Month: December 2010
Berlin: KaDeWe – Gourmet Bouillabaisse
On my last day in Berlin, it was raining and the wind harsh. Stay indoors was the advice offered by the hotel concierge. KaDeWe (Kaufhaus des Westens) is the second largest department store in Europe, after Harrods in London. But the food hall on the sixth floor, in my opinion, is bigger and better than…
Berlin: private cabaret in a museum
On the last evening of the meeting, the company organized a gala dinner at the Museum of Communications (Museum für Kommunikation Berlin at Leipziger Straße 16). The museum is beautiful but the content is really suitable for family with children. We had the whole museum to ourselves. We roamed leisurely champagne in hand, explored and…
Berlin: Dinner atop the German parliament building
We had a private group dinner at a dining room/restaurant (“Dachgarten”) on the roof of the Deutschen Bundestag (German parliament building, formerly known as the Reichstag). The location is truly unique; while the food is carefully prepared, it was not that special. The original Reichstag building was built in 1890s, disused just before World War…
Berlin: Grand Hyatt hall lights
Beside its “opulent minimalism“, another interesting thing about the Berlin Grand Hyatt is the way it provides dimmed lighting to the halls and corridors on the guest floors. Instead of wall sconces, the light fixtures are made of a thin vertical strip of glass printed with a black and white photographic image. Each is lit…