Mexican Food in Berlin, Germany

I still remember the first lunch Martin and I had when we returned to the United States in 2008.  We were suffering from major culture shock (yes – the biggest culture shock in my entire life happened when I went back home to America.).  We practically spun out of the parking lot with my brother’s-in-law car to hit up our favorite burrito place.  We were feeling seriously deprived.  And we actually had to wait a couple of hours for the burrito place to open.  Darn jetlag!

If there is one thing every American expat craves in Germany, I think it’s safe to say the answer is always, always the same:

Mexican food!

Berlin has a lot of German “Mexican” restaurants.  But they’re pretty weird.  Think funky salad dressing and corn sprinkled on everything.  That doesn’t count as “Mexican” in my book.  And once when I ordered a burrito, the waitress couldn’t understand my American accent.  ”Burrito,” I said.  ”Huh?”  I tried again, rolling my r to sound Spanish.  ”Burrrito!”  She didn’t get it.  I finally had to just point in the menu.

Gosh – the world needs more American-style Mexican if you ask me.  More tortillas.  Corn chips.  Cilantro.  Oh my!

So this post goes out to all you in Germany.  If you weren’t already thinking, “Boy, we should really swing by Berlin to visit the Pergamon Museum and Katie,” well now you will just have to hop on over here.  In fact, you can even buy me lunch.

This lunch to be exact:

At this restaurant right off of Alexanderplatz:

That’s my fab friend from high school sampling her first burrito in YEARS.  She actually married a German and moved to Germany, too.  (Seriously – what are the odds?)  I’m so lucky we reconnected, and I love making people like her happy with this little shop oozing with American food.  It may just be the ticket to get her back down to Berlin for another weekend!

The address is:

Dolores Gourmet Burritos Americanish
Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße 7
10178 Berlin

I’ll see you there!

(Huge thanks to the FIFTH Katie I’ve met in Germany for introducing me to this shop.  IOU.)

And now I’d challenge all of you to think back on a food from your past that you haven’t had in ages.  Would it be something your grandma used to cook?  Or an every-day food from where you grew up?  Maybe it was the local favorite in the town where you grew up.  Whatever it is, I hope you share.

I can’t make any promises about finding it for you.  But sometimes, it’s beautiful to think back on our senses because a funny thing happens.  You’ll seldom just remember a food.  You’ll start remembering the places and the people and the details of life that went with that food.

Pssst… are you an expat living in Germany?  Stop by our Expat’s Guide to Life in Germany for gobs of info (right down to the details like finding filing supplies or vanilla extract).