BRS x Flavor Focus Lab | Café Engels Ramen Pop-Up

Spring is just around the corner, temperatures are rising and there is no longer any risk of slipping on the sidewalks. What does that mean for us? Pop-up time!

Before the fourth edition of the Berlin Ramen Festival takes place in October, we're bringing the community back to a more intimate setting. We're returning to our pop-up origins - Café Engels in the beautiful Schillerkiez district just outside Tempelhofer Feld. We're teaming up again with Simon, known for his legendary Tantanmen from Berlin Ramen Festival #3 and our last pop-up at Terz. With the FlavorFocusLab, he is giving his great passion, fermentation, a focused stage.

Whether vegan or meat - it's all about umami here: homemade garums, misos and shoyus, fermented for months, perfectly balanced and simply on point. See for yourself!

When?

🗓️ April 16 - 18, 2026

Where?

📍 Engels Café, Schillerkiez, Herrfurthstraße 21, 12049 Berlin, Neukölln

⚠️ Walk-ins expressly welcome.

✨ Reservation ✨

What can you expect?

Starters

🫛 Edamame - umami salt, horseradish

🧈 Hiyayakko - cold silken tofu, pickled ginger, radish, shoyu tare, furikake

🥒 Kyuri Sunomono - cucumber, wakame, shio koji, shiso vinegar, nori, sesame seeds

🌶️ Homemade kimchi - Chinese cabbage, ginger, gochugaro chili

🌱 Asparagus salad - green asparagus, kohlrabi kimchi, young spinach, ponzu, furikake

Ramen

🍜 Triple mushroom ramen (vegan)

Double soup of mushroom dashi and vegetable stock with a tare of porcini mushroom shoyu, chanterelle garum and chanterelle miso, tofu chasu, onion leek, radish kimchi, marinated mushrooms, wild garlic oil

🍜 Shoyu Royal Ramen

Doublesoup of chicken stock and bonito dashi with a tare of 8 different shoyus and garums, sous vide coppa chasu, rocket, shoyu onion, ni tamago (half an egg), porcini mushroom oil

👉 Everything handmade. From miso, garum, tare to 8 own soy sauces.

Dessert

🍨 Miso brownie - dark chocolate, shiro miso, roasted pumpkin seeds, smoked salt caramel

Drinks

🍶 Soft drinks, sake long drinks and homemade drinks

Invite your neighbor, mother-in-law and favorite work colleague to ring in the weekend with us in after-work, date night or pre-party mode and enjoy!

Let's sip, slurp & socialize!