Most Indian restaurants in Berlin seem to offer more or less the same menu. This one can be forgiven, as it was the first to open. More than 20 years later, it's still one of...

Across from the Technical University and usually packed with students drinking coffee. Simple, decent pasta, salads and sandwiches at reasonable prices.

The café of the Literaturhaus, which has lectures, readings and a bookshop. The greenhouse-like winter garden or salon rooms are great for ducking into a book over breakfast or...

Now under the sway of hot young chef Mathias Bucholz, this is the place to come for refined French/European cuisine such as Bresse pigeon served with chanterelles and a ragout...

Florian has served fine south German food on this quietly posh street for a couple of decades now. The cooking is hearty, the service impeccable. Yes, staff will put you in...

Enter the Jewish Community Centre through airport-style security and head one floor up to this excellent kosher restaurant. Expect a full range of Jewish central and east...

A decent, upmarket restaurant that draws a mixed crowd of Georgian and Russian expats, with a few Germans and tourists for good measure. Expect plum sauces, walnuts and...

Julep's gets the fusion flavours of contemporary American cuisine just right with an array of imaginative dishes such as duck prosciutto or quesadillas with rhubarb and apple...

Exquisite tortes and fruit cakes are served upstairs in the high-ceilinged café. Tempting mounds of truffles and bonbons are sold downstairs in the shop.

There aren't many places like Marjellchen around any more. It serves specialities from East Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia in an atmosphere of old-fashioned Gemütlichkeit. The...

Owner Michel Wurthle's friendship with Martin Kippenberger and other artists is obvious from the art hanging on every available inch of wall and ceiling. Paris Bar, with its...

New chef Danijel Kresovic offers an international menu that fuses European ideas with more exotic flavours in dishes such as monkfish with curry spices, prawn chiboust and...

This was Berlin's first kaiten (conveyor belt) sushi joint. It's invariably packed with upmarket thirtysomethings, plucking the scrummy morsels as they circumnavigate a chrome...

Open all hours for breakfasts and meals, Schwarzes Café was once all black and anarchistically inclined (hence the name), but the political crowd moved on decades ago and the...