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Koenigsberger Klopse is a signature dish of Germany; we have verified places to eat it in Berlin. Start with where to eat Koenigsberger Klopse in Berlin.
Koenigsberger Klopse are East-Prussian veal-and-anchovy meatballs poached in a caper-cream sauce; the dish travelled to Berlin with refugees in 1945 and stays on every Berlin tavern carte.
Koenigsberger Klopse originated in 18th-century Koenigsberg (now Kaliningrad) as a refined version of the German Klops meatball, distinguished by chopped anchovy in the mince and capers in the white sauce. When East Prussia was lost to the Soviet Union in 1945, Koenigsberg refugees brought the dish to West Berlin and West Germany. By the 1960s, Klopse had become a Berlin tavern standard. In the GDR, the dish appeared on HO-Gaststaetten menus under the politically scrubbed name Kochkloesse. After 1990, the original name returned. Max und Moritz on Oranienstrasse has cooked the dish unchanged since 1902; the boiled-potato side is non-negotiable.
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Where to eat Koenigsberger Klopse in Berlin: the editor picks
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