Favorite Restaurants and Cafes: Lu Loves Belmundo

Hello everyone! Here's a new blogpost as addition to my Potsdam guide blog feature and as a new episode of my series of favorite restaurants and cafés.
Belmundo is one of my favorite places in Potsdam for having a delicious snack and for enjoying the nice atmosphere. It's not only a restaurant and café, but also a place for shopping: they sell handmade items by local creatives and they support local art.
Apart from some sweet treats, Belmundo offers two main kinds of food: Portuguese croissants (sweet and savory) and Kumpir. The latter is my favorite: potatoes baked with cheese and then filled in all kinds of different variations, for example in Greek style with olives, feta, onions, and so on, or in Indian style with curry sauce. Mhhh, each time it's hard to decide which one to take!
Moreover, I do not only count this place to my favorites because of the good food, but also because of the super pretty interior. You might probably know that I'm a sucker for pretty vintage furniture and Belmundo is full with this. The beautiful counter, the tables, chairs, old cabinets; all these things make me happy when eating there.
Mhhhh, the croissants, heavenly!
When it's not too cold, you can also sit outside in front of the pretty old building.
So this is a place I can totally recommend when visiting Potsdam and writing this blog post made my mouth water, can't wait to go there again pretty soon! :)

Happy day!
Lu

Here's how you can find Belmundo:
Belmundo
Jägerstraße 40
14467 Potsdam
Call: 0331 / 23 18 48 22
E-mail: info@belmundo.eu
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Favorite Restaurants and Cafes: Lu Loves Fräulein Burger

Hello everyone! I read about it in Couch magazine, I heard colleagues talking about it, I heard friends talking about it - and then I defintely HAD TO go there!
Since my first visit this past summer (and since when those photos have been waiting on my laptop), Fräulein Burger has become my very very favorite place for eating good burgers and that for two reasons: their burgers are awesome and I absolutely adore the look and overall concept of this restaurant!
When you go there, you'll be overwhelmed of eye candy: Fräulein Burger is lovingly decorated in 60s retro charme, everything is bright, red and white and even the people in the kitchen (into which you can look while you are waiting and eating) and behind the counter wear 60s inspired accessories matching the restaurants interior (oh, how much I love such details). 
Not only the restaurant itself is pretty, but also their corporate design including leaflets, menu and burger atwork on the wall. Everything fits so well together, looks super appealing and makes just happy. I'm a total sucker for great concepts like this!
They have a variety of tasty burgers, but you can even put together your own favorite one. You can choose between normal meat buns, vegetarian burgers or even a vegan version. What is more, their homemade fries and vegetable sticks are sooo delicious!
This is one of the meat burgers which Flo has tried, mmmhh!
If you go there, their homemade sauces are a must and they even make ketchup and mayo themselves.
My favorite is the vegetarian burger with salad and goat cheese, oh my god, so incredibly delicious!
And not to forget that all their ingredients are organic and mostly regional, this makes it even better.

While writing this blog post, looking at those photos made my mouth water and I feel the urgent desire to go there again very soon. :)

In case you're gonna go there, you will enjoy the best (veggie) burger you're ever gonna eat! :)
Happy day!
Lu

Here's how you can find Fräulein Burger:
Fräulein Burger
Koppenplatz 1
10115 Berlin
Call: 030 / 46720908
E-mail: mail@fraeuleinburger.de
Click to visit their website

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Favorite Restaurants and Cafes: Lu Loves Glücklich am Park

Do you know those places where you would travel really far just to go there because they are so pretty and it simply makes you happy being there? Kauf Dich Glücklich (in English: Buy yourself happy) and Glücklich am Park (in English: Happy in the park) are some of those places! Kauf Dich Glücklich is a fashion online shop and they also have several small offline stores. Two of them are located in Berlin. One of them is only a cafe, the other one - which is Glücklich am Park - also sells fashion.
For all of you Berlin people among my readers, this place might not be something new for you, but because many of you live somewhere else and often send me e-mails asking for Potsdam and Berlin places which are a must see and go, I couldn't resist showing you this place which belongs to my favorites when spending time in Berlin, in summer as well as in winter.

I always go to Glücklich im Park (or also to Kauf Dich glücklich) because of their nice furniture, their lovely atmosphere and because of their heavenly good waffles, hmmm, but you can also get the best ice cream, savory waffles and good coffee and in summer, they will also serve refreshing drinks.
Everything in there is filled with vintage furniture, pretty pops of color, bright and white walls and cute decor elements.
My very favorite thing there are the sweet waffles with hot cherries or ice cream, my very very favorite ice cream flavor there is Milchschnitte (which is a creamy German sweet treat made with lots of milk and sugar ;)), yum!
What I love a lot are all the colorful chairs and white tables outside, maybe the thing which this place is most famous for. In summer, I love sitting outside and drinking a super refreshing elderflower syrup drink with fresh mint, so delicious!
The whole place is so nice to look at, on the inside as well as on the outside. It simply makes me happy going there and see all the pretty details.
If you're in Berlin, you definitely have to go there and try a waffle, you won't regret it! :)
Lu

Here's how you can find Glücklich am Park:
Glücklich am Park
Kastanienallee 54
10119 Berlin
Call: 030 / 41 72 565
E-mail: shopping@kaufdichgluecklich.de
Click to visit their website

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Favorite Restaurants and Cafes: Lu Loves Mutter Fourage

Hello my dearest readers! :) Because I frequently receive mails in which I am asked about my favorite shops and restaurant recommendations around Potsdam and Berlin, here's a new post showing you one of my favorite places, Mutter Fourage. This is a wonderful family business with a super pretty wholefood shop with organic and regional groceries, a flower shop, a small art gallery and restaurant and cafe on their super pretty yard in Berlin-Wannsee.
My mother found this place on the Internet while she was looking for local organic and vegetarian restaurants (but they also offer dishes with meat and fish) and we were super excited about this pretty place.
The whole big yard is filled with pretty flower pots, flowers and herbs (which can all be purchased) and is super pretty to look at.
Beautiful flowers everywhere one can look.
The atmosphere in their cafe and restaurant is fantastic, one can directly sit among all those super pretty and gorgeously smelling plants (but there are also tables inside for cold and rainy days).
They offer cakes made by a small traditional bakery and all their healthy food is homemade and with fresh ingredients. Mhhh! 
Oh, how I love all the cute corners in which one can spend the afternoon and there's so much to look at! Flowers, pretty old flower pots, the old buildings...
In the middle part of the yard, there's the tiny organic grocery store. There one can also buy pots with fresh herbs.
All those pretty flower pots!
When we have been there for the last time about one week ago, there were already lots of pumpkins for the upcoming new season. Welcome fall!
On this photo you can see their cute flower shop, so nice with the wooden building and all those colorful flowers!
This place is a really beautiful oasis and it's so nice sitting there in between all the green plants for a nice piece of cake or a healthy savory lunch!

Here's how you can find Mutter Fourage:
Mutter Fourage
Chausseestraße 15a
14109 Berlin-Wannsee
Call: 030 / 805 23 11

E-Mail: post@hofcafe-berlin.de

Click to visit their website

Have fun! Lu

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