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...

Just doors apart, what ties these two establishments together - aside from their shared reception desk - is a wonderfully realised 'modernised colonial' style. In Ackselhaus...

Karl Wannemacher combines classic German and French flavours with Asian influences in a wonderfully romantic dining room. Sample such wonders as horseradish terrine with smoked...

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...

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,...

Berlin's own cinematheque continues to offer up brazenly eclectic programming, ranging from classic Hollywood to contemporary Middle Eastern cinema, from Russian art films to...

A truly remarkable place, and brilliantly over the top. What was recently a car dealership on the Spree has been converted into a hotel and day spa (Berlin's best, according to...

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...

Housed in a restored landmark building by Hans Poelzig, the former Filmkunsthaus Babylon recently reinvented itself with a much more active programming policy. While it...

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...

Some of Berlin's most celebrated entertainers perform in this snazzy circus tent of many mirrors - the programme includes shows, comedy, cabaret, literature and theatre. You...

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...

Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus school, designed the elegant white building that now houses this absorbing design museum. The permanent exhibition presents furniture,...

A strong contender for best club in the city, if not Europe; words can't really do the place justice. In basic terms, it's a techno club in a former power station, but it has...