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...

A strong contender for best club in the city, if not Europe. In basic terms, it's a techno club in a former power station, but it has to be experienced to...

The club's name, a nod to funk legend Hamilton Bohannon, indicates its driving musical principle. Billed as offering 'soulful electronic clubbing', this...

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...

A massive complex, containing a cinema, theatre and gallery, operated by a friendly Berlin arts collective. There's also a party floor with a playlist...

This sprawling venue appears to have been constructed by throwing a collection of rooms and industrial rubbish up into the air and seeing where it all...

This old-school dancehall has been frequented by nimble-footed Berliners since it opened in 1913, and under new management is now more popular than ever....

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...

Dice Club has cleverly taken up residence in a disused DDR transformer station not far from Alexanderplatz. But it doesn't aspire to be another pilled-out...

Die Busche is an East German gay relic: loud, tacky, mixed and packed, this is one of east Berlin's oldest discos and is full of loutish lesbians, gay teens...

Duncker does have a reasonably varied line-up but definitely operates within a very dark sphere. It's perfectly located in a neo-Gothic church in a...

The 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...

Festsaal means 'ballroom' and this venue near Kottbusser Tor has quite a refined edge despite the shabbiness of the interior, reinforced by a regular...

Housed in a ramshackle former bike shop beneath the S-Bahn Arches, Golden Gate's popularity is enjoying something of an upswing. Once home to a hit-and-miss...