White Trash Fast Food (WTFF) - Berlin

The full name of the place is 'White Trash Fast Food', abbreviated 'WTFF', although it's not a fast food restaurant. You know how Europe is full of these 'American' restaurants that try to be a cross between a TGI Fridays and a 50s diner (e.g., The Sixties on Oranienburger Straße) and end up being completely kitschy and generally failing to make any authentic imitation of food available in the States? Well, WTFF takes that concept and skewers it with an in-your-face punk attitude. So you get waitresses in saddle shoes and mini-skirts who look like they might kick your ass. And the place brews its own beers with names like 'Dirty Fucking Weizen'. There's usually good music playing on the weekends for a single-digit cover, often different bands upstairs and downstairs (in the

White Trash have opened a summer beach bar on the Spree next to Bar 25. on Holtzmarkt Straße near Jannowitz brüke train station (U bahn) It is set up like a Wild West Theme complete with camels, ponys, sand, and of course very cool bar staff. You should definately check it out. Its called STRAND MARKT Here is the website: www.strandmarkt.de/

totally lame atmosphere, clientile, and staff. This place is full of losers who are about 10 years out of trend (which describes Prenzelberg to a "T"). Lame, Less for More, cliche, brash all describe this horrid venue. Save yourself the trouble, dont fall for the tourist trap.

When Wally moved this place from Torstr. I thought it was the end. But I was pleasantly surprised. I'm disappointed the mezzanine bar is now booths but I totally dig the mix of tourists, locals and would-be rock stars. The burgers are good (though they're better at The Bird) and there's tons and tons of live music, which makes all the goofy tourists head for the door. Another plus: Motorhead's Lemy replaced Ben Becker as a regular.

having previously eaten here and enjoyed the bands downstairs, 4 of us went to WTFF last thurs night about 9pm...we'd had food so were after some beers and a band. EURO1- to get in = not a prob. however, to our disappointment, we were not allowed to sit at any table, as we didn't want to order full meals = big prob! approx 50% of tables in the place were empty. hence, after a waiter slammed his fist on the table shouting 'this is a BUSINESS' (meaning, our beer money was no good) we finished our single round of beers standing at the crowded bar, and went and spent many hours of drinking money elsewhere. what a disappointment. I can understand it if it was busy, but come on..

White Trash is pretty average in every respect as far as I'm concerned. I tried this place as I was told I was guaranteed a great burger, and cool atmosphere. Ihave to admit that I felt pretty let down. But for those who dont want to make the same mistake, I'd advise them to head to 'The Bird'. Its not as central as WTFF, but the food is fantastic and the beer is also very good. The place may be quite small, but it has a good atmosphere and you're never made to feel like you should be ordering more if its just a few beers you're after.

I agree with most of the posts. The place is unique with a mix of berliners, german and other tourists.. young and old. Foods quite good upstairs and the soundsystem downstair is excellent. We're looking forward to the Chicago East Party on June 13th and July 11th at White Trash. Chicago Rose www.chicagorose.de

What's with all these rave reviews of The Bird? My 11 euro cheeseburger (11 fucking euros for a burger?) fell apart like a big meaty cow pie when I lifted it -- instead of a burger I had a big pile of ground beef dumped on my fries. Who cares how "quality" the beef is when the burger is such a big shitty disappointment? And the guys who run the joint offer the lamest excuse --"we can't decent buns in Berlin." So they sell these meatballs on a hockey puck "toastie" and call them burgers. Well, they can sell these jokes to Germans, tourists, and sucker Yuppie homesick Americans, but I've eaten about a million burgers, from Maine to California, and have never been so ripped off in my life. Yeah, the fries might have been good, but because they were covered with what shoulda been my burger, I didn't enjoy them. My suggestion for The Bird dudes -- try harder to find an alternative to lame English muffins. Hip arrogance and an outrageous price is no substitute for a decent bun.

"Hip arrogance and an outrageous price is no substitute for a decent bun." Truer words were never spoken. A plus about tight pants is that they hinder sperm production. Maybe we can prevent the hipster mentality from reproducing.