Der Kleine Buddha

Overall rating: 3.0 stars 3 Reviews
Serves meat, veg options available. Vegetarian friendly organic bistro and health food shop with many vegan choices. Offers salad, soups, cakes, and alternating dishes such as falafel platter, pasta, spelt crepe with vegetable or sweet filling. All-day breakfast. Hot food available from 11am-3pm and 6-9pm. Prices range between 3 to 10€. There is a weekly culinary theme e.g. Arabic. Has wi-fi. Previously reported to be all veg but no longer, Oct 2012. Price: Inexpensive more-less
Vegan-friendly, Lacto, Organic, German, Western, International, Beer/Wine, Non-veg
Mareschstr 14 (near S-Sonnenallee)
Berlin, Germany 12055
0176-70020009

Open Mon-Sun 8am-10pm.

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  • Outdoor seating
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First Review by wildfang
mumintroll
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  • mostly-vegetarian

Dropped in while in Berlin for business

4 Posted on 09 / 25 / 2012

Stayed at a nearby hotel for some business, and after a full day of, after all, somewhat generic hotel food, I ventured outside the hotel complex for fresh air and a relaxing place that offered vegetarian food. Little Buddha was the most proximate place, and I had a very peaceful, yummy dinner there. My choice was their cabage curry, which was delicious, and their grain coffee, which came with just the right strengt and tardiness. The place is cushy and I spend some time after the meal, sipping on my coffee and reading about metalogics. In essence, I had a perfect time there. If you look for a simple place offering good food and a relaxing atmosphere, you should definitely give Der kleine Buddha a try.
Updated from previous review on Tuesday September 25, 2012

Pros: Yummy food, Relaxing food, Adjoined store
CantGetEnough
CantGetEnough
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  • vegan

der kleine buddha

2 Posted on 03 / 31 / 2012

If you have any interest in supporting businesses with a Buddhist, enlightened agenda I would highly suggest you seek elsewhere. While I can't figure out exactly what is going on behind the scenes of this establishment, I think it has nothing to do with what its name suggests.

I'm allergic to milk and can't eat gluten and therefore frequent this place for bread and the like since there are no other shops nearby offering as wide a selection of Bio goods. However, I always hate entering this shop since the staff - particularly the owners - are some of the coldest, most unfriendly people I have encountered in Berlin. All the Tibetan flags and Buddhist paraphernalia adorning the place could never compensate for the personalities of the staff which are more reminiscent of Fascism than anything Buddhism espouses. But, as I said, my allergies trumped social preferences and I continued to frequent this establishment for over 2 years.

This has finally come to an end today after visiting a friend who was having a birthday party for his 4 year old. They planned a nice garden party but due to the rain they had to move it inside and simply didn't have enough chairs. My friend, who lives in the same building as a cafe called Greenstuff - which has the same owners as 'Little Buddha' - said he would ask them if he could borrow a few chairs for a few hours. They have about 40 metal folding chairs which are chained up outside the cafe, never used or even unfolded, and never even brought inside the cafe at night, apparently just waiting until business starts booming and they'll finally be needed. My friend frequents this cafe, often buys his child ice cream there and said the owners would certainly recognize him and lend him a few of their unused chairs. I was skeptical based on my knowledge of these owners and their utter lack of generosity or any semblence of kindness or warmth.

To make a short story even shorter, my friend went to 'Little Buddha', spoke to the female owner who was there and indeed recognized him and explained her his predicament. She said she wouldn't help him. He offered to leave a 200 Euro deposit and pay whatever fee she wanted for rental just to not destroy his little child's birthday party. She again said that she wouldn't help him. When he asked why not, she simply said that "it's not what we do." Remember, we're talking about cheap metal folding chairs which are never used, and would be returned after

Pros: Feature Vegan
wildfang
wildfang
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  • vegan

Der kleine Buddha

3 Posted on 05 / 03 / 2011

Der kleine Buddha is a nice café and organic food shop situated in an area of Berlin where it's still hard to find vegan and vegatrian options, so it's defnitely worth a visit. They have a daily changing menu which when we were there consisted of different curries (pepper, aubergine...) and soups (onion, beetroot...). A soup cost 3,6€, a curry was 7,9€ - not very cheap but you have to consider it's all organic and prepared fresh.
We ordered the onion soup and the aubergine curry which came with a tasty salad and basmati rice and was tasty and filling. The soup was good as well.
Our hot chocolate with soya milk was diasppointing, though - it basically tasted of hot milk, hardly any chocolate in there at all - and with so little taste quite pricy for 3€. And here again: Why do I get punished for being vegan and have to pay an extra 20 cents for soya milk instead of cow's milk? Dear owners: Please stop discriminating people who have chosen to do something good for the animals and the planet by cutting out dairy from their diet. Thanks.

The place is quite cosy with old stylish sofas to sit on.
I also found vegan Schweineohren (heart-shaped puff pastry; tips dipped in chocolate) at their bakery - something you hardly ever find anywhere, which made me totally happy. If I'm in the area, I will visit little Buddha again.

Pros: all organic, friendly staff, opening hours
Cons: extra charge for soya milk, bland hot chocolate

 

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Last updated: 2013/02/18

 

Added: 2011/04/22

 

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