Suppengrün

Suppengrün on Inselstraße: changing soup menu since 2002

Hagen and Christiane Franke have been running the shop on Inselstraße since 2002. The menu is completely rewritten every week, and the range is impressive: from Berlin potato soup to Tom Kha Gai and Sancocho. In one week, you might find a Swiss vegetable soup with barley, parsley, and Emmental, a red beet chickpea soup with barberries, mint, and fresh figs, and a Laotian rice noodle soup with chicken, pak choi, and peanuts side-by-side. A small portion costs 9.50 Euro, a large one 13.50 Euro, and the soup of the day is 9.00 Euro. The shop is cozy, the counter is its center, and the blackboard shows what’s currently in the pot.

Bread from the rural baker, quiche from their own oven

The soup is served with bread from Herzberg in the Elbe-Elster region, sourdough wholemeal and hand-rolled baguettes. The quiches are baked in-house and also change regularly; with a side salad, they cost 8.50 Euro; additionally, there are French fruit tarts and homemade yogurt and quark desserts. Those who want to take soup home can opt for the jarred soups for 9.50 Euro, which keep for several weeks, such as Kabocha pumpkin soup, vegetable borscht, or Berlin lentil stew. For larger groups, the establishment delivers by bicycle courier, with a liter of soup costing 23.50 Euro for orders of three liters or more. Directly next door, Saftzeit has been part of the business since 2004, offering breakfast, coffee, and freshly squeezed juices.