Neighbourhood Bar

Süss war gestern on Wühlischstraße has been a fixture in the Boxhagener Kiez for over fifteen years. Upstairs, a bar with sixties furniture, board games, and conversational volume; downstairs, a basement floor with DJs playing electro, house, and indie. As a cult scene pub with club operations, the venue covers both halves of a Friedrichshain evening.

Hidden behind an old door knocker on Goltzstrasse in Schöneberg is one of Berlin's most atmospheric cocktail bars. The Salut! Classic Bar combines Art Nouveau and Art Deco ambience with artisanal bar culture, classic recipes from the 1920s, and unique creations made from high-quality ingredients.

Vettern Bar took over the premises of the former Bar Mama on Hobrechtstraße in 2023 and has since become one of the most visited trendy pubs in Neukölln's Reuterkiez. Exposed concrete and flea market furniture, unpasteurized Svijany on tap from 3.60 euros, space for around one hundred guests. Among Berlin's iconic trendy pubs, it represents the Neukölln counterpart to the club mile.

Nathanja & Heinrich is located at Weichselstraße 44, a side street off Weserstraße, and is named after its two managing directors. Three rooms with high ceilings, a smoking and a non-smoking area, plus wooden benches outside against the wall. The sandwich of the day costs 8 Euros. A trendy bar in Neukölln for long evenings.

Red light, seventies armchairs and a round sofa with a view of the entire bar: Zu mir oder zu Dir in Lychener Straße is one of the smallest trendy bars in Helmholtzkiez and officially registered as a smoking bar. Cocktails from 8 Euros, never an entrance fee. As an iconic scene meeting point in Prenzlauer Berg, the bar works mainly because seats are shared here.

At Lychener Straße 15 in Prenzlauer Berg, Zu mir oder zu dir looks like a stranger's apartment: seventies sofas, red light, and changing color projections on the walls. Smoking is allowed inside, entry is free, a DJ plays on many nights, and guests get their drinks themselves at the bar. Among Berlin's trendy bars, this is the most laid-back.

Paule's Metal Eck on Krossener Straße is the metal pub of the Simon-Dach-Kiez: red-black dim light, skulls up to the ceiling, around ten draft beers, and cash payment. Billiards, foosball, and darts are in the back. Among Berlin's cult scene pubs, Metal Eck is the meeting point where the Berlin metal scene actually gathers.

In Moabit, away from the major tourist flows, Kallasch& is a program pub that combines live music, poetry slam, and open stage under one roof. Rustic, unplastered, and with a shared flat party atmosphere, this bar represents exactly what makes up Berlin's neighborhood culture.

For those who don't want to go straight home after work, Rotbart in Rixdorf is the perfect place. The bar on Böhmische Straße combines a cozy pub atmosphere with craft beer, high-quality cocktails, and a program that will keep you entertained all evening.