Located smack dab in touristy Hackescher Markt and decorated with enormous photo prints of 1960s and '70s icons, Bang Bang is a small yet inviting club and...
Neue Promenade 10The club's name, a nod to funk legend Hamilton Bohannon, indicates its driving musical principle. Billed as offering 'soulful electronic clubbing', this...
Dircksenstrasse 40A 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...
Schlesische Strasse 32
On an inlet off the Spree just over the border into Treptow, this popular timbered bar occupies an old boathouse, several floating docks and a...
Am Flutgraben 1The name means strawberry, and this dark, spacious (and a bit dingy) bar off Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz has earned a reputation for its powerful and delicious...
Max-Beer-Strasse 56Festsaal means 'ballroom' and this venue near Kottbusser Tor has quite a refined edge despite the shabbiness of the interior, reinforced by a regular...
Skalitzer Strasse 130Not a dive, but certainly not fancy, Habermeyer is where local hipsters go for low-key drinks, casual conversation, table football, and a marked absence of...
Gärtnerstrasse 6
Best known as home of the popular twice-monthly Russendisko, Kaffee Burger's programme runs the cultural gamut. Early evenings may see readings, film...
Torstrasse 60
Kim perfectly captures that unfinished look with which Berlin's fashionable set is so enamoured. Kim has been a favourite since it opened in 2007. The door...
Brunnenstrasse 10
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...
Pappelallee 81It'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...
Reichenberger Strasse 177NYC Mudd Club founder Steve Mass has rebirthed his venture in a brick-lined Berlin basement that resounds to Russendisko rather than No Wave. Indeed, Mudd...
Grosse Hamburger Strasse 17This 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...
Schlesische Strasse 35This hidden gem overlooking the scruffy urban spectacle that is Kottbusser Tor is a bookend kind of hangout; you either start here before hitting the clubs...
Skalitzer Strasse 135Navigate your way through to the third courtyard of the former Koenigstadt brewery and you'll find Roadrunner's tucked away in the corner next to a...
Saarbrückerstrasse 24