This place stocks the best and most potent absinthes from across the world - including, of course, the good Czech stuff. If you're lucky the owner might even invite you for a...

This young Swedish brand has a huge following. Its Berlin flagship store is the first outside of Scandinavia and features the label's complete seasonal collections of men's and...

One of Berlin's more established independent labels, selling minimalist, clean-lined clothes.

Three concept shops hidden in a courtyard behind the Acne store, AM 1-3 offer a reverently presented selection of cutting-edge, luxury designers, many of them local. The shop...

Sells a huge variety of stuff emblazoned with the old East's enduring symbol, the jaunty red and green traffic-light men - these days weirdly proliferating in West Berlin too.

An impressive second-hand bookshop mostly used as a library, Another Country is stocked with about 20,000 English-language titles that can be borrowed or bought. The spacious,...

Unmarked and entirely empty, Apartment's huge white-box storefront is easy to miss. But head down to the basement and you'll find clothing, accessories and shoes from hot local...

Tucked into the Hackesche Höfe, this art bookshop specialises in 20th-century culture, stocking titles on everything from photography to dance, design to film, architecture to...

This label, artist management office and record store specialises in Gypsy and other music from Poland, Romania, Serbia, Turkey, Bulgaria and elsewhere. One of the best places...

Luxurious five-floor complex with a health and beauty centre, 25m pool, saunas, steam room, ice room, restaurants, bars, sun terrace with solariums and a view of central...

Painter and potter Hinrich Kröger lovingly crafts vases, decorative wall plates, bowls, cups and other ceramics and hand paints them with erotic motifs.

Very cool shop for any and everything 'aus Berlin'. Innovative and design-happy like the city itself, this place sells everything from flashy books to Berlin-themed plasters,...

Toys and DVDs and a revamped gay porn cinema too. Popular place to buy poppers this side of town.

This colourful shop is full of handbags hip and bright, plain or clubby, with prices starting at €35.