Habba Habba — Restaurant in Berlin

Pre-pandemic I ate here on the recommendation of the Lonely Planet guide, and the food was delicious and fresh. The ambiance is stark, with a few seats inside a dark interior and a couple of wooden benches and tables outside. But one goes there for the food, not the ambiance.

This year, I patronized Habba Habba briefly again and had a very negative experience. My daughter and I were heading to a store nearby in Prenzlauer Berg after a long trip from Schöneberg that was diverted due to the Christopher Street parade. She was thirsty, so I brought her to Habba Habba since I knew it from before. I purchased her a €2.50 bottle of water with a €20 note. The man behind the counter gave me a €10 note and a few coins: a €0.50, a €2 coin, and what looked like a €2 coin, only with a "5" on it. The rest of the lettering was rather worn, so very hard to read in the low light inside. I said to my daughter, "I didn't know there were €5 coins" and almost asked the man about it, but she really wanted to move on to our destination. I put the coin away.

Imagine my surprise yesterday when I tried to pay part of my ticket for the Neue Nationalgalerie with the €5 coin only to have the woman at the ticket counter say that the coin was not a € coin! I took the attached images and ran them through Google, and it turns out the man at Habba Habba gave me a coin worth 5 Moroccan Dirham - currently valued at only US $0.51!! So Habba Habba cheated me out of €5! Not a pleasant experience. Despite the food being tasty, I will never go back there. I recommend that if you do go, you count your change carefully - twice. What a...

It started very well with friendly service even cleaning the wet terrace table and chairs for us in order to sit outside but onwards everything went downhill. Our order was forgotten and took over half an hour although there was not many people there. We were asked twice "what have your ordered". I ordered my wrap without coriander and came, of course, full of coriander. The quality of the falafel was really not accurate for the ratings they have. Apart from that one of the cooks just came outside for a rest, sat next to us in another table and started smoking while we were eating... sorry but not...

I used to go here couple years ago. Their wraps were great.

However, in my last trip to Berlin I had the coriander halloumi salad to go and it was very disappointing. Bland taste and expensive (12.5€). It had hardly any coriander or spices. It comes with four pieces of halloumi, yogurt based sauce and basic salad (lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber), some potatoes (apparently the frozen cube ones), and a few nuts. I could not finish it. No forks or tissue were packed in, or offered.

Hit-or-miss place, hence the 2 stars. Service quality differs from customer to customer. Only...