TERRA — Restaurant in Berlin

I want to tell you about @terra_italiancraftkitchen - a very delicious restaurant with craft Italian cuisine , a place with its own philosophy and unique atmosphere! 6 years ago, Sylvia opened the door of restaurant, but it took some time for evolution to make the project the way Berliners know and love it. Terra use maximum of local products, cooperates with craft manufacturers from Berlin, Hamburg, there is always its own 100% organic herbs. Well, if olive oil, then only from Silvia's family production from Calabria. I recommend you to start the evening with an aperitivo: Order a bruschetta with sourdough bread, with yellow tomato sauce (from Vesuvius) with homemade pesto and sun-dried tomatoes (this is pure gastroorgasm), Sicilian chickpea panelle, pickled olives + incredible cocktail based on sparkling wine and bergamot liqueur❤❤❤ Also you have to try homemade pasta fresco ( including gluten-free options), for example tender purple potato gnocchi stuffed with chili and peccorino with sage sauce or fantastic rigatoni (made from hemp flour) with chili, olives, tomatoes and stracatella cheese "Must have" is the perfect sourdough pizza! I tried the vegan option with almonds ricotta and seasonal vegetables (it was the best vegan pizza I've tried) Well, for dessert, be sure to enjoy tiramisu with crispy coffee crumbles, this is something special! @happyfood_travel highly recommends Terra Restaurant for exploring craft Italian kitchen! Terra - food born in Kreuzberg! . . Хочу рассказать вам об очень вкусном ресторане крафтовой итальянской кухни Terra, место со своей философией и уникальной атмосферой! 6 лет назад Сильвия открыла дверь своего ресторана, Но понадобилось некоторое время на эволюцию чтобы проект был таким каким его знают и любят берлинцы. Terra максимально использует локальные продукты, сотрудничает с крафтовыми производителями Берлина, Габрурга, тут всегда своя 100% органик зелень, Ну а если оливковое масло, то только семейного производства из Калабрии. Советую начать вечер с аперетива: Закажите брускетту с заквасочным хлебом, с соусом из желтых томатов(с Везувия) с домашним песто и вялеными томатами(это гастрооргазм в чистом виде), сицилицские panelle из нутовой муки, маринованные оливки вместе с коктейлем на основе игристого вина и ликера из бергамота❤❤❤ Также попробуйте домашнюю пасту(тут готовят пасту fresco, в том числе и безглютеновую), например нежные ньокки из пурпурного картофеля с начинкой из чили и пеккорино с соусом из шалфея или невероятные ригатони( из конопляной муки) с чили, оливками, томатами и сыром страчателло Must have это идеальная пицца на закваска из Калабрии! Я попробовал веган вариант с открытой из миндаля и сезонными овощами(лучшая веган пицца которую я пробовал) Ну а на десерт обязательно насладитесь тирамису с хрустящей кофейной крошкой, это нечто особенное! @happyfood_travel настоятельно рекомендует ресторан Terra для знакомства с крафтовой итальянской кухней! Terra - еда рожденная...

I visited this place in occasion of the italian food festival. They offered a fixed "menu" consisting of bruschetta and wine. We waited 1.5 hours for the bruschetta, people arrived after us got served before even though we were waiting just for a bruschetta. If I'd run a café and for some reason the kitchen is busy and slow I used to send out exactly a bruschetta to let them wait with some food....instead these guys gently offered us 6 olives. Literally 6! The wine: I understand that this kind of festival can be not so good for the business BUT if you take part you have to be decent. I honestly think that my wine (sold as Chianti if remember properly) was mixed with water. And that's so terribly bad. Italians know there's a famous traditional song even about this "practice". After consuming the "bruschetta" or pane e salame (actually not bad) we go to pay and unluckily we can't pay by card and of course they didn't offer any discount for our "wonderful" experience. So we pay cash AND you guess....no bill. I am italian and this disappoints me so much!!! Just pay the taxes! Location is nice, food (I guess...just tried a bruschetta) also....BUT the rest...... I hope you'll manage to get back on a good track. Buy a good salame is not hard, build a good business is something more 😉

Answer of the owner:

Hello there,

I don't know what kind of business you had run in your life and where, but I can see from your account you have not been traveling that much outside of the Italian countryside; maybe you didn't know that Here in Berlin we tip on iPads and email bills; we believe in not wasting paper and orderbird is our partner .

If you really need your 7 Euro bill provide me please with day and time of your visit, and I´ll email you that bill straight ahead .

Moreover I ask you to delete/change your unconsidered review... if you are sure of your statement though you don't have to. What you might have to do instead, as a REAL business MAN, is to share with a me your full name and address so that you'll soon get post from me Mr. Pomodoro.

PS: we do mix wine & water and this is called WEINSCHORLE in Germany.

tanti saluti

My reply:

11.05.2022

You qualified yourself! I am sad for your poor way to express your...

Literally, the most terrible Pizza place I've been so far in Berlin. One thing is that the waiter forgot our order. He let us wait for an hour while repeatedly assuring us that the pizza going to be ready in 10 minutes, that it's in the making, that's it's basically ready, and so on. After some 40 minutes of back and forth (during which other clients who have been arriving much later were served) we started to ask for our money back, which took another 20 minutes. The other thing is the service. Yes, you can forget an order, that happens. But if it does, please please, be polite, say sorry and look that the order is now taken care of. Yet, our waiter didn't seem to care much about providing good costumer service. He had no idea that or what we ordered. He kept forgetting us and got increasingly annoyed when being reminded that (and indeed what we ordered). None of the other staff wanted to step in and take over responsibility. Long story, short in the end, we were told that this is Berlin and not a five star restaurant. Well, both true, but there are actually many nice Pizza places, with delicious and great Pizza in the city, so really no need to ever...