While you DU Cooks & Bakers were enjoying your 4th of July specialities, it was an ordinary Thursday for Germans, and to us, my husband's birthday. Most of the time we were in Berlin he didn't feel well, because the chest cold I'd caught the week before presented in him as fevers and fatigue. But there was a weekly singing to go to (he's a shape note singer) so that perked him up. I'd seen a Basque tapas place online that fortunately happened to be on the way to the singing, so off we went.
My husband had venison meatballs in a mushroom sauce, garnished with a sweet potatoe puree, I had garlicky shrimp on spinach risotto, our son had a mixed green salad with smoked trout and basil aioli, and we shared bok choy with romesco sauce. All tasty, the bok choy and romesco was an unusual and yet good combination, though it was very difficult to cut in small enough pieces so one did not look like a ruminant animal eating it 
My son and husband had Apfelschorle, which is a not terribly sweet apple spritzer. I tried a Campari and soda with orange. I understand why it's a popular summer drink, but it's quite bitter. (But now I've had a chance to try it!)
Here's the website of the restaurant: https://txokoa.de/ You can change the language to read it in English or Spanish as well as German.
It was great not to have to hear fireworks going off all day, and the newspapers and tv I saw made no mention of Trump's idiotic parade for himself, which must have been super annoying in the US.
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