Berlin is the beating heart of plant-based eating in Europe. Everything from Michelin-starred fine dining to corner bakeries accounts for the city’s estimated 80,000 vegans in a country with reportedly 8.1 million vegetarians. In most cities worldwide, vegans and vegetarians have to look up restaurants that cater exclusively to them. Not so in Berlin, where you’d be hard-pressed to find a menu that doesn’t have something delicious for meat-free diners. That said, you certainly can find a plethora of vegan restaurants and bakeries in case you would rather take the guesswork out of the equation.
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Generally speaking, there are two Berlins, and I’m not referring to the scars left by the infamous Berlin Wall. One Berlin lies inside “the ring”—or the Ringbahn, a train that wraps itself around the city in the shape of a dog’s head—and the…