Marcus Brau, Berlin

We stumbled across Marcus Brau while wandering through Berlin in search of a place for dinner. It's an unassuming little pub that serves your typical(?) German meat-and-potato-type dishes.

To start we had frisches bauernbrot, a dense German bread served with cheese, gherkin and dripping (yes, lard!). Once you get over the fat-factor, this is actually quite nice, similar to butter but with more flavour.

Frisches Bauernbrot

Andy, always up for a meat challenge, ordered the geschmorte schweinshaxe (roasted pork knuckle) which came with potatoes, sauerkraut and a huge dollop of mustard.

Geschmorte Schweinshaxe

I had the thuringer rostbratl, a more modest serve of panfried pork with onions and potatoes. The pork was a little boring on its own but not bad with the fried onions and potatoes - goes to show that everything tastes better fried! :D

Thuringer Rostbratl

Irene went for the Flammkuchen, a German style pizza, this one topped with sausage and cheese.

Flammkuchen Marcus Brau

All in all, Marcus Brau lived up to our expectations of meat-and-potatoes German food!