Ackselhaus & Blue Home

Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, Germany

Eating

Ackselhaus and Blue Home share Club del Mar as their breakfast venue. It offers a superb selection of cereals, yoghurts, fruits, fruit juices, jams, cold cuts, cheeses etc. I loved the different varieties of German dark bread and multigrain rolls. In addition, you can order cooked breakfast à la carte at extra cost. Everything is beautifully presented on a teak buffet table.

The room itself is bright and airy, with light filtering through large glass panels in the porch and a series of aquariums with tropical fish on the walls. A gilded mirror, a chandelier, a pair of bright fish paintings and a fireplace (lit in winter) create an atmopshere which is comfy and exotic at the same time. If the weather is nice, you can take breakfast outdoors on the wide pavements of Belforther Strasse, which is a reasonably quiet road.

Club del Mar does not currently offer other meals, except to groups (by arrangement), so for lunch and dinner you'll probably find yourself wandering down to nearby Kollwitzplatz, a Notting Hill-like square with a small park in the middle, lots of restaurants around, and a great Saturday market. Needless to say, there are some superb dining options in other parts of Berlin, representing all the major cuisines of the world.

How guests have rated the food:

Eating:
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Features include:

  • Bar
  • Walk to restaurants
  • Minibar
Save to favouritesPrintMailAckselhaus & Blue HomeThese twin hotels, one ochre and the other sky-blue, are just doors apart on a leafy road in the middle of Prenzlauer Berg. At first glance, both look like typical Gründerzeit tenement blocks, but step inside and you enter the eclectic, exotic world of Ulf Acksel, entrepreneur, globetrotter and self-confessed "Freigeist" (freethinker). Each of the [r:BE004:mini-apartments] in Ackselhaus looks like its own film set - packed with photos, paintings and furniture to evoke China, Venice, Rome etc. It's mesmerising stuff, but we couldn't help wondering if less may have been more. Blue Home, however, took our breath away with its other-worldly marine theme. Land-locked Berlin disappears as you enter an elaborate wooden portal, take in the pink-walled patio with its palm trees, decked ponds and flower-filled urns, all reflected in a gilded mirror, and peek through tropical fish tanks, as if underwater, into the neighbouring breakfast-café, [i!http://www.i-escape.com/hotel.php?section=eating&hotel_key=BE004!Club del Mar]. There even seems to be a whiff of marine oil in the staircase. [r:BE004:Inside] you'll find teak furniture, white floorboards, plant prints and birds reminiscent of Henri Rousseau. You could be on a vintage yacht or in a colonial abode. It feels far away and homely at the same time.

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