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Guidebook for Berlin

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Healthy food, fresh smoothies, yummie cakes and finest coffee in town!
75 locals recommend
goodies Berlin
69 Warschauer Str.
75 locals recommend
Healthy food, fresh smoothies, yummie cakes and finest coffee in town!
Very nice and delicious russian food for fair prices. Especially good are their pine-nut and birch-blossom wodkas.
23 locals recommend
Matreshka
60 Boxhagener Str.
23 locals recommend
Very nice and delicious russian food for fair prices. Especially good are their pine-nut and birch-blossom wodkas.
Best Pizza in town...
226 locals recommend
Il Ritrovo - Cucina Casalinga Popolare
2 Gabriel-Max-Straße
226 locals recommend
Best Pizza in town...
Always worth a recommendation. Local dishes representing Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia are on the short menu, supplemented with 4-6 daily specials. Fair prices.
24 locals recommend
Lemon Leaf
69 Grünberger Straße
24 locals recommend
Always worth a recommendation. Local dishes representing Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia are on the short menu, supplemented with 4-6 daily specials. Fair prices.
Yoyo is truly as good as it gets for vegetarian fast food. There are about a hundred burger options and plenty of other tasty specials to choose from for very fair prices.
30 locals recommend
Yoyo Foodworld
27 Gärtnerstraße
30 locals recommend
Yoyo is truly as good as it gets for vegetarian fast food. There are about a hundred burger options and plenty of other tasty specials to choose from for very fair prices.
Bateau Ivre right in the middle of the happening Kreuzberg street, Oranienstr. is a wonderful place especially on a sunny day. You should bring some time and don´t take the service staff too serious;)
59 locals recommend
Bateau Ivre
18 Oranienstraße
59 locals recommend
Bateau Ivre right in the middle of the happening Kreuzberg street, Oranienstr. is a wonderful place especially on a sunny day. You should bring some time and don´t take the service staff too serious;)
Simple goodness. Go there, get a "halloumi" or a "nil chicken" for a few coins. Highly recommended!
36 locals recommend
Nil
52 Grünberger Str.
36 locals recommend
Simple goodness. Go there, get a "halloumi" or a "nil chicken" for a few coins. Highly recommended!
Recently discovered - best burger and organic fries in town...fair prices and never too crowded.
14 locals recommend
Frittiersalon
104 Boxhagener Straße
14 locals recommend
Recently discovered - best burger and organic fries in town...fair prices and never too crowded.
Great selections of bagels, freshly pressed juices, best bircher muesli! Coffee isn't worth a visit itself, but all of the food makes a great breakfast or snack to get new energy!
49 locals recommend
Wahrhaft Nahrhaft
16 Revaler Str.
49 locals recommend
Great selections of bagels, freshly pressed juices, best bircher muesli! Coffee isn't worth a visit itself, but all of the food makes a great breakfast or snack to get new energy!
a lovely 3rd wave coffeeshop with surely the best new york cheese cake in town! my favorite combo: cortado & blueberry pie - yummy!
177 locals recommend
Five Elephant Kreuzberg
101 Reichenberger Str.
177 locals recommend
a lovely 3rd wave coffeeshop with surely the best new york cheese cake in town! my favorite combo: cortado & blueberry pie - yummy!
Best curry sausage in town - for two people: take the couples' menue, that plenty!
Grünberger Str. 66
66 Grünberger Straße
Best curry sausage in town - for two people: take the couples' menue, that plenty!
Great and authentic Sri Lankan restaurant restaurant. Interesting combination of spices, traditional dishes, be sure to make a reservation!
10 locals recommend
Sigiriya
66 Grünberger Str.
10 locals recommend
Great and authentic Sri Lankan restaurant restaurant. Interesting combination of spices, traditional dishes, be sure to make a reservation!
Lovely café with awesome interior. Good coffee, great cakes and short bread, great selection of magazines.
108 locals recommend
Aunt Benny
108 locals recommend
Lovely café with awesome interior. Good coffee, great cakes and short bread, great selection of magazines.
Splendid coffee - another great 3rd wave coffee place!
67 locals recommend
Chapter One Coffee
30 Mittenwalder Str.
67 locals recommend
Splendid coffee - another great 3rd wave coffee place!
Some of the best cakes, this place serves. Be sure to have the chocolate devil's cake and the apple pie - the best!!!
57 locals recommend
Barcomis Deli
21 Sophienstraße
57 locals recommend
Some of the best cakes, this place serves. Be sure to have the chocolate devil's cake and the apple pie - the best!!!
Austrian restaurant, great authentic food, great interior, not expensive.
50 locals recommend
Mutzenbacher Restaurant
11 Libauer Str.
50 locals recommend
Austrian restaurant, great authentic food, great interior, not expensive.
get a hand on the best ice cream in Friedrichshain here- they also have lots of vegan ice cream
Eismanufaktur Eiscafé
get a hand on the best ice cream in Friedrichshain here- they also have lots of vegan ice cream
serving vegetarian/vegan food, cakes, and fresh juices- the house quiche is just amazing and also is their cold brewed coffee.
Sonntagstraße 26
26 Sonntagstraße
serving vegetarian/vegan food, cakes, and fresh juices- the house quiche is just amazing and also is their cold brewed coffee.
The new hotspot for foodies!! Every sunday from 12-22. 20 stands, food trucks, Djs providing amazing food in a great athmosphere in one of the urban islands of Berlin.
6 locals recommend
Revaler Straße 99
6 locals recommend
The new hotspot for foodies!! Every sunday from 12-22. 20 stands, food trucks, Djs providing amazing food in a great athmosphere in one of the urban islands of Berlin.
The Bowl is Berlin's first clean-eating restaurant in addition to being vegan and 100% organic. This is without a doubt the place of call for foodies who are into fresh, natural food.
36 locals recommend
The Bowl
33 Warschauer Straße
36 locals recommend
The Bowl is Berlin's first clean-eating restaurant in addition to being vegan and 100% organic. This is without a doubt the place of call for foodies who are into fresh, natural food.
One of the top adresses for having a proper burger in the neighborhood.Famous for their home-made sweet potato fries and their own bakery where the tasty burger buns with extra sesame on top come from
253 locals recommend
Schiller Burger
253 locals recommend
One of the top adresses for having a proper burger in the neighborhood.Famous for their home-made sweet potato fries and their own bakery where the tasty burger buns with extra sesame on top come from
Silo is a local staple. And if the spacious wooden tables and the wall-mounted bike didn’t already convey the café’s Melbourne spirit and the first sip of your flat white certainly should...
124 locals recommend
Silo Coffee
4 Gabriel-Max-Straße
124 locals recommend
Silo is a local staple. And if the spacious wooden tables and the wall-mounted bike didn’t already convey the café’s Melbourne spirit and the first sip of your flat white certainly should...
The best Thai Restaurant in the area...
85 locals recommend
Chay Village
10 Niederbarnimstraße
85 locals recommend
The best Thai Restaurant in the area...

Drinks & Nightlife

New bar next house. Really nice atmosphere and a variety of music events. Big beer 2,50€...
66 locals recommend
Fitcher's Vogel
26 Warschauer Str.
66 locals recommend
New bar next house. Really nice atmosphere and a variety of music events. Big beer 2,50€...
quoted from their website: "Whiskey or water. Cake or Gulash Soup. Beer or Espresso. Read a book, surf the net, talk to Gerd, play the grand piano or dream about your future." Amen!
41 locals recommend
Michelberger Hotel
39-40 Warschauer Str.
41 locals recommend
quoted from their website: "Whiskey or water. Cake or Gulash Soup. Beer or Espresso. Read a book, surf the net, talk to Gerd, play the grand piano or dream about your future." Amen!
Nice retro-futuristic interior design, good cocktails and a broad variety of played music, from 60´s over deep house to drum and bass
Künstliche BEATmung
20 Simon-Dach-Straße
Nice retro-futuristic interior design, good cocktails and a broad variety of played music, from 60´s over deep house to drum and bass
Great Beer Garden, run by the Berghain people - right next to the world famous club, this outdoor bar has a special, rough yet extremely cozy atmosphere to it. A must in the summertime!
15 locals recommend
Bierhof Rüdersdorf
Am Wriezener Bahnhof
15 locals recommend
Great Beer Garden, run by the Berghain people - right next to the world famous club, this outdoor bar has a special, rough yet extremely cozy atmosphere to it. A must in the summertime!
When the same old thing just won’t do, head to Barley and Hops! You’ll find great beer brewed the old-fashioned way, award-winning food, and a friendly atmosphere ;)
99 locals recommend
Hops & Barley
22/23 Wühlischstraße
99 locals recommend
When the same old thing just won’t do, head to Barley and Hops! You’ll find great beer brewed the old-fashioned way, award-winning food, and a friendly atmosphere ;)

Everything Else

You should have heard of it ;)
934 locals recommend
Panorama Bar
Am Wriezener Bahnhof
934 locals recommend
You should have heard of it ;)
Watergate is a two-room club overlooking the River Spree. Located on the river's edge with floor-to-ceiling glass windows, it offers a panoramic view of the Spree as the club night winds down.
349 locals recommend
Watergate
49 Falckensteinstraße
349 locals recommend
Watergate is a two-room club overlooking the River Spree. Located on the river's edge with floor-to-ceiling glass windows, it offers a panoramic view of the Spree as the club night winds down.
The central chill-out meadow of the neighborhood provides lots of bars, cafés, restaurants and takeaways around. Highlight is sundays flea market, when people from all lifestyles melt together there..
418 locals recommend
Boxhagener Platz
75 Grünberger Str.
418 locals recommend
The central chill-out meadow of the neighborhood provides lots of bars, cafés, restaurants and takeaways around. Highlight is sundays flea market, when people from all lifestyles melt together there..
Really beautiful green park with an open air cinema, boulder walls, a sand court to play beach volleyball.Nice to waste a day reading or sunbathing,or to spend an evening with friends having barbecue.
913 locals recommend
Volkspark Friedrichshain
913 locals recommend
Really beautiful green park with an open air cinema, boulder walls, a sand court to play beach volleyball.Nice to waste a day reading or sunbathing,or to spend an evening with friends having barbecue.
Bikram Yoga studio to strech body and soul just around the corner..
Sun Yoga
7 Torellstraße
Bikram Yoga studio to strech body and soul just around the corner..
Street Food Thursday is an enormous feast of eclectic food from around the globe brought to you weekly by Markthalle Neun- an institution for all Foodies
8 locals recommend
Street Food Thursday
8 locals recommend
Street Food Thursday is an enormous feast of eclectic food from around the globe brought to you weekly by Markthalle Neun- an institution for all Foodies
One of Berlins most popular urban gardening projects, which has expanded to an open air garden space with a cafe, serving ecological food. Their soups are just amazing!
123 locals recommend
Princess Garden
35-38 Prinzenstraße
123 locals recommend
One of Berlins most popular urban gardening projects, which has expanded to an open air garden space with a cafe, serving ecological food. Their soups are just amazing!

Sightseeing

The Berlin Wall East Side Gallery is a 1.3km-long section of the wall. Approximately 106 paintings by artists cover this memorial and make it the largest open air gallery in the world.
808 locals recommend
East Side Gallery
3-100 Mühlenstraße
808 locals recommend
The Berlin Wall East Side Gallery is a 1.3km-long section of the wall. Approximately 106 paintings by artists cover this memorial and make it the largest open air gallery in the world.

Arts & Culture

Intimes is a small cosy art-house cinema. From monday-wednesday movies cost 3,50€. Unfortunately the shown movies are mostly dubbed german...It has a café as well
59 locals recommend
Kino Intimes
107 Boxhagener Str.
59 locals recommend
Intimes is a small cosy art-house cinema. From monday-wednesday movies cost 3,50€. Unfortunately the shown movies are mostly dubbed german...It has a café as well
Since summer 2007 the museum shows a significant part of its large and rarely exhibited collection of design and everyday culture of the 20th century in an "Open Storage" presentation.
18 locals recommend
Werkbundarchiv – museum of things
54 Oranienstraße
18 locals recommend
Since summer 2007 the museum shows a significant part of its large and rarely exhibited collection of design and everyday culture of the 20th century in an "Open Storage" presentation.
The "Philophon Night" every monday offers live jazz and more,from the roots to outer spaceways.A growing workshop ensemble playing music by Duke Ellington,Sun Ra and their own compositions. entry 7/5€
Theaterkapelle
The "Philophon Night" every monday offers live jazz and more,from the roots to outer spaceways.A growing workshop ensemble playing music by Duke Ellington,Sun Ra and their own compositions. entry 7/5€
The Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin presides over a comprehensive collection of contemporary art, which it presents in a variety of exhibitions.
354 locals recommend
Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin
50 Invalidenstraße
354 locals recommend
The Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin presides over a comprehensive collection of contemporary art, which it presents in a variety of exhibitions.
The Martin-Gropius-Bau is Berlin's main exhibition hall and is one of the world’s leading exhibition venues.
236 locals recommend
Gropius Building
7 Niederkirchnerstraße
236 locals recommend
The Martin-Gropius-Bau is Berlin's main exhibition hall and is one of the world’s leading exhibition venues.
The Topography of Terror is an outdoor and indoor history museum for the documentation of Nazi crimes.
119 locals recommend
Topography of Terror
8 Niederkirchnerstraße
119 locals recommend
The Topography of Terror is an outdoor and indoor history museum for the documentation of Nazi crimes.
Auguststraße in Berlin-Mitte has been able to establish itself as a gallery district. Exhibition rooms such as the Kunst-Werke Berlin have enjoyed a great deal of international attention.
50 locals recommend
Auguststrasse
Auguststraße
50 locals recommend
Auguststraße in Berlin-Mitte has been able to establish itself as a gallery district. Exhibition rooms such as the Kunst-Werke Berlin have enjoyed a great deal of international attention.
The opening of this summer in our neighborhood so far!!Haubentaucher-urban pool and sundeck..The nearest pool in a stunning location.
84 locals recommend
Haubentaucher
99 Revaler Str.
84 locals recommend
The opening of this summer in our neighborhood so far!!Haubentaucher-urban pool and sundeck..The nearest pool in a stunning location.
C/O Berlin has been presenting a lively cultural program of international stature.It is an exhibition centre for photography and presents the work of renowned artists.Sebastião Salgado "Genesis"-16/08
175 locals recommend
C/O Berlin
22-24 Hardenbergstraße
175 locals recommend
C/O Berlin has been presenting a lively cultural program of international stature.It is an exhibition centre for photography and presents the work of renowned artists.Sebastião Salgado "Genesis"-16/08

Shopping

Rent a bike here for fair conditions: per day: 8,- Euro from 3 days 6,- Euro per day from 8 days 5,- Euro per day
6 locals recommend
Fahrradcenter Friedrichshain
22 Kopernikusstraße
6 locals recommend
Rent a bike here for fair conditions: per day: 8,- Euro from 3 days 6,- Euro per day from 8 days 5,- Euro per day
Beautiful and affordable Vintage clothing from the 50's through to the 90's on 3 floors!
87 locals recommend
HUMANA Secondhand & Vintage Kaufhaus
3 Frankfurter Tor
87 locals recommend
Beautiful and affordable Vintage clothing from the 50's through to the 90's on 3 floors!
A hip store with a nice selection of hip hop and electronic music vinyls and street wear.
51 locals recommend
Oderberger Straße
Oderberger Straße
51 locals recommend
A hip store with a nice selection of hip hop and electronic music vinyls and street wear.
THE specialist for foodwear in the neighborhood.
FUSSGARAGE
THE specialist for foodwear in the neighborhood.

Essentials

Organic super market right across from our house. A big variety of healthy, yummy food.
13 locals recommend
viv BioFrischeMarkt
63 Warschauer Str.
13 locals recommend
Organic super market right across from our house. A big variety of healthy, yummy food.
Weekly fruit and vegetable market, every tuesday&friday. Extremely cheap food. Great atmosphere in the summertime, people hang out by the canal, street musicians all around - makes a great afternoon!
300 locals recommend
Turkish Market (Tuesday/Friday)
300 locals recommend
Weekly fruit and vegetable market, every tuesday&friday. Extremely cheap food. Great atmosphere in the summertime, people hang out by the canal, street musicians all around - makes a great afternoon!