Curry 36

Name: Curry 36
Address: Mehringdamm 36, 10961 Berlin, Berlin, DE
Price range: $
Rating: 4.2

Berlin, Germany

Curry 36 is a Berlin Currywurst institution with locations across the city, the most famous being the stand at Mehringdamm U-Bahn station in Kreuzberg. Open since 1981, it operates from a counter window with no seating, and the queue at peak hours runs down the pavement. The currywurst is made with a pork sausage fried in fat until the skin crisps, then sliced and covered in the house curry-ketchup sauce, which is a warmed spiced tomato base finished with curry powder. A portion comes with a wooden fork and optionally with a bread roll. Curry 36 is not the oldest currywurst stand in Berlin but it is the most visited, and for many visitors it is the first and only currywurst they will eat in the city.

Click to activate map

Sausages served here

Currywurst

Berlin, Germany

Currywurst is Berlin's most consumed street food: a steamed and pan-fried pork sausage, sliced into rounds, blanketed in a curried tomato ketchup sauce, and dusted with curry powder. It is sold at Imbiss stands across Germany, but Berlin claims it as its own invention. The sauce is the point. The sausage is a delivery mechanism for the sweet, spiced, faintly vinegary tomato base that Herta Heuwer developed in 1949 at her stand on Stuttgarter Platz in Charlottenburg. Germans eat roughly 800 million currywursts per year, and Berlin alone accounts for about 70 million of those. Two versions divide the city: mit Darm (with casing, which gives a snap on the bite) and ohne Darm (without casing, softer and finer-textured). Most East Berliners default to ohne Darm; in the West, mit Darm is the classic choice. Both come on a paper plate with a small plastic fork and, almost always, a side of Pommes frites or a Brötchen.

porkBerlinstreet-food

Curry 36

Sausages served here

Currywurst

Reviews