CRACKING THE CODA: DESSERT DINING IN BERLIN

I was toddler-excited about visiting Coda, the two-Michelin-starred ‘progressive dessert’ restaurant in Berlin’s Neukölln neighbourhood. With an insatiable appetite for sweets, I was looking forward to putting myself and my teeth to the test over a multi-course menu, shovelling sweetened cream, syrups, biscuit bases and plump, filled pastry into my mouth, in the pursuit of an imagined pudding prize while my pancreas screamed for mercy…