A smoke-filled, black and white tiled, wooden sports bar focussing on pub sports has disappeared. Rising from its ashes - modern, stylish, non-smoking, healthy, upbeat and unusually friendly - 'Goldapfel', scion of the organic movement, is a renewed and changed place for connoissieurs and those who'd want to be.
A fresh prenzlauer-bergian breeze sweeps through the giant vertical sliding-windows, leaving some with wistful memories of fixed glazing elegantly framed by plastic...
Is this the end of an era of dingy, 'Kindl'-serving corner pubs? Are we to be blamed?
We will plead 'no contest' before court anytime...
