Guidebook for Berlin

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Guidebook for Berlin

Drinks & Nightlife

One of Berlin's best cocktail bars. Seriously.
17 locals recommend
Homemade Coffee Bar
181 Uhlandstraße
17 locals recommend
One of Berlin's best cocktail bars. Seriously.
Find this great, cozy beer garden inside the Kreuzbergpark for a cold beer and a bratwurst.
47 locals recommend
Golgatha
Monumentenstraße
47 locals recommend
Find this great, cozy beer garden inside the Kreuzbergpark for a cold beer and a bratwurst.
Cool bar, usually with live DJs. Good vibe, fun people.
176 locals recommend
Mein Haus am See
197-198 Brunnenstraße
176 locals recommend
Cool bar, usually with live DJs. Good vibe, fun people.

Food Scene

Great coffee, amazing homemade breakfast, daily lunch selection and delicious cakes. Owners & staff are super friendly!
21 locals recommend
Mokalola
21 Leberstraße
21 locals recommend
Great coffee, amazing homemade breakfast, daily lunch selection and delicious cakes. Owners & staff are super friendly!
They actually sell coffee makers, espresso machines and stuff like that, but they also offer really great coffee for a bargain price!
Caffeine Espresso GmbH
54 Kolonnenstraße
They actually sell coffee makers, espresso machines and stuff like that, but they also offer really great coffee for a bargain price!
If you want authentic turkish food, bread fresh from the wood-fired oven and possibly the best Döner in town, this is the place to go.
7 locals recommend
Aspendos Restaurant
11 Hauptstraße
7 locals recommend
If you want authentic turkish food, bread fresh from the wood-fired oven and possibly the best Döner in town, this is the place to go.
If you haven't been to Double Eye, you haven't been in Schöneberg, really. It's THE coffee place, small, friendly, often crowded, cheap and always worth a short wait in the line. Get the Galao!
96 locals recommend
DoubleEye
22 Akazienstraße
96 locals recommend
If you haven't been to Double Eye, you haven't been in Schöneberg, really. It's THE coffee place, small, friendly, often crowded, cheap and always worth a short wait in the line. Get the Galao!
This place is a Schöneberg institution. The Sunday brunches in the huge, cozy library style living room in the back are legendary, book a few weeks ahead if coming with a larger group.
64 locals recommend
Café BilderBuch
28 Akazienstraße
64 locals recommend
This place is a Schöneberg institution. The Sunday brunches in the huge, cozy library style living room in the back are legendary, book a few weeks ahead if coming with a larger group.
small pizza place on a very nice corner with a few of Potsdamer Platz and the TV tower. Great in summer!
10 locals recommend
Cielo Di Berlino
31 Monumentenstraße
10 locals recommend
small pizza place on a very nice corner with a few of Potsdamer Platz and the TV tower. Great in summer!
My favourite Berlin beer garden. Perfect place in the summer, located right next to a lake inside the Tiergarten park - good food and beer. Not cheap and with a slightly posh, almost Munich feel.
171 locals recommend
Cafe am Neuen See
2 Lichtensteinallee
171 locals recommend
My favourite Berlin beer garden. Perfect place in the summer, located right next to a lake inside the Tiergarten park - good food and beer. Not cheap and with a slightly posh, almost Munich feel.
My local pizza delivery guy. Super friendly owner/cook, and although he's not really Italian (and his name is not really Antonio), the food is pretty decent at a good price.
Antonio Lieferservice
35 Leberstraße
My local pizza delivery guy. Super friendly owner/cook, and although he's not really Italian (and his name is not really Antonio), the food is pretty decent at a good price.
One of the best Italian restaurants in town, in my opinion. Amazing pizza at a bargain price. Might be crowded on weekend nights.
24 locals recommend
Trattoria del Corso
70 Hauptstraße
24 locals recommend
One of the best Italian restaurants in town, in my opinion. Amazing pizza at a bargain price. Might be crowded on weekend nights.
Currywurst is a true Berlin special. This is one of the most iconic places, open until the wee hours and always crowded. Not the best currywurst in town, but that's just my opinion :)
182 locals recommend
Curry 36
36 Mehringdamm
182 locals recommend
Currywurst is a true Berlin special. This is one of the most iconic places, open until the wee hours and always crowded. Not the best currywurst in town, but that's just my opinion :)
Another Berlin must-eat - Mustafa's Döner, with a long line most of the time. It's worth the wait - although insiders can skip the line by going to new Mustafa's in Mitte instead ;)
217 locals recommend
Mustafa's Gemüse Kebap
32 Mehringdamm
217 locals recommend
Another Berlin must-eat - Mustafa's Döner, with a long line most of the time. It's worth the wait - although insiders can skip the line by going to new Mustafa's in Mitte instead ;)
This could well be Berlin's best burger joint. Spectacular burger creations inside a very small self-service restaurant with just a few seats and an old Nintendo to keep you busy while waiting.
291 locals recommend
Berlinburger International
5 Pannierstraße
291 locals recommend
This could well be Berlin's best burger joint. Spectacular burger creations inside a very small self-service restaurant with just a few seats and an old Nintendo to keep you busy while waiting.
Another fantastic burger located underneath the elevated railway inside a former public restroom facility. Open until very late and therefore perfect for post-club munchies. Get the Meisterburger!
289 locals recommend
Burgermeister Schlesisches Tor
8 Oberbaumstraße
289 locals recommend
Another fantastic burger located underneath the elevated railway inside a former public restroom facility. Open until very late and therefore perfect for post-club munchies. Get the Meisterburger!
Fancy pasta? This is the place to go.
7 locals recommend
Spaghetti Western
179 Torstraße
7 locals recommend
Fancy pasta? This is the place to go.
Amazing fresh burritos, quesadillas and salads. Fast food, but healthy and really yummy!
56 locals recommend
Dolores
7 Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße
56 locals recommend
Amazing fresh burritos, quesadillas and salads. Fast food, but healthy and really yummy!
Trendy Vietnamese restaurant, always crowded, always good.
196 locals recommend
Monsieur Vuong
46 Alte Schönhauser Str.
196 locals recommend
Trendy Vietnamese restaurant, always crowded, always good.
Cynthia Barcomi's famous café and deli. Great coffee, amazing cakes & delicious sandwiches.
57 locals recommend
Barcomis Deli
21 Sophienstraße
57 locals recommend
Cynthia Barcomi's famous café and deli. Great coffee, amazing cakes & delicious sandwiches.
American style deli, sandwiches aren't as amazing as they seem, but the music is always good, the crowd interesting and the coffee pretty great.
10 locals recommend
Luigi Zuckermann
67 Rosenthaler Str.
10 locals recommend
American style deli, sandwiches aren't as amazing as they seem, but the music is always good, the crowd interesting and the coffee pretty great.
Get a fancy bento box filled with little Japanese treats. A feast for the eyes and taste buds.
11 locals recommend
Hashi Izakaya & Japanese Kitchen
63 Rosenthaler Str.
11 locals recommend
Get a fancy bento box filled with little Japanese treats. A feast for the eyes and taste buds.
Great Italian eatery.
78 locals recommend
Papà Pane di Sorrento
23 Ackerstraße
78 locals recommend
Great Italian eatery.
Stylish Sushi/Japanese place, not cheap, but good food.
130 locals recommend
Cocolo Ramen
3 Gipsstraße
130 locals recommend
Stylish Sushi/Japanese place, not cheap, but good food.
Fantastic Thai/Vietnamese fusion food - almost like Asian tapas. Choose from a whole array of 3 Euro bowls and share with everyone!
223 locals recommend
Transit
68 Rosenthaler Str.
223 locals recommend
Fantastic Thai/Vietnamese fusion food - almost like Asian tapas. Choose from a whole array of 3 Euro bowls and share with everyone!
amazing ice cream. In summer only!
44 locals recommend
Eismanufaktur Berlin
7 Graefestraße
44 locals recommend
amazing ice cream. In summer only!
Great café/bakery, they bake their own bread and the Zimtschnecken (cinnamon rolls) in different varieties are a dream come true.
155 locals recommend
Zeit für Brot
4 Alte Schönhauser Str.
155 locals recommend
Great café/bakery, they bake their own bread and the Zimtschnecken (cinnamon rolls) in different varieties are a dream come true.
Great for a sunday (or any day) brunch, located in an old villa right at Kreuzbergpark.
15 locals recommend
Villa Kreuzberg
62 Kreuzbergstraße
15 locals recommend
Great for a sunday (or any day) brunch, located in an old villa right at Kreuzbergpark.
Almost like Greek tapas, this place offers amazing Greek food with organic meat in small, great to share portions.
13 locals recommend
Berkis
45 Winterfeldtstraße
13 locals recommend
Almost like Greek tapas, this place offers amazing Greek food with organic meat in small, great to share portions.
Great food & atmosphere
24 locals recommend
Gasthaus Figl
47 Urbanstraße
24 locals recommend
Great food & atmosphere
One of the best Chinese restaurants in Berlin, authentic Sichuan kitchen.
13 locals recommend
Tian Fu 天府酒家
142 Uhlandstraße
13 locals recommend
One of the best Chinese restaurants in Berlin, authentic Sichuan kitchen.

Shopping

Very special little bakery - actually they mainly sell grain and flower and are well known even outside of Germany. Their bread is the bomb.
20 locals recommend
Mehlstübchen
28 Leberstraße
20 locals recommend
Very special little bakery - actually they mainly sell grain and flower and are well known even outside of Germany. Their bread is the bomb.
This little store offers organic apples and other fruit - try out different (sometimes rare) varieties and buy the ones you like best!
Apfelgalerie Schöneberg
3 Goltzstraße
This little store offers organic apples and other fruit - try out different (sometimes rare) varieties and buy the ones you like best!

Everything Else

Beautiful, almost magical little park - not a park in the common sense, but a project about the reclamation of urban/industrial areas by nature.
44 locals recommend
Natur-Park Schöneberger Südgelände
47-49 Prellerweg
44 locals recommend
Beautiful, almost magical little park - not a park in the common sense, but a project about the reclamation of urban/industrial areas by nature.
Also called Kreuzbergpark, this is the actual "Berg" (mountain) in "Kreuzberg". It's really nice in summer, grab a few beers and wander to the top to get a great view of Berlin!
450 locals recommend
Viktoriapark
Katzbachstraße
450 locals recommend
Also called Kreuzbergpark, this is the actual "Berg" (mountain) in "Kreuzberg". It's really nice in summer, grab a few beers and wander to the top to get a great view of Berlin!
The old Tempelhof Airport area (built by the Nazis) has been transformed into a public park with a beer garden. It has a very unique and almost magical feel to it, wandering the old airport runways.
1088 locals recommend
Tempelhofer Feld
Tempelhofer Damm
1088 locals recommend
The old Tempelhof Airport area (built by the Nazis) has been transformed into a public park with a beer garden. It has a very unique and almost magical feel to it, wandering the old airport runways.
Schöneberg's public swimming pool. Good for kids as well, even has a water slide I think!
25 locals recommend
Stadtbad Schöneberg "Hans Rosenthal"
39 Hauptstraße
25 locals recommend
Schöneberg's public swimming pool. Good for kids as well, even has a water slide I think!
One of Berlin's best locations for wellness, sauna and spa. The architecture is fantastic, there's a pool area with underwater music (and even DJs on selected nights) and great facilities.
101 locals recommend
Liquidrom
10 Möckernstraße
101 locals recommend
One of Berlin's best locations for wellness, sauna and spa. The architecture is fantastic, there's a pool area with underwater music (and even DJs on selected nights) and great facilities.
Every Wednesday and Saturday this street market offers fresh produce and all kinds of other stuff. Stroll down Akazienstraße, grab a coffee at Double Eye and enjoy the lively atmosphere!
105 locals recommend
Winterfeldtplatz station
105 locals recommend
Every Wednesday and Saturday this street market offers fresh produce and all kinds of other stuff. Stroll down Akazienstraße, grab a coffee at Double Eye and enjoy the lively atmosphere!
Nice park within walking distance of my flat, great in the summer, also good to go running - you can follow the park all the way to Wilmersdorf.
17 locals recommend
Rudolph-Wilde Park
Kufsteiner Straße
17 locals recommend
Nice park within walking distance of my flat, great in the summer, also good to go running - you can follow the park all the way to Wilmersdorf.
Take the ferry across and enjoy a beautiful park area on a little island on Havel river!
40 locals recommend
Pfaueninsel
40 locals recommend
Take the ferry across and enjoy a beautiful park area on a little island on Havel river!

Essentials

This supermarket has a decent selection and is located within the Südkreuz train station - it's open every day from 7 to 22, even on Sundays and bank holidays.
8 locals recommend
EDEKA Bahnhof Südkreuz
1 Hildegard-Knef-Platz
8 locals recommend
This supermarket has a decent selection and is located within the Südkreuz train station - it's open every day from 7 to 22, even on Sundays and bank holidays.
It's not a supermarket in the common sense - sorted by recipe, each dish is represented by a beautifully set up table - choose your menu and pick up everything you need to cook it.
22 locals recommend
Kochhaus Schöneberg
1 Akazienstraße
22 locals recommend
It's not a supermarket in the common sense - sorted by recipe, each dish is represented by a beautifully set up table - choose your menu and pick up everything you need to cook it.
Organic supermarket.
24 locals recommend
Bioinsel health food GbR
2 Leberstraße
24 locals recommend
Organic supermarket.
Medium sized supermarket, has everything you usually need. Normal German business hours.
Spar-Markt Fischer
Medium sized supermarket, has everything you usually need. Normal German business hours.
Inside this slightly shady, 90s West-Berlin mini-mall there's a drugstore, a decent Supermarket (Reichelt, upstairs) and an ALDI for shopping cheap groceries, plus all kinds of other shady stuff.
9 locals recommend
ALDI Berlin-Schöneberg
2 Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz
9 locals recommend
Inside this slightly shady, 90s West-Berlin mini-mall there's a drugstore, a decent Supermarket (Reichelt, upstairs) and an ALDI for shopping cheap groceries, plus all kinds of other shady stuff.

Arts & Culture

This cinema is one of the few in Berlin that shows films in their original version with subtitles. It's a small cinema, so they only show 1 or 2 movies at a time.
46 locals recommend
Odeon
116 Hauptstraße
46 locals recommend
This cinema is one of the few in Berlin that shows films in their original version with subtitles. It's a small cinema, so they only show 1 or 2 movies at a time.
My favourite Berlin night club. It's techno, but in a good way - like a playground for adults it has many rooms, a garden, different floors... gets crowded around 3 and stays open until the wee hours.
296 locals recommend
Salon - Zur wilden Renate
70 Alt-Stralau
296 locals recommend
My favourite Berlin night club. It's techno, but in a good way - like a playground for adults it has many rooms, a garden, different floors... gets crowded around 3 and stays open until the wee hours.
Art space and parties inside an old Wedding public swimming pool. Fantastic location, check it out!
14 locals recommend
STATTBAD
14 locals recommend
Art space and parties inside an old Wedding public swimming pool. Fantastic location, check it out!
Cineplex showing English originals only, no subtitles. Big movie selection, nice screens & sound.
76 locals recommend
CineStar Original
4 Potsdamer Str.
76 locals recommend
Cineplex showing English originals only, no subtitles. Big movie selection, nice screens & sound.
Great modern art museum with a permanent and different temporary exhibitions. Impressive building, and close to Hauptbahnhof.
354 locals recommend
Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum for Contemporary Art - Berlin
50 Invalidenstraße
354 locals recommend
Great modern art museum with a permanent and different temporary exhibitions. Impressive building, and close to Hauptbahnhof.
Home turf of the famous Berlin Phil, where incidentally my dad plays the viola. If you want to see a concert, let me know and I can check whether I can get you tickets, even ;)
99 locals recommend
Berliner Philharmonie
1 Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße
99 locals recommend
Home turf of the famous Berlin Phil, where incidentally my dad plays the viola. If you want to see a concert, let me know and I can check whether I can get you tickets, even ;)
Another place for great electronic music.
123 locals recommend
Ritter Butzke
24-27 Ritterstraße
123 locals recommend
Another place for great electronic music.
The infamous Berghain, Berlin's most famous techno club. Not for everyone, but it's definitely an experience.
934 locals recommend
Panorama Bar
Am Wriezener Bahnhof
934 locals recommend
The infamous Berghain, Berlin's most famous techno club. Not for everyone, but it's definitely an experience.

Sightseeing

This old gas storage is a Schöneberg landmark. The little park nearby is great in summer, especially with kids. It's also my designated running area, each lap is about 1 kilometer :)
14 locals recommend
Gasometer Schoneberg
15B EUREF-Campus
14 locals recommend
This old gas storage is a Schöneberg landmark. The little park nearby is great in summer, especially with kids. It's also my designated running area, each lap is about 1 kilometer :)
This is Berlin's highest peak - at a dazzling 115m above sea level it offers spectacular views. Bonus: It consists entirely of WWII rubble and boasts an old US communications intercept station on top!
239 locals recommend
Teufelsberg
10 Teufelsseechaussee
239 locals recommend
This is Berlin's highest peak - at a dazzling 115m above sea level it offers spectacular views. Bonus: It consists entirely of WWII rubble and boasts an old US communications intercept station on top!
Well, it's the Brandenburg Gate, nuff said.
681 locals recommend
Brandenburg Gate
Pariser Platz
681 locals recommend
Well, it's the Brandenburg Gate, nuff said.
Another Berlin must-see.
387 locals recommend
Reichstag Building
1 Platz der Republik
387 locals recommend
Another Berlin must-see.
This magical place used to be an amusement park that went bankrupt years ago. Now it's this overgrown wonderland that you might actually know from the movie "Hanna".
57 locals recommend
Spreepark
1-3 Kiehnwerderallee
57 locals recommend
This magical place used to be an amusement park that went bankrupt years ago. Now it's this overgrown wonderland that you might actually know from the movie "Hanna".
Beautifully sculpted park and castle out in Potsdam, only a few train stops outside of Berlin.
Relexa Schlosshotel Cecilienhof
Am Neuen Garten
Beautifully sculpted park and castle out in Potsdam, only a few train stops outside of Berlin.