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With roots dating back to 1993, La Mambita at Kolonnenstraße 29 is Berlin's salsa dance school with the longest tradition, bringing LA-style to the city in 1999. In Schöneberg, Salsa LA, NY, and Cubana are offered as drop-in classes in a 150-square-meter hall. For salsa classes in Berlin, this means: no registration needed, just drop by for a trial lesson for 10 Euros.

Heavy velvet curtains, Art Deco interior, and a former London Beefeater who heralds the ceremony daily at 6 PM: The Curtain Club at the Ritz-Carlton on Potsdamer Platz in Mitte is Berlin's most elegant cocktail bar, with an unmistakable homage to the Roaring Twenties.

Since 2018, La Candela Salsa has specialized in Salsa Cubana, teaching right next to Hamburger Bahnhof, five minutes from Hauptbahnhof. The salsa course in Berlin-Mitte progresses through five levels with over 100 hours, covering Timba, Son, and Rueda, with instruction in English. For beginners, this means: confidently on the dance floor after a six-hour Beginners Course.

Deep in Grunewald, in the Dahlem district, the Châlet Suisse is hidden behind old pines and deciduous trees. This rustic wooden house combines Swiss mountain romance with Berlin forest air, and anyone who has once taken a seat by the crackling fireplace knows why this restaurant has been attracting regulars for decades.

The Grace Restaurant at Hotel Zoo on Kurfürstendamm offers a glamorous setting for a romantic candlelight dinner. Lovers enjoy Asian and European fusion cuisine in a very stylish ambiance here.

Located on northern Friedrichstraße, the Friedrichstadt-Palast features one of the world's largest theater stages with an approximately 24-meter-wide portal, along with 1,899 seats and a retractable water basin holding about 160,000 liters. Since 2020, the 1984 building has been a protected monument in all its aspects, attracting over 700,000 guests annually.

On Rathausstraße near Alexanderplatz, there's a tapas bar that avoids clichés: ham carved from the bone, croquetas, and vermouth, served at wooden barrels and at the counter.

A few steps from Nollendorfplatz, over four hundred board games line the shelves at Boardroom. The team will gladly help you choose a suitable game and explain the rules. Billing is time-based, starting from 2.50 Euros per hour, with no minimum or maximum duration. Coffee, tarte flambée, and homemade cookies are also available.

Since 1992, a 1912 Spiegeltent has stood in Wilmersdorf, where cabaret, chanson, and comedy meet table seating. The BAR JEDER VERNUNFT combines dinner and stage so naturally that they belong together.

Le Faubourg is located on Augsburger Straße in Berlin's City West, just a few steps from Kurfürstendamm. Since 2023, chef Lukas Hackenberg has been cooking modern French bistronomy here, with a two-course lunch menu available for 21 Euros. Among French restaurants in Berlin, this is the address for Bauhaus elegance without stiffness.

The Theater des Westens on Kantstrasse opened in 1896 to plans by Bernhard Sehring and combines a neo-baroque auditorium with a stage tower shaped like a medieval keep. In 1961 the German-language premiere of My Fair Lady ran here for two years and paved the way for the musical in Germany. Today around 1.600 seats fill the house.

Authentic Spanish tapas cuisine can be found at Luisenstraße 41 in Mitte: an extensive menu, Spanish wines, and a space that gets loud and lively in the evenings.

At the western tip of Volkspark Friedrichshain lies the Fountain of Fairytales: a cascade, a round fountain, and a semicircular arcade, framed by hedges and stone benches. Ten figures from the Brothers Grimm fairytales stand around the basin, along with fourteen stone animals on the balustrade. There is no entrance fee to visit the facility.

At Potsdamer Platz, a tiny, few-centimeter-tall chef cooks directly on the plate: Le Petit Chef combines 3D projection with a multi-course menu, transforming dinner into a show.

From November 16, 2026, to January 10, 2027, a 600-square-meter real ice rink will be located under the dome of the Center at Potsdamer Platz. Skate rental and ice-skating aids are available on site, and a small Christmas market with eight stalls is attached. Thanks to the roofing, this ice rink in Berlin-Mitte is weather-protected and can be used well even in rain or snow.

In Wilmersdorf, just a stone's throw from Ku'damm, the Provocateur Bar celebrates the Golden Twenties with red velvet, dimmed lights, and cocktails that go far beyond standard bar offerings. Burlesque aesthetics and precise mixology are united under one roof here.

A Chinese pagoda from 1770 in Sanssouci Park, plus baroque costumes and dinner with Frederick the Great: The Drachenhaus restaurant and café combines Prussian history with cuisine that takes the location seriously.

Renzo Piano's Theater am Potsdamer Platz opened in 1999, seats 1,754 guests, and has been home to Cirque du Soleil's first permanent European show since 2025. Behind the 35-meter-high glass facade lies the grand staircase, and every year during the Berlinale, the venue transforms into the Berlinale Palast, the main screening location for the film festival.

At 368 meters, the Berlin TV Tower at Alexanderplatz is Germany's tallest structure. Its observation deck is at 203 meters, and the elevator takes about 40 seconds to get there. One floor higher, since June 2025, the Sphere restaurant rotates under the direction of Tim Raue. For a view over Berlin, this is the city's most central address.

In the backyard of Cuvrystraße in Kreuzberg lies the Ratibor Theater: Berlin's premier address for improvisation theater, home stage of the Gorillas, and for decades a meeting point for the national and international improv scene.

In the heart of Kreuzberg, the sixty-six-meter-high Kreuzberg rises, and the Viktoriapark surrounding it connects a twenty-four-meter-high waterfall with Schinkel's National Monument at the summit. In addition, there is an animal enclosure, a rose garden, a vineyard on the northern slope, and a beer garden. All of this costs nothing to enter.

Picoteo Tapas Bar has opened its second chapter in Charlottenburg: small dishes for sharing, Spanish wines, and a space where traditional and modern elements coexist.

No party train, no sash chaos: For a bachelorette party on the Finnfloat sauna raft on Müggelsee in Köpenick, the girls sweat, jump, and toast in a Scandinavian way. Wellness on the water, far away from the hustle and bustle of Berlin.

BeachMitte at Nordbahnhof calls itself Europe's largest inner-city beach facility: over 35 sand courts in summer, 17 heated courts in three air-supported domes during the winter half-year. Additionally, there's Adventure Golf, Bavarian curling, and the MountMitte high ropes course with over 90 obstacles. For a team event in Berlin, the modules can be combined to fill a whole day.

The Wintergarten Varieté on Potsdamer Straße continues a name that began on Friedrichstraße in 1888, where it hosted the world's first commercial film screening in 1895. The current venue opened in 1992, accommodates nearly 500 guests, and presents its own productions of acrobatics, music, and comedy in a hall with a starry sky.