Reading

The spacious theater bookstore Einar & Bert in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg is the only Berlin bookstore focusing on theater, dance, music, and art.

Berlin's first cat café is located in Neukölln's Körnerkiez and offers perhaps the most relaxed remedy for any gloomy morning after. Organic homemade cakes, strong coffee, and three cats setting the pace - here, Skadi, Ylvi, and Odin call the shots.

The Dorotheenstädtische Buchhandlung, located opposite the Moabit district court, has been delighting its customers for years, not with a chic ambiance or a latte macchiato island, but with genuine care for readers and true expertise.

Novels in all languages, audiobooks, specialist literature e.g. from the fields of computer science and natural sciences, as well as films and music of all genres - Dussmann, the large culture department store on Friedrichstraße, is a true mecca for culture enthusiasts!

In Volkspark Rehberge, in the heart of Berlin's Wedding district, a listed open-air stage from the 1930s transforms every summer into one of the city's most atmospheric open-air cinemas. Here, you sit under the open sky, surrounded by old trees, watching films on an inflatable screen.

Since 2000, one of Berlin's most enduring after-work venues has stood on Lützowplatz in Tiergarten: the Trompete. On Thursday evenings, the elegant cellar lounge transforms into a place where the end of the workday is celebrated exuberantly, with radioeins DJs, soul, house, and cocktails deep into the night.

The taz canteen (formerly taz-Café) on Friedrichstraße is not just named that, but is actually connected to the editorial office of taz.

Pro qm deserves the label 'most stylish book dealer' in all of Berlin.

Spending the whole day with a good book in the café – a Sunday at Frankfurter Tor could hardly be cozier.

The summer programme in the open-air stage Weißensee offers a mixture of open-air cinema, children's cinema and puppet theatre.

In Wedding, directly at Leopoldplatz, the Schiller Library with its youth media floor offers much more than just bookshelves: Across three levels and 1,800 m², children and young people encounter Berlin's most diverse media offerings, from consoles to mangas and a reading lounge.

Feasting and reading are paramount at Café Bilderbuch in Berlin-Schöneberg.

At Hennwack Antiquarian Bookshop in Berlin-Steglitz, books are the focus! Hennwack is Berlin's largest antiquarian bookshop and also offers a small café.

A good book, delicious cookies and coffee – what more do you need for Kreuzberg's "LeseGlück"?

In the backyard of an old factory in Moabit, between brick walls and train tracks, the Kulturfabrik Moabit's Open-Air Cinema shows films every summer that are rarely seen on a screen in Berlin. Admission is free, the atmosphere unique.

Shakespeare and Sons is a bookstore with an attached café in Berlin-Friedrichshain.

The small literary café on Bornholmer Straße in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg functions as a reading stage, mouthpiece, and creative center for the Berlin publisher periplaneta.

The lunch variety of Muse Restaurant is really diverse and a real lunch treat with various gourmet sandwiches, burgers, salads and soups!

Muse Restaurant not only entices with gourmet sandwiches, burgers, and salads for lunch but also offers a Merry Christmuse Supperclub on December 15th.