This popular commercial operation features a former barge converted into a heated swimming pool, docked on the banks of the Spree. It belongs to the Arena Berlin cultural...

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...

Set on an inlet off the Spree just over the border from Kreuzberg, this popular timbered bar occupies an old boathouse, several floating docks and a decommissioned boat. The...

This 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...

In the back room of a tiny gallery, this bar has the air of a well-kept secret. The room is painted in deep, rich colours with a beautiful ship-like bar designed by Hans...

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...

Best known as home of the popular twice-monthly Russendisko, Kaffee Burger's programme runs the cultural gamut. Early evenings may see readings, lectures, film screenings or...

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...

Minimal, minimal, minimal! This place perfectly captures that unfinished - and inexplicably sexy - look with which Berlin's fashionable set is so enamoured. Kim has been a...

Above a music school and accessed via a wobbly staircase in the courtyard, this spacious bar manages to mix the best of the retro design craze with the sort of lively revelry...

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...

Though a little past its heyday, this speakeasy-style bar remains one of Berlin's finest and friendliest institutions. It's decorated with original 1950s Americana and rock 'n'...

Almost any evening, this huge and immaculately restored swing-era bar, across the courtyard from the theatre of the same name, attracts a smart, high-volume crowd. The...

This sleekly designed bar, a favourite with local creative types, aims for a sophistication more common in cities like New York and Paris. It's worth checking out for the...