Vapiano Berlin – review

Being hungry one cold evening in the heart of Berlin is not a pleasant feeling, but among options that pop up in your face is Vapiano, located nearby Brandenburg Gate, just a couple of minutes walk on Unter den Linden – there’s a passage and you get in, staff is friendly, prices? Not so much, but tolerable. We’ve ordered pasta creme di fungi and bruschetta and of course some beer, but at the end our conclusion was “this place is more like a fast food place masked as cool not fast food place”. Pasta was made in front of our eyes by a friendly cook, but the result had no taste, even with great and fresh ingredients, no taste, my amazing spouse can’t tolerate spicy food, but she settled even with adding chilly oil, lots of pepper, salt and well, it still – my daughter could cook a better pasta. Besides the lack of taste and poor quality cheesecake for desert, the place looks good and cozy. So if you are high or drunk and so hungry- you’ll eat about anything and not broke – you’ll love this place.

setting up your wifi? osx will help you pick the channel

There actually is some importance to picking a ‘free’ or not taken channel (or more) when configuring wifi, now ‘auto settings’ never show you what they do and the results are visible. For mac users, there is a built in tool, that can help with picking up the right channel. use your terminal and issue


/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport -s


you will get the list of nearby ssids, with their encryption type, channel and other info that might be useful