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exploring taste – Spring/Summer 2016
rom the district of Tiergarten, to reach any part of Leaving the city center which is largely ignored by the locals,
the city you have to travel along the tree-lined Unter we reach Alexanderplatz. Even the most die-hard sentimental
F den Linden. It is worth taking time to visit the more would find it hard not to be disappointed: the trams speed
‘institutional’ Berlin of the Gendarmenmarkt, where for once through the pedestrian pathways, the square is framed on all
the taxi’s queuing to wait for the crowds exiting the prestigious sides by enormous shopping malls, the Urania Weltzeituhr,
Konzerthaus and not some club in Friedrichshain. It is a Berlin’s world time clock, now looks like a tiny merry-go-
chance to stop and have dinner at Lutter & Wegner: sublime round in comparison. But if you coast along the super-elevated
French-Prussian dishes in a setting that reminds one of the S-Bahn, north-bound, you reach a shopping area that is much
Great Gatsby, had he been German. more civilized. Hackeschermarkt is recognizable for its red-
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