Curry 36

Ah, Currywurst: the most famous of all Berlin dishes, though it usually isn’t even served on a dish. It’s basically a sausage chopped up into bite sized pieces, drowned in a ketchupy curry sauce, doused in curry powder and served with a side of fries on a rectangular paper plate.

Curry 36 is, besides Konnopke at Eberswalder Straße, one of the most packed locales specializing in this Berliner mainstay, where you eat your wurst alongside suit-wearing lawyers and the working class clad in coveralls, tourists and locals. The wurst-ladies are prime examples of Berlin service: quick and rough. So have your order down while you wait in line, not when you’re suddenly face to face and they’re waiting for you to make up your mind. Currywurst is, above all, quick—so help keep it that way. After all, you wouldn’t want to keep big Klaus waiting in anticipation behind you.

While currywurst makes for a good snack any time of day, it’s definitely a key element to getting your late night grease fix, capable of clearing up the toughest of oncoming hangovers.