Run by celebrity drag queen Lena Braun (star of the fashionable documentary Gender X), this lively and unusual bar attracts both the more bourgeois members of Berlin's...

With its clutter of mirror balls, salvaged airplane and car seats, this bar, alternative art gallery and indie-rock venue embodies some of the most fun aspects of Berlin...

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...

A diverse crowd in both age and nationality - the hostel across the street lends a youthful international air - mills about in this lounge that comes with old easy chairs,...

A schizophrenic but stylish café/bar on two floors: the pink palace at street level could only attract the unashamedly camp while rowdy lesbians roll around on leopard-skin...

It might not be the first place you'd think to go raving, but, thanks to a westward-drifting scene and its eclectic policies, the Festsaal has become one of Kreuzberg's most...

Well-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...

Originally opened in 1993, Junction Bar is a Kreuzberg landmark that arranges 365 concerts a year of everything from jazz and swing to rock, with DJs keeping the party going...

This 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...

With 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...

The cobbles, tree-lined streets and general peace and quiet make the Graefekiez one of the city's most pleasant neighbourhoods, and Matilda fits in perfectly. It's small and...

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...

Decent all-purpose Irish pub with draught Guinness and Kilkenny, a big selection of hearty meals, plenty of TVs for watching British and Irish football and rugby matches, a...

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...