Lange's Imbiss

Lange's Imbiss at the corner of Berliner Straße and Holzhauser Straße in Tegel is the cheapest address on this list: The currywurst costs 3.10 Euros, the fries 2.50 Euros. Additionally, there's a full breakfast assortment with minced pork and scraped meat rolls, and changing home-style dishes like pork hock with sauerkraut or Königsberger Klopse.

The Cheapest Currywurst on the List

In Tegel, at the corner of Berliner Straße and Holzhauser Straße, stands a snack bar that doesn’t tell a grand story but has simply been serving its purpose for over forty years. Lange’s Imbiss is run by Carsten Lange, and the price is the first argument: the currywurst costs 3.10 Euros, regardless of whether it’s with or without casing, and the fries are 2.50 Euros. Both together remain significantly below what is demanded for the sausage alone in the city center, and even the coffee is in the range of a single Euro. The “Boulette” (meatball) is homemade, and there are potato and noodle salads by portion, both freshly made instead of bought. Anyone working in Tegel comes here for lunch without having to drive anywhere, and that explains the loyal customer base better than any advertising. The business does not list a legal form in its impressum; it simply states the owner’s name, and apparently, nothing more is needed at this corner.

Breakfast, Pork Hock and Königsberger Klopse

Lange’s Imbiss is not a pure currywurst stand, which makes it a special case in this selection. For breakfast, there is a full assortment of minced pork, scraped meat, and pollock rolls, plus changing home-style dishes: pork hock with sauerkraut, Königsberger Klopse, and whatever else the kitchen has prepared. The most ordered dishes are schnitzel, currywurst, spaghetti bolognese, and meat skewers, a sequence that accurately describes why people from the neighborhood come here. The snack bar is thus more like a small canteen for northern Reinickendorf than a currywurst stand in the narrower sense, and that is precisely its strength. The Holzhauser Straße U-Bahn station (U6) is about fifty meters away, and bus lines 133 and X33 also stop nearby. The business does not state a founding year, but it has been over forty years in any case. Anyone changing trains in Tegel or heading to the former airport grounds can pass by without a detour. For the north of Berlin, this is the address with the best price-to-portion ratio.