For the cover of this menu, we meet with Mical Rosenblat and Karl-Louis Kömmler, whose restaurant Loumi has just received a Michelin star. Three and a half years ago, Loumi was nothing more than a spectacularly good - and spectacularly well-hidden - supper club in an old apartment on Sonnenallee. We love stories like this in Berlin. From the curb to the skyline. Or from a Birra sandwich to an Omakase menu. And that's how Berlin eats. Sometimes at a street food stand, sometimes in plush armchairs. Sometimes by hand, sometimes from KPM porcelain. For example, Vadim Otto Ursus Henselder has now added the wine bar Pluto to his wonderful product kitchen restaurant Otto, which is intentionally designed to function as a pub as well. And curator Leonie Herweg has revived the legendary Café Tiergarten in the summer of 2025 as a place for the whole city to meet. Because a cup of coffee, according to her thesis, makes possible what art may not always achieve. Accessibility and participation are what it's all about. And looking beyond one's own plate. The fact that even the good and very good new restaurants no longer present fine dining as an exclusive pleasure fits this time. Some plates may have become simpler, but this world is complicated enough already.