Boutique hotels in Berlin
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Lux 11
- Style
- White lines blowin’ through my mind
- Setting
- Mittel Mitte
Berlin Food and drink
We've tracked down the best cafés for people-watching, the bars with the coolest cocktails, the most accomplished restaurants and the liveliest local nightlife in Berlin.
Eating, drinking and dancing
We've tracked down the best cafés for people-watching, the bars with the coolest cocktails, the most accomplished restaurants and the liveliest local nightlife in Berlin.
Restaurants
(+49 (0)30 2175 1646)
Alpenstück
Who'd have thought you could indulge in hearty southern German cuisine such as sausages, sauerkraut and schnitzel in a stylish environment? There’s not a heaving dirndl in sight.
9 Gartenstrasse, D-10115 Berlin
(+49 (0)30 2859 8585)
Brecht’s
This bistro-style restaurant down by the river on Schiffbauerdamm specialises in Austrian cuisine. Try its veal sausages or gnocchi in a creamy cheese sauce.
6–7 Schiffbauerdamm, D-10117 Berlin
(+49 (0)30 2265 2611)
Margaux
Young Michelin-starred chef Michael Hoffman does astonishing things with seafood at this hip Unter den Linden hangout.
78 Unter den Linden, D-10117 Berlin
(+49 (0)30 211 1182)
Susuru
Just along Rosa Luxemburg Strasse from Lux 11, Susuru is an excellent Japanese noodle bar with chic decor. Its udon selection makes for a good lunch option.
17 Rosa Luxemburg Strasse, D-10178 Berlin
+49 (0)30 615 2810
Engelbecken
Kitsch Bavarian-style eatery, which stops just short of lederhosen and oompah bands. The menu, however, is excellent – and you’ll find everything from veal sausage and sauerkraut to piping-hot apfelstrudel here.
31 Witzlebenstrasse, D-72413 Berlin
(+49 (0)30 442 9229)
Gugelhof
Wonderful Alsatian restaurant (as in the region, not the dog) that specialises in sturdy choucroute and tartes flambées. Bill Clinton stopped by a few years ago…
37 Knaackstrasse, D-10435 Berlin
+49 (0)30 612 5170
Abendmahl
Set in the middle of Kreuzberg’s Turkish quarter, Abendmahl is perhaps the city’s finest vegetarian restaurant. It also serves fish.
9 Muskauer Strasse, D-10997 Berlin
(+49 (0)30 214050)
Die Quadriga
One of Berlin’s finest restaurants, this is where chef Bobby Bräuer serves up Michelin-starred cuisine to a sophisticated, urbane crowd. The 1920s-inspired interiors are beautiful, too.
14 Eislebener Strasse, D-10789 Berlin
Cafés
+49 (0)30 261 5096
Café Einstein Stammhaus
An old-fashioned but elegant Viennnese coffee house in Tiergarten, this airy café serves up schnitzels and noodles against a backdrop of mahogany and oversized mirrors.
58 Kurfurstenstrasse, D-10785 Berlin
(+49 (0)30 614 2373)
Hasir
It may be the post-pub, pre-brawl food of choice in the UK, but the doner kebab is a far more acceptable snack in Germany. The combination of pitta and sliced meat was invented here, at Hasir, in 1971 by owner Mehmet Aygun.
10 Adalbertstrasse, D-10999 Berlin
(+49 (0)30 7895 7900)
Café Neues Ufer
This long-established gay and lesbian hangout near Heinrich Von Kleist Park in Schöneberg was a favourite of David Bowie and Lou Reed when they shared an apartment next door in the 1970s. It’s still an atmospheric haunt.
157 Hauptstrasse, D-10827 Berlin
Bars and clubs
(+49 (0)30 2809 3840)
Altes Europa
Drink in the evening at this atmospheric café bar with an old-fashioned ambience. Dress up – it's frequented by Berlin’s beautiful people.
11 Gipsstrasse, D-10119 Berlin
(+49 (0)30 448 5688)
Prater
The city’s favourite spot for an alfresco drink when the weather’s fine. The tree-shaded garden fills up quickly in summer with fashionable Berliners who come here for cocktails and food – and for a nightclub called ‘Bastard’.
7–9 Kastanienallee, D-10435 Berlin
(+49 (0)30 2838 7676)
Reingold
A long room dominated by a Thirties-inspired mural at the far end, this stylish Mitte cocktail bar serves up delicious concoctions to a hip thirtysomething crowd. Low-key techno with a Latin bent is the soundtrack of choice.
11 Novalisstrasse, D-10115 Berlin
+49 (0)30 7889 9704
KitKat Club
Perhaps the best known – courtesy of its namecheck in Cabaret – of Berlin’s numerous sex clubs. This is the place to come for fetish parties and to meet other liberal (and we’re talking extremely liberal) consenting adults.
2–14 Bessemer Strasse, D-10179 Berlin