Kartoffelpuffer appears as a signature dish in 1 Germany cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Kartoffelpuffer mit Apfelmus · Berlin
Crisp shredded-potato pancakes fried in plenty of fat, eaten with a heavy dollop of cold apple compote and a glass of beer. The Berlin Christmas-market and Kneipe staple.
Kartoffelpuffer (also reibekuchen in the Rhineland) is a German potato-pancake tradition centuries old, but Berlin's particular Imbiss-window and Christmas-market version is what most visitors taste: a shredded-potato cake with a tight light crust, served from a steel hatch with apple compote in a paper boat. Konnopke's Imbiss under the Eberswalder S-Bahn, Max und Moritz on Oranienstrasse, and Zum Schusterjungen in Prenzlauer Berg all serve the canonical Kneipe version.
Where to eat in Berlin:
- Konnopke's Imbiss
- Max und Moritz
- Zum Schusterjungen