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Fra Rosa is one of 3 branches of the Weinerei restaurant/café collective all located 100m apart from each other on Zionskirchplatz. It has that typically cosy and inviting Berlin DIY style, as if you had just walked into someone’s living room. Its’ eclectic mismatched furniture and random decorative accessories are all set against the backdrop of paint chipped walls with red toned fresco style murals depicting lascivious half dressed femme fatales – a knowing nod to Toulouse-Lautrec style illustrations.
I have to be honest when I was first introduced to the Weinerei I was a bit sceptical, especially the whole concept they present of renting your wine glass for the evening for 2 euros and drinking to your hearts content. This made me ask the natural question ‘what’s the catch’? Well after many visits I can safely say there isn’t any; you rent your glass and at the end of the evening it’s up to you to bestow upon the establishment and staff a fitting contribution at your own discretion. Needless to say failure to do so is a mortal sin and social faux pas!
It is not only wine that is on offer, there is a fixed lunch and an evening three-course menu available everyday, and I have to say it’s pretty decent. Brazilian Head chef Hugo de Carvalho describes his style of food as ‘con-fusion’ cooking
Sit down, rent a glass and keep the vino flowing…Prost!
“Come, thou monarch of the vine, Plumpy Bacchus with pink eye.” William Shakespeare
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Weinerei | Bars, Coffee & tea, Snacks, Restaurants (Fusion) | Glass rental € 2.00
Zionskirchstr. 40 | Prenzlauer Berg | +4917628209047
12:00 – 16:00 & 20:00 – till late daily
We visited Fra Rosa in May this year after reading about it on spotted by locals. We were having a lovely time drinking wine when after about an hour we were asked to move from our table because a couple had arrived who wanted to eat. We were put at a table in a corner away from all the atmosphere where nobody else wanted to sit. The waitress was very sweet and I think she felt embarrassed about it as she apologised and offered us some bread but we didn’t stay after that.