write home about.

The cucumber salad was actually pretty bad. I love a good German salad but this was soft and watery.

So overall hallo berlin is probably my least favorite German place in the city. It has its place but it just doesn't really produce. I would take Lorely or Zum any day.

TAGS: Hallo Berlin, German, potato pancakes, Polish