Nostalgic cut-out-and-keep-sheets, mouth-blown tree ornaments of glass and handmade storm lamps made from copper can be purchased at the stands on Gendarmenmarkt's christmas market.

The high-class gastronomic offer convinces: award-wining restaurants like the Lutter & Wegner, Brecht's Restaurant, Riehmers Restaurant or Enoiteca Il Calice pamper their guests in heated restaurant tents. The menus of these pop-up restaurants feature classics like goose legs, Viennese Schnitzel, boiled fillet, apple strudel and cut-up and sugared pancakes with raisins and apple sauce. But also some more unsual dishes like a Christmas Burger (sweet or spicy), a christmas punch with cinnamon licor, mulled beer or blood orange punch will tingle your taste buds. Reservations for the restaurant tents are recommended.

There is a show programe with choir singing, acrobats and fire artists and the ceremoniously illuminated Deutscher and Französischer Dom provide a breath-taking atmosphere, especially on New Year's Eve when the fireworks go off between the cupulas of these two churches.