The dream of every food lover and restaurant critic is, to discover, rate & report a hidden jewel nobody found so far – like a needle in the hay.

But the ÖSTERELLI may come close. Almost invisible from the outside – and if you managed to find and enter it, it still looks like the understatement of the year: a small unspectacular café-ish eatery. And the kitchen seems to be the tiniest I ever saw. So I was more than skeptical.

Then the first surprise: a utterly friendly and efficient service, managing not just the guests but the delivery bikers as well. Grand Chapeau!

But still a bit skeptical. So many Schnitzel out of that tiny kitchen???

But then the WOW OF ALL WOWS: really awesome quality!  Österelli has a much larger & nicer restaurant in POTSDAM – but I really love this UNDERSTATEMENT!