Lavanderia Vecchia

Props to the space and the design. Overall aesthetic is just so cool featuring an open kitchen with an industrial vibe and an old school washing sink in the middle of the restaurant. I can’t rave enough about the creativity behind the design of the space. There are even hand sown linen hanging from a laundry line. The details are truly exemplary. I stopped in for lunch with a group and service was great, they were super generous with the wine pours. Unfortunately, the pasta dish was underwhelming. It was quite cold actually but it turns out that was the ricotta perhaps. Nonetheless, presentation looked great with purple sauce and what not but it doesn’t matter if it doesn’t taste good. So overall, cool look but not so good in taste.

This is a very special hidden gem. The whole experience was just filled with so much joy and warm hospitality. The vegetarian and omnivore menu were both so delicious and very well cooked, seasoned and served. The service is more than atypical for berlin standards - we had to ask for nothing, they were well organized and wonderfully welcoming. We‘ll definitely come back soon.

We've visited this place twice so far and both times it's been a great experience. We get the set menu which is about €54 per person and consists of 4 courses: 2 starters, a pasta, a meat/fish dish and a dessert. 2 drinks per person are also included in the price. The food is interesting and tasty. Some of the dishes are more hits than others, but the overall experience is really nice. The atmosphere is lovely, nicely decorated and the staff are super friendly and welcoming! Make sure to reserve :)

A journey! We had dinner in the patio and it was fantastic. The set menu (5 courses) is €35 and just an amazing experience of flavor! You just chill and let the chefs surprise you. I like that there’s a meat + a fish + a vegetarian option, so everyone feels welcome. The bread is SO tasty and the olive oil so yum ☺️ We drank some delicious rose house-wine, super well priced (€14 for 1 liter) If you are looking for a relaxed, fun & tasty dining experience and are willing to submit and be surprised then this is the place!

Great atmosphere and amazing food. The restaurant is very well decorated with dim lighting and there’s a smoking room in the back for smokers. The food was outstanding, and you get your money’s worth. Delicious Italian dishes and a very good house wine. The fix price includes 2 appetizers, 2 mains, fantastic bread, desert, unlimited sparkling water, a bottle of wine, coffee, and a digestif. We had the vegetarian menu which was a real treat. Pro tip: if you go for dinner definitely skip lunch because it’s a lot of food 😋 The only cons I saw were: -The open kitchen isn’t very well ventilated so if you’re sitting next to it you’ll have the kitchen grease smells. (Not that the food was greasy, but just that classic food-cooking-in-oil smell from big kitchens) -Some of the dishes were slightly over-salted. Overall it was a great experience and the perfect place to celebrate a special occasion such as birthday or anniversary.

Delicious 5-course Italian tasting menu with drinks included. Lovely seasonal food - octopus, peas, tomatoes. Homemade focaccia 😋. Everything was delicious. Served in family sharing style. Friendly staff, good service. Decor and style of restaurant is great, so much laundry memorabilia, open kitchen. Highly recommend this experience.

Very friendly staff, cool location & atmosphere. Has the nice alternative, down to earth environment mixed with a trendy open kitchen. Tried & shared two 3 course lunch menus. The pasta were surprisingly a bit too salty, and overall no one dish stood out as being exceptional. But then again, it's lunch. Was still fun and a very reasonable price for the overall meal and experience.

this place is a great hidden find for lunch, with extremely affordable prices for the standard of food. not pictured is the bread which is soaked in olive oil and really tasty, albeit slightly too salty. the lamb chops were my favorite with a solidly tasty mint coating and creamy mash. it could do better with some of the balance of flavors but ultimately a good find.

LUNCH Atmosphere: 4 Service: 4 Food: 3 Price: 4 My Pick: Pasta of the Day Extra: - price for the pasta was 5.5€ - a la carte for lunch - outdoor seating area is quiet and nice during the summer - food came quickly - everything was pretty good except my food was too salty.

First things first: I was in brillant company when visiting, so that might have pushed this review to the 4 points while I actually was struggling between 3-4... Nevertheless, I had this place on my list for ages and was really looking forward to it. When you first come in the atmosphere of a laundry place gives the whole thing a rather homey and relaxed atmosphere so it is rather easy to relax. You pick you drinks and after a few minutes the courses start. The reason why I was in between 3 and 4 is because single courses I've had better before but in total this place is a culinary experience and well worth the visit. Bring nice company because you are going to eat here for about three hours and food is best in good company. This menu costs 58 EUR and I recommend to visit their website to sign up for fish or meat courses because they switch daily. I feel very comfortable recommending this place.

Amazing treasure! We went last night for my husband's birthday dinner and it was amazing. The menu had many course and they were all delicious - the highlights were the mussels, homemade bread, fish tartare on fennel salad with orange, the homemade pasta, the chocolate mousse and the espresso & grappa at the end. The staff was charming and friendly and we loved the open kitchen. Can't WAIT to come back!

+very friendly service + unique atmosphere - however the food is average at best and very simple - food does not justify the price

I don't get it. I mean, Lavanderia Vecchia is a nice concept and there are some things about the restaurant that are satisfying, but at the end of the (very large, very long) meal, I was just left with the impression that there was nothing special about the food. As you'll read elsewhere, this is a set menu of antipasti/appetizers, pasta, entree and dessert, plus wine for 58 euros/pp. So many other reviews here suggested the food was delicious and unusual, and while I admit some of the combinations were unique, almost none of them tasted better than average. In fact, many of the courses were on par with a casserole you might have brought to a dinner party in your early 20s when you were learning to cook on your own. I'm in no mood to give the place a bad rating -- I like the concept of set menus, and everyone sharing off of the same plates. It removes annoying things from group dates like who is going to order what and how to split the bill. This frees up more time for relaxing and chatting with your friends. The service is friendly and unintrusive, and the location is clean and modern (even if the larger neighborhood has the typical unkempt, litter-strewn streetscape of Neukoelln and other areas of Berlin). Pacing for eah dish was spot on -- our servers brought out each dish as we were finishing the last, and warned us when there would be a pause between the appetizers and pasta. But of the actual food, there's not much nice I can say. Of maybe a dozen diifferent dishes, only two -- an octopus salad and an avacado/shrimp dish -- were the only ones that impressed me. Everything else seemed thought up at the last minute by untrained hands. Sweet potato fries and yoghurt-y lentils? Could possibly work, but I'd wish the chefs spent more time developing the seasoning before proclaiming that recipe good to go. Other dishes seemed over or under cooked, and too many used boring or low-quality versions of the ingredients (do they shop at Aldi?), all of which undercuts the justification for the price and gimmick. Overall, I thought it was an amateur take on a big-city concept. This level of effort may be enough for Berlin, but wouldn't cut it among the stiffer competition of other big cities that take cooking seriously.

Amazing Italian restaurant. Very cool decor and the best Italian food I had in Berlin. 39 euro including all drinks or 29,50 without drinks which is a bargain for the amount and quality of food you get. Dinner starts at 19:30, and there's a fixed menu that changes weekly. Will write a bigger & better review later!

YES!!! Try it - that's one of my favorites in Germany! Recommend to go there w/ friends and have a good time!

Fantastic food, really great concept. Really good service. Prices were fair for the quality and amount of food you get. We were stuffed and happy when we left.

Cool place, totally hidden off the Main Street. Awesome decor with closing hanging everywhere. We had the 9 course prefix menu. Yum

Food very god, lovely location, service AWFUL, just plain rude, complaining in front of the clients, I've heard the waiter saying to her colleagues "I hate everyone here", just never happen to me to experience such a level of lack of respect. A real pity to have the evening ruined by the waiter calling me by waving his hand and tell my boyfriend to "get me back" (really?!) because I took my espresso to the table. Not worth it.

the staff was very friendly and professional! every dish of the course menu was really tasty. It was obvious that from cooking to dish presentation the chef put in a lot of love and care. Highly recommended!

.... "we ran out of olive oil" and "we don't serve parmiggian cheese with penne arrabiatta" were the words that sticked with me (with an unfriendly face) atmosphere was nice, just not the food or service. it was lunch, don't want to imagine dinner. won't come back.

I have to say, based on friends' recommendations, I was looking forward to this, and booked for our anniversary dinner. Sadly, it was pretty underwhelming. The spot is nice, and the service is very good, but the food was solidly mediocre - nothing exciting or unusual, and nothing very memorable or outstanding, for far more money than we pay for a normal night out at our fave little Italian spots in the neighborhood. Really nothing to write home about.

The owner was rude to say the least. First we asked for a San Pelegrino bottle of water and he gave us a lecture of how naive tourists we are and how Italians would make fun of us for choosing it. Then, something must have gone wrong in the kitchen and the result was that we all started coughing from the smoke. We asked them waitress and she told us that he would not give the OK neither for the ventilation to start nor for the windows to open. We were all coughing for several minutes so we asked him again and he said that no he is not going to open the windows just because I am weird and when I showed him all the other guest who were coughing he said it's because they are drunk. So half of everyone in the restaurant went out to have fresh air. The food was OK, but we ended up eating bread and not touching the last dishes.

I should have read the email conformation in more detail, but it doesn't justify the bad experience The place is cool looking. Some dishes were reasonable. That's all the good things I have to say. Dinner was snails and ravioli stuffed with horse meat. Not great selection for a fixed menus. Services was an insult And talking about salt, so much salt! In everything We had a reservation for 8pm, at 8.02 (as I was calling to tell them we are running late) we got in email saying: "where are you? Food is on the table getting cold" I told me friends maybe it's a bad translation from something in German It wasn't We walked in and the food was on the table Getting cold When I said I was vegetarian and my friend doesn't eat sea food we got a mad face I get it, I should have emailed you in advance. But I'm here now, don't you want us to enjoy the meal? By the way this is s sister Resturant to an a la carte Resturant next door, so they just need to get some options from there The sad thing is there are so many complaints about the service here and on TripAdvisor but the owners refuse to change

Had an excellent lunch here: ragu of veal with polenta for 6 euros. Superb. The evening menu's supposed to be good but haven't tried it yet. Great olive oil for those of us who like slopping our bread in the stuff Friendly service and open kitchen. Smoking room for nicotine addicts.

What a disappointment. You walk in and the atmosphere is pretty cool. And then ge fail of the place starts. Starts with what makes it so unpelasant. The people that work there. I have never been to a place with such bad and unfriendly service. The waiters are unprofessional and rude. They throw the plates on your table, questions are not to be asked, not answered. They refused to serve us a beer pre dinner. As it's a set menu they would sometimes say what of the menu they are serving now. A couple of times we didn't understand so we asked again and we were basically screamed at. From the around 8 different dishes two were good, the rest average. So really there is no reason to go to the place. Overpriced for Berlin too.

Good place if you like seafood but you're not allowed to drink your coffee at your table and the waiter makes sure you follow these rules in a very rude way. Staff don't look too happy. After the last dish is served they stare at you until you pay and leave. The toilets are flooded and pretty unclean. Obviously they can afford to be shitty and rude to their guests.