Pub

Opposite the Volksbühne, Volksbar operates a screen of approximately 24 square meters, the largest a Berlin pub offers for the Sunday crime show. Around fifty guests can fit in front of it, and there are cocktails, draft beer, and a foosball table in the basement. If you want to watch Tatort here, you should arrive half an hour before the film.

Kvartira 62 in Wrangelkiez is furnished like a 1920s private apartment as a Russian bar: heavy curtains, old dressers, candles, and well-worn sofas. The menu offers pelmeni, a large selection of vodka and craft beer, an evening costs about fifteen euros. As a 'Tatort' pub, it feels more like a living room than a public viewing event.

An old-school corner pub on Yorckstraße in Kreuzberg, with draught beer, pavement tables and no closing time. Prices stay in the single-digit range, the bar itself is the real meeting point, and anyone arriving from Gleisdreieck Park or from under the railway arches will find a seat and a freshly tapped beer at any hour of the night.

Jäger & Lustig is a restaurant at the eastern end of Grünberger Straße, where Friedrichshain meets Warschauer Straße: inside, a beer parlor with historic leaded windows, outside, a natural beer garden under chestnut trees. The kitchen serves Berlin classics like Hackepeter for 13 Euros and also specializes in game and goose.

Ausspanne is a traditional Old Berlin pub located in the family-run Hotel Kastanienhof, right in the Mitte section of Kastanienallee. The name dates back to the era of teamsters, but the cuisine is modern: Head chef Tom Dörpinghaus reinterprets Berlin classics like calf's liver for 23 Euros and changes the menu approximately every six weeks.

The FC Magnet Bar in Berlin-Mitte has been an institution among Berlin football pubs for over two decades: public viewing on a big screen, two foosball tables in the basement, and an atmosphere where goals are celebrated with strangers.

The Charlottenburg original at Stuttgarter Platz was opened by the Schneider family after the First World War and has borne its current name since 1974. Becks, Köpenicker, Erdinger, and the in-house Hecht Pils are on tap, along with Unertl wheat beer, wines from Reibold, meatballs (bouletten), lard bread, a Wurlitzer on the wall, and free Wi-Fi.

The Celtic Cottage in Steglitz opened in 1979 and is one of Germany's oldest Irish pubs: nine draft beers, around seventy whisky varieties, steel darts, and a heated terrace with over sixty seats. The pub shows the 'Tatort' crime show on a big screen in the back room. Whoever guesses the culprit and submits their tip in time gets half a draft beer on the house.

Schöneberger Weltlaterne is an old Berlin pub in the heart of the Rainbow Kiez: dark wood, candlelight, antique furniture, and a small terrace on Motzstraße. The house specialty is the homemade giant cabbage roll with bacon sauce for 18.90 Euros, complemented by Königsberger Klopse, Berliner Eisbein, and its own range of vegetarian dishes.

Berlin's wackiest experience pub has been located in Charlottenburg since 1971: Das Klo on Leibnizstraße, just around the corner from Ku'damm, serves beer in urinal bottles, sends tables flying into the air, and greets its guests with a jet of water. Those who enter here know what's coming. Mostly, at least.

Zum Schusterjungen is a corner establishment on Danziger Straße that has existed under changing names since the 1920s and has grown from an East German workers' pub into an institution of the Helmholtz Kiez. It serves traditional Berlin home cooking, from Eisbein for 14.50 Euros to the namesake rye roll with Harz cheese and lard.

Hidden in the Europa-Center on Tauentzien, right in the heart of Charlottenburg, this Irish Pub is one of Berlin's most famous live music venues. Its 36-meter-long bar, daily bands, and an international crowd make it a reliable hotspot when the evening is far from over.

The Milchbar on Manteuffelstraße in Kreuzberg has been one of Berlin's most legendary football pubs since 1988. Rock'n'Roll, foosball, pinball, and public viewing under surreal underwater murals make this place a true Kreuzberg original.

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.

Right next to the Uber Arena on Uber Platz in Friedrichshain, The Irish Pub Berlin offers everything that makes a good Irish pub: daily live music from local bands, freshly poured Guinness, and hearty pub classics. If you're looking for Ireland in Berlin, you'll find it here.

The pub on Seestrasse in Wedding operates without a closing time and keeps prices in the single-digit range. Beer is tapped, and there are shots and long drinks; take-away is also available. Located between Volkspark Rehberge, Schillerpark, and Virchow-Klinikum, the place is equally the nearest bar for both locals and night shift workers.

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.

The FC Magnet Bar on Veteranenstraße was founded in 2000 as the clubhouse of FC Magnet Mitte and remains a pub with pennants on the wall and a foosball table in the basement. Five televisions and a projector screen are spread across the rooms; outside, tables are set near Weinbergspark. For Sunday crime dramas in Mitte, this means: come early, no reservations are taken.

Located at Hackescher Markt in Mitte, one of Berlin's largest pub institutions has been thriving since 1992: The Kilkenny Irish Pub brings live music under the S-Bahn viaduct four evenings a week, combining Irish hospitality with authentic pub character.

Bar 11 on Wiener Straße in Kreuzberg is the classic local pub for all who truly want to feel football. Bundesliga, Champions League, Hertha and FC St. Pauli on several HD screens, plus smoke, soccer and an honest crowd.

On Schönleinstraße, dolls, old bicycles, and instruments hang on the walls, a foosball table stands in the middle, and the drink selection ranges from beer to cocktails at affordable prices. The pub has been running for decades without a closing time, appears in Sven Regener's novel Herr Lehmann, and is considered by many to be the last stop of a long evening.

Located in the heart of Oranienplatz in Kreuzberg, The Harp Irish Pub serves Irish hospitality with authentic Guinness, live music, and comedy nights. Those looking for an authentic Irish pub in Berlin will almost inevitably find themselves here.

Dicke Wirtin is the Berlin pub at Savignyplatz, named after the landlady Anna Stanscheck, who was known for her stews and for her fondness for students from the nearby art college. Today the Drees family runs the place, with its own butchery, nine different beers on tap and a menu that goes by the name Dit is(s)t Berlin.

Diener Tattersall combines two Berlin stories in one name: the Tattersall des Westens riding hall from 1893 and heavyweight boxer Franz Diener, who took over the establishment in 1954. He also created the picture wall with around five hundred portraits, and the house specialty to this day is the Boulette, finely minced and mildly seasoned, with potato salad or a fried egg.

Anyone looking for an Irish pub with genuine live music in Wedding will find it at Leopoldplatz: Tipperary Berlin on Triftstraße combines Irish hospitality with a packed weekly program, a huge sun terrace, and bands that create a great atmosphere on Saturdays.