Cool Places to Eat & Drink in Berlin

12 places you must eat and drink at in Berlin.

Berlin, Germany

Tajikistan Tearoom

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

Burgermeister at night, sailor's delight

Berlin, Germany

Burgermeister

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

Berlin, Germany

Prinzessinnengarten

Berliners converted a bombed-out, disused lot into a community-run urban farm with its own cafe and bar.

Late afternoon coffee and cake.

Berlin, Germany

Café Strauss

Berliners take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

Oberhafenkantine Berlin at its current location at Arena Berlin

Berlin, Germany

Oberhafenkantine Berlin

A portable, wooden replica (minus the hyphen) of Hamburg’s iconic crooked coffee shop.

A cocktail made with Waldmeister, the "forest master" known in English as sweet woodruff.

Berlin, Germany

Velvet

Taste freshly foraged yarrow and black locust blossoms at this ambitious cocktail bar.

The disco ball-bedecked upstairs is a perfect place to read.

Berlin, Germany

Schwarzes Café

Dine at a legendary after-hours joint frequented by David Bowie and Iggy Pop.

Memorial plaque

Berlin, Germany

Herta Heuwer Currywurst Memorial

A plaque on the side of a building is a small tribute to the woman who invented an iconic Berlin fast food.

The entrance to Konditorei Buchwald.

Berlin, Germany

Konditorei Buchwald

For more than 170 years, this family-run bakery has been serving Berlin’s best Baumkuchen, or “tree cake.”

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The Currywurst Museum.

Berlin, Germany

Deutsches Currywurst Museum

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.

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Böhmisches Brauhaus

Berlin, Germany

Böhmisches Brauhaus

The abandoned remains of this Victorian brewery hide crumbling bowling alleys and rusting industrial gear.

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Berlin, Germany

Zucker-Museum

A sweet museum focused on beets.