Govindam

Twice last week, I found myself at the local Ayurvedic restaurant, Govindam. It's run by a really lovely couple and though the set-up is more like a fast food with a backlit menu behind the deli-style counter, the atmosphere is all peace.

The first time I went alone because I had an hour between classes and it's in a central neighborhood - right between Zulpicher Platz and Barbarossa Platz. I ordered the daily menu, which came with soup and rice and chapati and sugar-nut dessert (all vegan, perchance, though some days the Mittagstisch is just vegetarian). It doesn't look all that appetizing here but the chutneys made the eggplant delicious.

The second time I went with my husband and had a vegan doner. We go just to see we had a doner, really, because we feel left out here in Turkish Germany, not being able to partake of the doners. But this one was especially delicious... no leg of lamb being hacked and dripping over the french fries.

We've been before and we'll go again just because we always feel so good after eating here and it doesn't break the bank - just 2.50 for the doner. Though sometimes I wish I could just make this stuff myself. I mean, how hard can making tamarind chutney be?