Tacky and camp, with lots of dolls and pictures of drag queens adorning the walls, the BarbieBar is also a stylish place, with comfortable easy chairs and quiet music, which...
Mehringdamm 77This impeccably designed store - Berlin's answer to Colette in Paris - offers a select mix of men's and women's fashion, accessories, electronics, books, music, art and even...
Französische Strasse 40The upbeat El Sur Bar offers Iberian culture à la carte - a decent range of tropical cocktails, tapas and great wines are spiced up with live Spanish and Portuguese sounds.
Pohlstrasse 73Well-run and friendly bar where the staff are expert cocktail-shakers, the music's hip and tasteful in a trancey kind of way, and the back room, equipped with a sushi bar, is a...
Arndtstrasse 25A small, stylish bar and café with a neighbourly atmosphere and a gimmick. You can buy the chairs you're sitting on, the table you're eating from, that fork you're holding, the...
Gärtnerstrasse 4This oddly whimsical bar and café, a bit rough around the edges, is the linchpin of Oranienstrasse's renaissance as a hip destination for young Berliners. The simultaneously...
Oranienstrasse 34This café/bar on Boxhagener Platz brands itself a 'Leseplatz' (reading place) and it's perfect for just that. Kitted out, like so many Berlin cafés, with fraying but still...
Gärtnerstrasse 14With over a hundred whiskies, and frescoes detailing a lascivious pageant of falling angels and clerical inebriation, this bar and café offers a friendly vantage on the...
Wiener Strasse 22'Mother' tries to do everything at once: two bars; an enormous selection of wines, beers and cocktails; breakfasts until 6pm; a sushi bar from 6pm, plus other snacks throughout...
Hohenstaufenstrasse 4Top international bowling competitions are hosted at this 28-lane facility, which also has 12 lanes for children, a bar/restaurant and two rooms reserved for those who fancy a...
Hasenheide 107-109Unwilling 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...
Stargarder Strasse 10Possibly the most popular bar on Kastanienallee and currently the main meeting place for those who inhabit the twilight zone between Prenzlauer Berg and Mitte. Odd, then, that...
Kastanienallee 13Tennis, squash and badminton courts, plus a sauna, solarium, restaurant and beer garden. Coaching is available for all three sports, along with aerobics and classical dance. If...
Brandenburgische Strasse 53