Turkey, goose, duck: Where to get your Christmas bird in Berlin

Gans Einfach

‘Gans Einfach’, the Berlin pop-up service for festive roasts, is known for their extra tender, slow-roasted goose, delivered straight to your door. It serves four people and comes with all the trimmings – cabbage with smoked pork and bacon, potato dumplings, orange and mugwort sauce for €169. You’ll even be provided with a handy video tutorial on how to carve the bird. Gans Einfach also does a vegan Celery Christmas Roast, with chestnut jus, spiced red cabbage, mushroom cream, crispy breadcrumbs and potato dumplings for €75, serving two people.

Gans Einfach, Oberfeldstr. 189, Biesdorf, visit their online store here.

Golvet

Berlin Master Chef 2022 Jonas Zörner of Berlin’s Golvet has created a menu of high-quality birds served with apple-red cabbage, lard green cabbage, traditional Serviettenknödel and jus. The dishes just require a straight-forward 45 minute preparation at home and serve two to three people. Order and collect the feast for €99, or have it delivered for €109 euros. Just remember to order at least 24 hours in advance.

Golvet, Potsdamer Str. 58, Kreuzberg, visit their online store here.

Horváth

From 17 to 23 December, Horváth offers its “Duck for Dahoam” – steamed whole and paired with apple-red cabbage, bread dumplings, wild cranberries and glazed chestnuts. The entire three-course feast also includes celery foam soup with orange-thyme curd, and apple and nut strudel with vanilla sauce. For €300 it generously feeds 4 people. The kitchen just needs 48 hours’ notice for all variations.

Horváth, Paul-Lincke-Ufer 44a, Kreuzberg, visit their website here.

Jäger & Lustig

With the Traditional Christmas Goose To Go package from Jäger & Lustig, you’re getting a whole goose with green and red cabbage, roasted chestnuts, dumplings and gravy. The feast serves four people and includes a handy reheating guide. This one’s for collection only, with payment of €139 on site. For an extra €15 euros, you’ll take it all home in sustainable packaging material with microwaveable bowls and dishes. Just be sure to let the kitchen know 3 days in advance.

Jäger & Lustig, Grünberger Str. 1, Friedrichshain, visit their website here.

Theaterklause Potsdam

Theaterklause’s goose is stuffed with chestnuts and kumquats and accompanied by Thuringian dumplings, red cabbage and gravy. If you’ve got any room left, dessert is nougat with mandarin and gingerbread. The spread feeds four people and is only available for collection from the ‘Theaterklause’ restaurant. It’s in Potsdam, so we’d recommend making a day of it, and collecting your feast before you head back to Berlin. Just remember to make your order 3 days in advance.

Theaterklause, Zimmerstr. 10-11, Potsdam, visit their website here.

Café am Neuen See

Photo: Café am Neuen See

Café am Neuen See in Tiergarten offers a pick up service (work up your appetite with a winter stroll through the park). For €215, you can get your free-range goose with red cabbage, kale, baked apple, potato dumplings, caramelised chestnuts, jus (for 4 people) cooked, warm and ready to devour as soon as you get home. If you want to really impress your guests, for €389 you can get the whole package delivered and have one of the Café’s chefs come to your house and carve it for you.

Café am Neuen See, Lichtensteinallee 2, Tiergarten, visit their website here.

Gans wie bei Oma

Gans wie bei Oma uses only free-range birds from local farms for their festive roasts. For €119, their roast goose serves four, and for something a little smaller you can go for the roast duck (serving three) for €89. They come fully prepped and ready to throw into the oven. Side dishes can be ordered separately, so you can decide exactly what you’d like to pair with your bird. A hearty vegetarian option is available – a nut roast prepared according to a Saxon recipe (for €12 per portion) served with vegetarian gravy.

Gans wie bei Oma, collection at Spreespeicher, Stralauer Allee 2b, Friedrichshain or Hellweg in Biesdorf, Alt-Biesdorf 38 (depending on date), visit their website here.

Relish

‘Relish’’s dishes are prepared by the kitchen team for you to cook to perfection at home. Crispy braised goose with cabbage, dumplings, chestnuts and cranberries. For vegetarians – a nut roast with glazed chestnuts, Brussels sprouts, baked dumplings, savoy cabbage and carrot jus. Both are finished off with a baked apple crumble and curd mousse and paired with a bottle of red Cuvée.

Relish, The Westin Grand Friedrichstr. 158-164, Mitte, visit their website here.

Ganymed & Brechts

Ganymed Brasserie and Brechts Steakhaus join forces to prepare a six-person festive turkey with pumpkin-apple stuffing and side dishes for €140. If you’re in the mood for something more gamey, try their truffle guinea fowl for two people for €85. Their Festive Christmas Menu can be prepared for either two or four people as a three- or four-course meal with a choice of barbary duck or goose leg as the main. Prices range from €98 to €276 and exclude shipping.

Ganymed & Brechts, visit their website here.

Brasserie am Gendarmenmarkt

The Brasserie am Gendarmenmarkt offers their famous duck to go. For €99 including shipping, the bird is enough for two to three people and comes with red and green cabbage, four dumplings, gravy, breadcrumbs and apple chutney, packed in airtight vacuum bags (for easy at-home preparation). At home, the duck and side dishes only need to be heated up according to the enclosed instructions.