A 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...

The low-domed ceiling, plastic furniture and coloured neon are like a cross between cocktail bar and space capsule. Around midnight, the beautiful young things start dribbling...

This French bohemian bar, with lots of sofas, bright colours and a comfortingly ramshackle feel, is a new Friedrichshain favourite. The highlight is a selection of delicious,...

This 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...

The premier venue for hipper live acts not quite ready for Columbiahalle also hosts dance nights that, although drawing top-notch DJs, don't come off very glam in Maria's...

In 1999, Monster Ronson - aka Ron Rineck - moved to Berlin from Salt Lake City with $7,000 in his pocket. As his savings dwindled, he began sleeping in his car, bought a...

The cosy interiors of Oxident host everything from rock and pop to choral and even polka, while the rooftop terrace and beer garden also screen matinée movies and put on DJs....

Neither a typical heavy metal bar nor remotely typical for this area, the Egyptian-themed Eck attracts a young crowd with relentless metal videos, a decent selection of beers...

If you were asked to think of the typical Berlin club then something like Rosi's would no doubt spring to mind. It's a tumbledown, DIY affair; all bare bricks and mismatched...

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...