Once, in a more innocent time, Berlin was a paradise of €3 kebabs. Those days are as extinct as East German currency, and the city’s residents mourn them with the same mix of nostalgia and outrage. The average Döner now clocks in between €7 and €9, with prices near Alexanderplatz or Friedrichstraße creeping toward €10, a figure so scandalous it has inspired everything from angry Reddit threads to impromptu letters to the editor.

But here’s the twist: Berlin’s Döner isn’t just surviving inflation, it’s —kind of— evolving. The kebab scene has fractured into distinct schools of thought. The purists, who swear by slow-roasted lamb at spots like Adana Grill in Kreuzberg, where the meat is shaved with the precision of a samurai sword. The reformers, who champion vegan Döner at Vöner in Friedrichshain, where seitan gets the same royal treatment as its meaty forebears. And the opportunists, who lurk outside clubs at sunrise, willing to pay €7 for a kebab they’ll won’t remember eating.