Schwarzenraben

Frommer's Review

"Black Crows" (its English name) evokes a SoHo-style restaurant in New York. This is the watering hole of the Berlin schickeria, or chic crowd. One Berlin paper defined these trendies as "media honchos and their overblond dates." The see-and-be-seen scene might be more important than the cuisine, but two Italian brothers, Ivo and Rudolf Girolo, succeed admirably with superfresh ingredients that are well prepared. Sea bass is baked between slices of eggplant, and it's a most credible dish, as is the Italian gnocchi with sausage and green olives. Remarkably, the kitchen is prepared to make on short notice some 300 pasta dishes. Our dining companion for the evening hailed the gnocchi with rabbit ragout and truffles as "orgasmic." We're fond of the duck and rabbit pastele. The main dining room is upstairs; downstairs is for whiskey and cigars.

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