Lovis Restaurant — Restaurant in Berlin

Two great aspects to point out: cool location in an old backyard building not easy to find (hint: use the door bell to get past the iron gate at the walkway back to the courtyard, then head to the end and there is a small bar waiting for you and the door is on your left). They have a cool interior design with a room that resembles more a nature aquarium as well as high ceilings. Second just great quality food and nice - quite berlin style - service.

This is a Michelin tracked place - so expect a 6 course tasting menu for 99 euros or a reduced one with 4 courses for 79 euro - certainly with optional wine pairing on top - and, really nice …. you can also chose from a á la carte menue of you want to chose your own feast. And there is a vegetarian tasting menu version as well.

We went for the six course menue and had two glases of champagne as a welcome drink and a surprising white and red wine.

Service is rather fast for an upmarket restaurant and efficient - so if you want to have a relaxing evening you need to tell the waiter.

After the Amuse Bouches the asparagus carpaccio took us by surprise - a great sweet-sour setting which brings all flavors out of the picked rhubarb and the asparagus.

The lettuce Taco had a beautiful texture with a light but spicy crisp sauce - in the wine pairing with a German Chardonnay a great combination with the sorrel and the shiitake mushrooms.

Leek millefeuille with seaweed - normally you would not fancy a piece of leek on the plate but in combination with special citron/lemon “caviar” drops and the coriander just perfect dish to keep you going.

The chilled pea soup needed the chorizo as great balance together with cilantro that levels the bridge to the previous dishes - and you realize latest here that there is a “common theme” through the entire menue … not only regionally / locally sourced in residents but we found the sour texture as a common denominator at our evening.

The local pork ribs were so soft and tender that they fell off the bones by just looking at them :) - and again the sour tonality comes by with tamarind pieces that trickle your tongue and a cream of corn that buffers it all. Intriguing the few corn pop corns that allow for the extra

Their interpretation of a cheese cake was clearly deconstructed and a great thai basilicum sorbet helped to close the great menu.

So indeed 5 stars. Expect roughly 150 euro per person for a...

This is a lovely space, and it all augers well for a stunning experience. The veggie menu is more tempting than free bitcoin. It really shines. There are highlights and technical flaws that can't be ignored. The amuse is a tasty and well executed start, as is the bread. And the first course gets us away to high hopes. The veggie bundle is treated as well as a prize pet, and the cold broth is about as perfect as you could want. Local produce is the promise, and we are in a mushroom area...do they grow shiitake here? I'll give the benefit of the doubt, but even so, they're not typical of the area. The lettuce taco that blankets them neither wows nor disappoints. The wonderfully executed intermezzo nettle sorbet and foam are pretty perfect, but divide two major let downs. Miso eggplant may be as ubiquitous as, well, miso eggplant, but it's a tricky dish to master. Here, the eggplant has a coarse and lacklustre miso, that ain't no glaze. Caramelisation is everything to this element, and it's left the building. The eggplant demands to be fluffy, and this is as deflated as my expectations. The associates on the plate do nothing to resuscitate. On the other side of the yummy sorbet, the main course chick pea fritters are almost Operatically tragic. The batons of chick pea are unevenly crisp/soft and have no hint of complexity. To be fair, there's plenty of that in the credible ketchup made in house. But the whole thing sits around like it doesn't know if it's supposed to be waiting for a protein on the plate, or simply be a bar snack. At this level, sorry, these two are not acceptable. The tart Tatin dessert is unspeakable. It's fine to remake one of the world's great desserts, as long as you, as the original does, hero the apples and the pastry and the caramel. Here, the apple, smack bang in season here, are minimal and lost in a haze of cold ice cream. The pastry is now played by a simple, maternal crumble, and the caramel is blonder than Nico in 1982. The petit fours are a decent butter cake rectangle and a subpar (texture, freshness, and finish), though flavourful macaron. Service is pretty good, and the glass Riesling terrific. I also happen to find paying for limited quantity filtered water to be unnecessary when fine dining. You have a choice at this level. They need to sharpen...

Lovis is definitely one of the most romantic restaurants in Berlin, the perfect place to take a special person. The service was excellent and very friendly, and conspired with me to arrange a small surprise for my date. There is plenty of space for each table, giving you a sense of a private bubble just for the two of you. Lovis is located in a former women’s prison that has been very beautifully and intimately redesigned, with candlelight, lush greenery even in fall, and exposed brick. The atmosphere is the primary reason to visit at least once if you’re in Berlin.

Most of the dishes were delicious, but at this price point in fine dining, I would have expected a higher standard of quality and creativity. The tomato tartare was my favorite dish, outstanding and surprisingly citrusy with a variety of complex flavors and textures. However, the mushroom soup seemed like a straightforward and basic dish I could have prepared at home, and I’m skeptical the ingredients were local. The menu is largely vegetarian, and I would recommend sticking to vegetarian dishes since that is clearly the chef’s specialty. The meat dishes were underwhelming; both my steak and the accompanying sauce really lacked seasoning.

Overall the experience was still excellent and I will come again to experience the varying seasonal menus, but the price is more justified by the atmosphere...