Avocado grows throughout the year in Australia and is a must with any breakfast. Allan Bourbon has brought the classic bagel from Bondi Beach to Berlin - serving it up in Allan's Breakfast Club.
Image: Lena Ganssmann
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Allan Bourbon: "Winter is tough when it gets dark at three o'clock in the afternoon."
Just a little patch of Bondi Beach in Berlin: Allan Bourbon brings the Australian coast to the German capital. Allan Bourbon is technically French, born in Paris. There he studied art and communication before moving to Australia, where he lived for more than 20 years. Now Allan Bourbon is a dual citizen. "I would say that I'm more Australian than French," he says. When he met his girlfriend – a German – on the other side of the world, the two resolved to move to Berlin. In 2013, they made the leap. Two years later, Allan Bourbon started his Breakfast Club in Prenzlauer Berg.
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ABC or Allan's Breakfast Club in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg
His restaurant was set up to offer its guests typical Australian breakfasts from "down under." The restaurant, which opened in 2015, is always packed – at all times of the day. In the evening, the café transforms into a wine bar - that's when Bourbon's French side takes centerstage.
An Aussie breakfast in Berlin
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Salmon-avocado poppy seed bagel
Serves 1
Ingredients:
1 salmon side or ocean trout, deboned
1 poppy seed bagel
1 avocado
4 boiled red beets
50 g fresh dill
Vodka
200 g fine sugar
300 g sea salt
1⁄4 lemon
Lemon juice
1 pinch sea salt
Pepper
Olive oil
Preparation:
Remove fish skin. Thinly slice red beet and add to fish. Rub fish with salt and coat with a layer of sugar. Chop dill and add to fish, roll up fish, cover, and weigh down. Allow to sit in refrigerator for at least 24 hours. The salt and sugar will "cook" the fish.
The next day, wash fish, dry, and slice very thinly. Toast bagel, crush avocado, and sprinkle with lemon and salt. Spread crushed avocado on both halves of the bagel. Then place sliced fish on top. Add lemon juice, olive oil, and a sprinkle of vodka.
Allan's Breakfast Club prepares salmon-avocado poppy seed bagel
Avocado grows throughout the year in Australia and is a must with any breakfast. Allan Bourbon has brought the classic bagel from Bondi Beach to Berlin - serving it up in Allan's Breakfast Club.
Image: Lena Ganssmann
Breakfast can be had anywhere
It's his little spot in Berlin. He's found it here, despite the tough winters. And he's brought a bit of Australia's Bondi Beach to the German capital.: the café ABC, which stands for "Allan's Breakfast Club." Just as the name implies, it's all about Australian breakfast.
Image: Allan Bourbon
A man who knows what he can do
"I am not a trained chef, but I love food, I love cooking. So basically, everything I learned from different places where I worked in Sydney, I tried then out at home. I asked the head chefs to come to my place and we cooked together. Every chef that I worked with or every restaurant I worked at, they all trained me and gave me something that I learned from." - Allan Bourbon
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A coffee with friends
"In Australia, there are cafés everywhere. Breakfast in Australia is not a necessity; it is really a way of life. We wake up in the morning, we call our friends, we gather together and go to a café and eat and drink and spend time together. Yeah, we are just big foodies there. That is what it is, simple. We just love food." - Allan Bourbon
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Bourbon and vodka
Allan Boubon marinates the salmon for his salmon-avocado poppy seed bagel himself. For the marinade, he combines red beet, salt, sugar, dill and vodka. The red beet gives the fish its dark red edge. The salmon marinates for up to three days in the refrigerator. The marinade also preserves it, and lends it its unique flavor.
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Bondi Beach in Berlin
"That recipe is from Sydney, from Bondi, were I used to live with my girlfriend. We'd go every morning for a swim. Afterward, just around the corner, there's a coffee place called "Harry's Bondi" and we always used to go there and sit in the sun, and order salmon bagel with avocado and poppy seed. It was amazing, it was perfect, the best thing I could do!" - Allan Bourbon
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ABC - Allans Breakfast Club and Wine Bar
Rykestraße 13
10405 Berlin
