Set on an inlet off the Spree just over the border from Kreuzberg, this popular timbered bar occupies an old boathouse, several floating docks and a decommissioned boat. The...

The name means strawberry in German, and this dark, spacious (and a bit dingy) bar off Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz has earned a reputation for its powerful and delicious fresh fruit...

Not a dive, but certainly not fancy, Habermeyer is where local hipsters go for low-key drinks, casual conversation, table football, and a marked absence of the teenagers and...

Minimal, minimal, minimal! This place perfectly captures that unfinished - and inexplicably sexy - look with which Berlin's fashionable set is so enamoured. Kim has been a...

Above a music school and accessed via a wobbly staircase in the courtyard, this spacious bar manages to mix the best of the retro design craze with the sort of lively revelry...

It's an odd location for a gay bar, wedged among Turkish snack bars in a down-at-heel 1960s development at Kottbusser Tor and visible to the world through picture windows on...

This small, dark bar draws a mixed local crowd and doesn't get going until late. The spartan interior boasts old, small, poker-like tables and stiff wooden chairs. Except for a...

Unwilling to endure identikit Irish pubs or brave grumpy local Eck-Kneipen (corner pubs)? Schwalbe is about as chi-chi as a football bar gets, offering German and Italian...

Having opened in the early 1990s as a semi-legal bolthole fronting a lively squat, Supamolly (or Supamolli) is a miracle of survival. The frequent live punk and ska shows in...

A narrow, darkish bar equipped with booths and a well-abused table football table, Wiener Blut sometimes features DJs who fill the place with wild beats and wild friends....

Small bar with a funky vibe and occasional DJs. It can get packed between 10pm and 2am; visit later, when the crowd has thinned.