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"It was a very dark street and
aside Cafe Oren, the mood is
lively and convivial. Israeli nothing was going on except that
music is playing on the sound it had been known as a street for
system. Patrons seated at the prostitutes," adds Mr. Bergel.
Both are taking a brief time
round tables talk animatedly. Be-
hind the bar, bottles of Israeli out during their typically busy
day at the restaurant to talk
wine and beer are on display.
Waiters carry out platters about how they opened Oren and
heaping with portions of hum- all about what has happened
mus, tabouli and other Middle since.
In 1991, Mr. Metzger
Eastern foods.
The
This could easily be a cafe entrance to had been a restaurateur in
in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem; Cafe Oren West Berlin. His restau-
but instead it is in the heart in eastern rant closed after a bomb at-
tack. Mr. Bergel was a
of eastern Berlin.
Berlin.
machine engineer eager to
The chance to enjoy a
taste of Israel — literally — in start his own business. The two
the former East Berlin is just one teamed up and decided to look
of the attractions of this popu- at property on Oranienburger-
strasse, a main street in eastern
lar restaurant.
Cafe Oren is not only the best Berlin.
It was located in what had
place to enjoy Israeli cuisine in
Berlin, it is also an intriguing ex- been Berlin's Jewish neighbor-
ample of Israeli enterprise trans- hood before the war. It was right
next door to a historic syna-
planted to eastern Berlin.
Owner Yochi Bergel and man- gogue, the New Synagogue,
ager Dan Metzger are native Is- which was then undergoing the
raelis and longtime Berlin start of an extensive renovation
residents. Both were virtual pio- project.
But the restaurant site itself
neers in opening a new business
looked unpromising: an empty
here.
Their restaurant is an im- building on a deserted street.
pressive success story. It took vi- Still, the two friends couldn't let
sion to create it five years ago in go of the idea. "Everybody was
the transitional time after the skeptical," admits Mr. Bergel.
Berlin Wall came down and the "But we finally said, 'OK, let's
give it a try.' "
two Berlins were unified.
From the start, they knew they
Under Communist rule, East
Berlin had been a bleak, deso- wanted to create a friendly, in-
late place with a faltering econ- formal, Israeli-style eatery. "We
omy. It still looked that way in are both Israelis and Jewish and
1991 when the two partners we were next door to a syna-
gogue, so making an Israeli
came to look at a possible restau-
restaurant came naturally to us,"
rant site.
"All the buildings were shut says Mr. Bergel.
"We wanted to make a gath-
down, and it was very deserted,"
Mr. Metzger recalls. "It was like ering place for people from all re-
ligions, a place where everybody
a strange little town of its own."

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