Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg

polli überall in Körtestraße in Kreuzberg is both a workshop and a shop. Many home accessories are sewn on site, and there is also stationery, natural cosmetics, and gift boxes with a Berlin theme.

For Easter, the Intercultural Rose Scent Garden in Gleisdreieck Park in Kreuzberg transforms into a place for families: On Easter Sunday and Easter Monday, there will be searching, celebrating, and communal cake eating, while the park itself provides the perfect backdrop with its sprawling meadows and old railway relics.

On the quiet Körtestraße in Kreuzberg, Café Freudberg hides behind a cake counter that is second to none: vegan cakes, homemade waffles, and breakfast with organic, regional ingredients make this small café a fixed address for all who want to eat plant-based and well.

Not far from Frankfurter Tor in Friedrichshain, Berlin's most honest sauna address is hidden in the basement of an old GDR building. Covering approximately 400 square meters, Kiezsauna offers Finnish sweating, a bio-sauna, and a steam bath, along with a genuine neighborhood atmosphere and fair prices.

A microbrewery as a football pub: Hops & Barley in Friedrichshain, near Boxhagener Platz, combines home-brewed craft beer with a genuine fan pub atmosphere. If you're looking for Bundesliga, Champions League, and fresh draught pilsner all under one roof, this is the place to be.

Tagesbar 69 on Warschauer Straße in Friedrichshain represents what Berlin's pub culture truly still has to offer: genuine neighborhood atmosphere, affordable drinks, and a good game of billiards. If you want to truly relax after work, this is the place to be.

Amidst the bars and clubs in Friedrichshain, Restaurant Schneeweiß proudly champions Alpine cuisine. Austrian classics, modernly interpreted, an all-white interior, and a clientele as diverse as the district itself.

At Yorckstraße 15 in Kreuzberg, master confectioner Andreas Minsch bakes up to 20 different cakes and tarts daily, following traditional craftsmanship. The street café, with a view into the bakery, has long been a firmly established institution in Berlin's confectionery scene.

The James June summer garden on Karl-Marx-Allee in Friedrichshain is a heritage-protected piece of East Modernism that, after extensive renovation, will reopen in summer 2026 as a retro beer garden with a restaurant.

The Michelberger Hotel on Warschauer Straße in Friedrichshain is arguably Berlin's most renowned design hotel with character: a former factory building from 1903, combining raw materials, handcrafted furniture, and an organic gastronomic concept with genuine Berlin coolness.