Sahara Imbiss (Sudanese) — Restaurant in Berlin

SUDANESE DELIGHTS in BERLIN

Sahara Imbiss is the place-to-go for Sudanese comfort food. They have 8 locations in Berlin that serve the most representative dishes from the country’s cuisine 🇸🇩😋 They are so popular that they even have merchandise of their own

They claim to have the best falafel in Berlin… so that’s one more reason to try them if you haven’t yet and judge by yourself! 🧆

They offer a varied selection of dishes and bowls with your choice of protein: halloumi, tofu, kofta (meatballs), chicken, magali (fried vegetables)… 🍗🍛 and DON’T forget the peanut sauce! It will upgrade your meal by x10000 🥜

We ordered: 🥣Lentil Soup 🌯Chicken rollo plate 🍛Bamya (okra) with rice 🧀Sahara Bowl Spezial (halloumi) 🍗Grill Bowl (chicken) 🌱Vegan Bowl (tofu) 🍩Fritter dough in pistacchio, coconut and plain flavour

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I had the Sahara bowl (namesake to the store) and was pleasantly surprised by the experience. Sudanese food, somewhat different taste, unusual spices, vast variety of textures. In the huge sea of more of the same it's a delight to see spots like this operating. The atmosphere and entire getup feels very berlinized and authentic to the city with stickered walls and clearly different origin furniture, while keeping it's core ethnic identity.

The best bang for your buck is probably the sandwiches which my friend had. The platters feel a bit lackluster portion wise.

There's a wide variety of toppings and sauces that support many different dietary restrictions, however if you can't have peanuts then I'd feel sorry for you since Sudanese cuisine is a lot about that and they do...

tl;dr: this place used to be good. now it's consistently disappointing (and a hazard for my stomach.) there's a much better sudanese falafel 3 minutes away (Black Rhino on Kienitzer Str.)

It saddens me to write, because I used to eat here every other day and it's (conveniently) super close to my flat, but the quality has really dropped a lot, and the food is now consistently very disappointing to me. The food I got here was mostly far from fresh, peanut sauce was bland and my stomach always hurts quite a bit the next day. Even the best days here as not as good as at the Wildenbruchstraße Sahara (the best one) or the Weserstraße one (slightly less reliable, also busier.) I'd really recommend walking 3 minutes to Black Rhino, my savior when it comes to peanuty falafel in...