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Every good venue has its speciality, the dish, drink or detail that sets it apart, and Berlin rewards those who seek them out. A speciality might be a secret recipe, a rare ingredient or a signature experience found nowhere else in the city. This tag collects Berlin locations known for something distinctive.
Restaurants build their reputation on a single standout plate, bars mix cocktails you cannot get elsewhere, and shops stock goods sourced with unusual care. From a bakery's famous loaf to a museum's rare holding, these specialities give the city its texture. Seeking them out is a fine way to explore beyond the obvious.
Browse the venues below to track down a speciality across Berlin, from signature dishes to one of a kind finds.
Marsano ties its bouquets by season rather than by a fixed recipe and has grown part of its flowers on a field of its own outside Berlin since 2019. Around 35 people work in the house south of the Gendarmenmarkt, and beside the floristry there are vintage furniture pieces, an Everlasting Collection and changing shows of young Berlin art.
An Art Nouveau building in Charlottenburg, whose interior is nothing less than a homage to the Paris of the Roaring Twenties: The Provocateur Hotel combines burlesque aesthetics with Berlin nightlife attitude, enchanting both hotel guests and locals alike.
Blumen- und Gartenkunst on Alt-Moabit puts plants, bouquets and art objects out onto the pavement and sorts the flowers inside by colour. The range is put together afresh each morning. Andreas Tunger and Thomas Tunger-Schnur have run the house for almost thirty years and join floristry to garden design, from a planted courtyard to a roof garden.
The elegant restaurant Austernbank at Gendarmenmarkt offers a turn of the year "like the great Gatsby" in the style of the 20s with a four-course New Year's Eve dinner and show.
Just a few steps from Gendarmenmarkt, Austernbank resides in the vaulted strongroom of the former Disconto Bank. This elegant fish restaurant combines historic architecture with sophisticated French cuisine and is one of the capital's most stylish addresses for special evenings.
Florale Welten has existed since the late nineties, and in 2008 the house was named flower shop of the year at the Taspo Awards. After spells on Nuernberger Strasse and Rankestrasse the business now sits in Halensee, with a showroom, a workshop counter and a city garden of its own. The flowers are fairly traded and come mostly from the region.
At the Berlin Icebar on Spandauer Straße, the temperature is minus ten degrees Celsius, with over 40,000 kilograms of natural ice used in its construction. The bar, seating, sculptures, and even the glasses are made of ice, and a poncho and gloves are included with the ticket. Among Berlin's winter leisure activities, this is the only one where the cold is the main attraction.
Flower & Art in Wedding is not a shop to walk into but a workshop that works strictly to order: event flowers for companies, weddings with the whole table decoration and bouquets by advance order. The costing starts from the budget, with the figures split into fresh flowers on one side and service and hire items on the other.
At Monbijouplatz in Berlin-Mitte, right next to Monbijoupark, Dae Mon serves so-called "Open Minded Cuisine": Korean-Japanese cuisine with European influences, staged so atmospherically that an evening here begins the moment you step inside.