Mitte

Bar 3 is located in a dead-end street at the end of Linienstraße, diagonally opposite Soho House and a few steps from the Volksbühne. A horseshoe-shaped bar counter occupies almost the entire room; seating is only available on stools and window sills. Kölsch is served in tall, slender glasses, and refills are provided until a coaster is placed on the glass.

The Chamäleon Theater occupies a 1906 ballroom in the first courtyard of the Hackesche Höfe and has been showcasing contemporary circus instead of classical variety programs since 2004. Performances take place at bistro tables, and the productions are entirely non-verbal. For a variety evening in Berlin, this means world-class acrobatics, but without a compère and glitter costumes.

The heart of Wilde Matilde in Nikolaiviertel is a bar built from a historic chain carousel. Additionally, there's the Kaisersaal in old Berlin coffee house style, an in-house patisserie, and on weekends, the Berlin Varieté Show with Can-Can, aerial artistry, and live saxophone. Varieté in Berlin with Eisbein and no aftershow party.

Steffen Bogs runs a spice manufactory with around 174 products on Rungestraße in Mitte, whose focus is revealed by its name: eleven cinnamon items from Ceylon to Vietnam and eighteen pepper varieties from fermented Kampot to Patagonia. The blends are created in small batches, and in the shop, customers can smell, compare, and taste before buying.

Ick bin Berliner gathers on Rathausstrasse beside the Red City Hall what Berlin workshops produce: over six hundred articles from gin through pralines to currywurst in a jar. Nothing enters the range until the team has visited the workshop behind it, the whole assortment is certified organic, and hotels and firms have their own editions put together here.

A starred restaurant now works in the room that held the first kebab shop in East Berlin: Bandol sur mer on Torstrasse serves a menu for 184 euros, in an interior that comes in part from the former Central Committee of the GDR. The head chef Andreas Saul has cooked here since 2010 and has also held the lease since 2018.

The Deutsche Kinemathek holds the estate of Marlene Dietrich: around 300,000 sheets of paper, 16,500 photographs and 3,300 textile objects. It also keeps audiovisual material on almost 80,000 film titles. Since the move from Potsdamer Platz the institution has worked in the E-Werk on Mauerstraße, a former substation with around 4,000 square metres.

A small café with big ambitions hides on Brunnenstraße in Berlin-Mitte: MOD ROCKERS Roastery & Bagels roasts its own coffee, bakes fresh bagels, and radiates the relaxed energy of a true regular's café.

Located in Neukölln, directly on Hermannstraße, Isla Coffee has been a staple for specialty coffee and sustainable trendy breakfast for years. This zero-waste café combines vegetarian brunch culture with a consistent ecological ethos, without losing sight of enjoyment.

Located on Brückenstraße in Berlin-Mitte, BESH serves vegetarian and vegan cuisine that brings the flavors of the Silk Road to Mitte. Homemade falafel, satisfying bowls, and sugar-free brownies meet a philosophy that does not see health and enjoyment as opposites.