New German Cuisine
Last updated on 06/29/2026
The 10 best restaurants for New German cuisine in Berlin
Beef roulade, veal cutlet and Koenigsberger Klopse no longer have to taste dusty at all. A young generation of Berlin cooks is reinterpreting German classics: seasonal, lighter and with plenty of attention to detail. The Michelin-starred Bieberbau in Wilmersdorf shows how creative German cuisine can be, while Kantine Kohlmann in Kreuzberg's Wrangelkiez casually shakes up familiar dishes. On Torstrasse in Mitte, Friedel Richter cooks unpretentiously and with a love of detail. We tried Klopse, checked the seasonality of the menus and looked at where tradition and modernity come together. Where does New German cuisine taste most exciting?
Ellen Mehrhoff-Roddewig
New German cuisine excites me because it rethinks the familiar in surprising ways. For this list I ate my way through modern interpretations of classics and paid attention to what makes good cooking: seasonal ingredients from the region, craftsmanship instead of gimmickry, a menu with a signature and restaurants where the atmosphere is just as coherent as the food on the plate.
The starred restaurant Bieberbau in Wilmersdorf (1 star Guide Michelin 2019) offers a creative German cuisine in the pleasant ambience of a stucco-framed half-timbered house.
In the heart of Friedrichshain, Umspannwerk Ost serves German cuisine that combines tradition and modernity. Homemade specialties meet refined accents in an industrial ambiance full of character.
The Gendarmerie at the Gendarmenmarkt in Mitte offers a tradition-conscious, German cuisine with creative accents and international influences.
The restaurant Das Lokal in Mitte offers a daily changing menu with dishes from the German cuisine.
Near Rosa-Luxemburg Platz, LUZII brings alpine cuisine to the pulse of the city. Here, traditional German dishes meet creative interpretations, refined with regional ingredients and a modern twist.
Kantine Kohlmann in Wrangelkiez interprets classic German dishes in a new and creative way.
The restaurant acht&dreissig on Oranienburger Straße presents modern German cuisine with international influences.
Unpretentious, seasonal and in love with details – this is how the restaurant Friedel Richter presents itself on the hip Torstraße in Berlin-Mitte.
The Lovis, located in a former prison, offers a special atmosphere with its vegetarian-vegan oriented cuisine.
Seasonal, fine dishes combined with high-quality wine in an intimate atmosphere - that's what distinguishes Otto.
