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• Amazing Experience! Highly Recommend!

  John W,

  Oct 22, 2025

  - Review from Viator

  5.00

  Chef Karl Wilder was simply fantastic with every detail of this very unique experience! A wonderful tour through his neighborhood. It’s one thing to learn history but to learn it through the experiences of Chef Karl’s family and childhood friends was just profound. And the meal! Wow! Every course was better than the one before. The company, the wine, the food! And, finally, Milou. He stole my heart and we bonded in the little time together. Not to mention he is a great guide himself! Can’t say enough good things about this experience and Chef Karl. Skip a touristy restaurant one evening and choose Chef Karl instead! You won’t regret it.

• Perfect way to spend an evening In Berlin

  rajsK4778PA,

  Oct 21, 2025

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  5.00

  This is an exceptional tour, it's a little different to how most food tours run, but the experience is genius. Karl takes you on a very personal journey in this cool part of Berlin, highlighting interesting stories which relate way back to his childhood. From the unique images of the Berlin wall to the area's activist nature all is revealed in a very fun way. After indulging in the areas history and culture, we then head back to Chef Karl's cozy apartment to indulge in a meal of several courses! Highlights included a delicious pastry and meat dish and gorgeous home made fried chicken! Good dinner chat with Karl and the guests and a very nice way to spend a night in Berlin.

• A Delightful and Entertaining Evening in the Bohemian Part of Berlin

  robertrW9001UM,

  Oct 6, 2025

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  5.00

  Chef Karl is a delightful host, as well as an informative tour guide of a less touristy part of Berlin. Before dinner, we took a stroll in the Kreuzberg area with Karl and his cute dog. Karl pointed out and gave the history of several unique spots in this bohemian area that, as tourists, we would have never discovered. Afterwards, we went to Karl's apartment for the dinner. He had prepared several cheese and starter dishes which we enjoyed with a very good bottle of wine. (I believe Karl is a sommelier, although I am not sure. Regardless, Karl really knows his wine!) The dinner consisted of several dishes, all of which were excellent and too much for us to eat. And, during the dinner we had a delightful conversation with Karl who has led a very interesting life. But, I'll let Karl tell each of you about that. We thoroughly enjoyed the entire evening a strongly suggest that you have a memorable dinner with Karl and his dog.

• It was wonderful ! Great...

  rima z,

  Sep 22, 2025

  - Review from Viator

  5.00

  It was wonderful ! Great company and great food. We walked around East Berlin and Chef Karl gave us history. What made it extra great was the personal history he has of the city.

• Unique, delicious, unforgettable

  Bob from Brooklyn,

  Sep 22, 2025

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  5.00

  Chef Karl, also detective novelist Karl, actor Karl and probably many more Karls) is one of a kind. A master storyteller with a sonorous voice, he regaled us with history and personal stories — including smuggling food and supplies into East Berlin as a four-year-old! When we’d had enough history, he and Coco served us a beautifully prepared dinner of homemade charcuterie - the goose liver pate was a standout—, blini, a salad composed of vegetables he’d grown himself (Farmer Karl?) and not-German-but-delicious Southern Fried Chicken, served with some of the best potatoes I’ve ever tasted. Karl is witty and charming, Milu is perfectly behaved, so dog-haters need not fear. All-in-all Chef Karl’s tour is a forgettable Berlin experience.

• A unique tour in Berlin

  Lawrence M,

  Sep 8, 2025

  - Review from Viator

  5.00

  Imagine you run into an old college friend, now a gourmet chef, as you are visiting Berlin and he invites you to dinner at his apartment. But first he (and his dog Milo) want to show you parts of East Berlin that are off the "typical" tour, after which he prepares a five-coursse dinner for you. THAT is the experience you will enjoy on this tour.

• Excellent food and conversation

  814cheryle,

  Aug 7, 2025

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  5.00

  Karl and his sidekick Milou were a good way to spend an evening in Berlin. He look after us his guests well and the food was amazing.

  

• The Best Chicken Soup: Do not miss this tour!

  arthurwJ9101DZ,

  Jul 22, 2025

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  5.00

  A member of our party was having stomach issues and asked for a menu change, resulting in some of the best chicken soup I had ever tasted. Imagine a meal at Grandma's house cooked with love, and that is what you get when you book Chef Karl's Berlin Culinary Adventure. The 90-minute tour delves deeply into his personal family history in East Berlin. Few tourists visit the East, and that is a mistake. The area is fascinating and so unlike the western part of the city. With Milou, the company mascot, you explore the streets, and they come alive with history. Then the meal, in addition to the aforementioned chicken soup, we had a spicy shrimp dish, delicious jalapeno cheddar cornbread, an incredible Bulgarian salad and gumbo z’herbes with rice. Everything was wonderful. I cannot recommend this tour more highly.

• Not to be missed experience!

  459ameliat,

  Jun 7, 2025

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  5.00

  Our evening with Chef Karl and his sidekick Milou was the most memorable experience we had during our visit to Berlin. He took us to parts of East Berlin that we would never have visited on our own. His firsthand knowledge of the transformation of this area from Soviet occupation to the lively youth culture it has now was illuminating. To top it off he served us a delicious 4-course meal made entirely from scratch. For me the charcuterie, with meats he smoked himself, was the highlight of the meal but every course was delicious. We thoroughly enjoyed our evening. The conversation we shared with him during and after the meal was very special to us. He’s led a very interesting life!

• Do NOT miss this experience

  H2605ILshaunl,

  May 17, 2025

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  5.00

  I live in Strasbourg and have taken Chef PJ's amazing tour in Paris. I was equally thrilled by Chef Karl. He and Milou are a team, so dog haters stay away. The menu changes daily, and it is exciting to see. I noticed in other reviews that Southern Food was mentioned, but we were French and Italian on the night of my tour. Trofe with Pesto sauce, handmade trofe with basil from his terrace. To make pasta for 6 must have taken him hours, but we ate it in minutes. A 5-star Italian Grandmother. We learned that he had a 3-year internship in Italy. We had a leg of lamb stuffed with Rosemary and garlic, and my friends don't like lamb, but devoured this presentation. I suppose with dessert, we did go Southern, it was a black bottom banana cream pie. And the wine was incredible. A natural storyteller, the tour before the dinner was also wonderful. Our next stop with be Istanbul and I promise to report on Chef Basak. The Chef Tours is clearly the food tour company to keep an eye on.

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