Café Restaurant La Mamma — Restaurant in Berlin

nice place to sit in the sun and waiter really tried to provide good service, but pretty much everything else was poor :( Our starters: asparagus cream soups were more of lemon soups (+ my first serving of it was in a dirty bowl heavily stained from a previous red dish) and had a few small hard pieces and a lemon stone in it. My wirs garlic gnocci (as main) were not in a pesto-cream sauce as described, but rather in a roux with some green pieces (tastes like premade microwave sauce, although gnocci itself were good). My partner did not like his lamb rague either (almost no meat and also did not taste homemade). Moreover everything took forever: the soups came first together with the main courses (weird but no big deal), which we wanted to get back a little later, so we could eat the soups first. But then it took over 45 minutes (and several reminders) to get the main courses back (I strongly assume it were the same portions due to some single reheated looking arugula leaves under some fresh arugula). It then also took a super long time to get the bill. People around us also made faces, because everything was so super slow. So unfortunately, it was very nice to sit there while the sun set, but we will definatly not go...

I came alone for a late lunch at about 3.30. I was the only customer there, and there were three or four staff. They saw me sitting at a table, but just chatted to each other, cleaned glasses and generally got on with their lives. They didn't even bring me a menu.

I felt like I didn't exist and so left after a few minutes. I've been here before and always feel like I have to get over this incredibly unwelcoming service in order to enjoy the good food and the (otherwise) nice atmosphere. I feel too angry to go back there now, which is a shame.

I just don't understand why they're like that. Perhaps I smell very bad or shout racist abuse without...

A home away from home.

Nora is an absolute gem! This place is a rare find in Berlin, as in its Super Personable, hands on, and friendly to the degree that you feel at home as soon as you sit down.

From when Nora came to our table with the menu, to the moment four hours later where we left with a hug, I knew I’d found a special rare find in this city.

Great food, amazing service, but above all else, a hospitality you can only find in a moms kitchen.

Whether that mom happens to be Italian, Irish, Kosovian, Canadian, German or otherwise.. nobody does it better than Norma.

Thank you Bella! We’ll be back, and we’ll be bring...