
Big feelings between courses.
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à la Carte pairs meals in restaurants with intimate, interview-led conversations that can move from salad and sleepovers to space travel or crisis reporting. Its best moments feel casual at first, then suddenly honest.
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About à la Carte
à la Carte is an interview show where the table matters. Restaurants are not just scenery here; they shape the pace, soften the room, and give each conversation a place to breathe. The format can start with a toast, a dish, a game, or a funny personal detail, then widen into subjects with real emotional weight. One episode with Lea Faupel turns a home visit into a conversation about best friendship, adult responsibilities, support, and why sleepovers still matter. Another, made with Samuel Sibilski of Gibmar Feuer, uses a collaboration setup to talk through pop culture, body expectations, and changing public language. With Rabea Rogge, the show reaches the scale of space travel without losing its human focus. Her story moves through engineering, ship work, adventure, robots, pressure, and the practical reality behind an extraordinary milestone. The conversation with Viktoria Reichelt is heavier. It follows a holiday that turned into crisis, the mental work of staying rational, and the strange bond formed with strangers during emergency conditions. Hami’s episode brings online visibility to the table, including hate, feminism, community demand, research, and the way people treat creators differently once their reach grows. Senna’s visit is loud, playful, food-forward, and direct about dating, comments, blocking, and emotional boundaries. Across these episodes, à la Carte keeps a warm and immediate feel. It does not float above its guests. It stays close to their anecdotes, reactions, appetites, hesitations, and jokes. The show is especially good at letting a casual bite or offhand remark become the route into something more serious. Its charm is not neatness. It is the feeling of being seated near a lively table where people are still chewing, laughing, remembering, and deciding how honest they want to be.
Made for: For listeners who like interviews that feel informal, emotionally open, and anchored in real conversation. It also suits anyone drawn to food-table intimacy, friendship talk, public-life pressure, and personal stories with sudden depth.
What sets it apart: The restaurant format gives à la Carte a natural emotional rhythm: taste, laugh, reset, then go deeper. It stands apart by letting meals and small social moments carry the interview instead of treating them as decoration.
In their own words
Hereinspaziert und herzlich Willkommen bei à la Carte! Riccarda Greco schaut in ihrem neuen Podcast über den Tellerrand und das jede Woche in einem neuen Restaurant. Dabei ist Riccarda nicht allein: Bei einem Drei-Gänge-Menü wird sie von neuen Gäst*innen begleitet, die mit spannenden Themen immer für das gewisse Etwas sorgen. Nichts ist tabu, alles darf, und nichts muss. Gesellt euch dazu und lasst euch jeden Mittwoch eine neue Folge à la Carte schmecken!
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One table seats an astronaut, a wartime detour, and a best-friend sleepover - come hungry for candor.
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- Riccarda to ask accomplished guests about the person behind the headline
- serious talk about crisis and online hate served without a stiff interview voice
Episodes
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Lea: Wer braucht Männer, wenn es Freundinnen gibt
à la carte macht mit Lea Faupel eine Special-Folge über Freundschaften, die sich zwischen Köln und Berlin verändern.
May 5, 2026·38m·2 clips - 2
Gib ma Feuer-Special: Wer ist Harry Styles??
Hidden gemRicarda Greco and Samuel Sibilski use a special à la Carte x Gib mar Feuer collab to talk through comedy, betting addiction, body image, battle rap, and karaoke.
Apr 28, 2026·49m·3 clips - 3
Rabea Rogge: Deutschlands erste Frau im All
Hidden gemRabea Rogge says the trip from launch to orbit took 9 Minuten 39 Sekunden, and she felt nausea when the capsule reached orbit at 27.000 Kilometer pro Stunde.
Apr 14, 2026·59m·5 clips - 4
Victoria Reichelt: Vom Urlaub in den Ausnahmezustand
Hidden gemRicarda opens à la Carte at Herr Rossi in Prenzlauer Berg and talks with Viktoria Reichelt, the journalist behind Vika's Takes, about how she explains world politics.
Apr 7, 2026·58m·3 clips - 5
HAMI: Wie viel Hass hält man aus?
à la Carte records with Hami at Kamala Vigin on Boxhagener Straße 85 and opens with a rapid-fire fact-or-exaggerated game about ghosting, dating, feminism, and men with podcasts.
Apr 1, 2026·48m·3 clips - 6
HAMI: Wie viel Hass hält man aus?
Mar 31, 2026·48m - 7
Specialfolge: Meine Schwester exposed mich
Mar 24, 2026·29m - 8
Alli Neumann: dein freund ist schrott
Mar 17, 2026·54m - 9
Senna Gamour: Seine Stimme nutzen und Anti-Dating-Mentalität
Senna Gamour erzählt im Berliner Restaurant Zomi von ihrer Kifferphase 1995/96, in der sie fünf Minuten im Aufzug als drei Stunden erlebte.
Mar 10, 2026·1h 27m·2 clips - 10
Weltfrauentag-Special: Junko Tabei - die Frau, die den Mount Everest eroberte
Mar 3, 2026·14m - 11
Josephine Joseph: Running a Business & Authentizität auf Social MediaNeue Episode
Feb 24, 2026·1h 24m - 12
Faisal Kawusi: „Geld und Bitches“
Feb 17, 2026·1h 17m - 13
Valentinstags-Special: Er hat WAS gemacht??
Feb 11, 2026·40m - 14
Mariattma Jadie: Diagnose Borderline und Social Media als Sprungbrett
Feb 3, 2026·1h 2m - 15
Ruth-Maria Thomas: Über die schönste Version und Tabuthemen
Jan 27, 2026·48m - 16
Nele Ludowig: Der grosse Thailand-Recap
Jan 20, 2026·55m - 17
Justus Riesner: All about Maxton Hall
Jan 13, 2026·52m - 18
Luise Grossmann: Vom Profisport nach Hollywood
Jan 6, 2026·1h 2m - 19
Nele & Selma: Reset drücken
Dec 31, 2025·30m - 20
Jermaine: Wahlheimat Hamburg und das frühe Ankommen der Depression
Dec 23, 2025·45m - 21
Riccarda Greco: Die große Berlinfolge
Dec 17, 2025·33m - 22
Belina Bellwood: Über Mental Health und Kreativität
Dec 9, 2025·1h 8m - 23
Johann Ehrhardt: Behind the Scenes bei Haderlump
Dec 2, 2025·48m - 24
Esther Graf: Über Frauen in der Musikindustrie und den Umgang mit Kritik
Nov 25, 2025·1h 21m - 25
Selma & Nele: Girlhood & sind Boyfriends peinlich?
Nov 18, 2025·49m - 26
Laura Abla: Die „Queen of Veränderung“
Nov 12, 2025·1h 3m - 27
Hannah Kleeberg: Herrlich Dining & Haltung mit Herz
Nov 4, 2025·43m - 28
Lena Mantler: Zwischen Traum und Realität
Oct 28, 2025·45m